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Remembering Mary Alice
It's hard to believe that today marks the tenth anniversary of the death of Mary Alice Fontenot, the newspaperwoman, teacher, and storyteller who knew and was known by practically everyone in Acad...
May 12, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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Cinqo de Mayo and Louisiana
Cinqo de Mayo, the fifth of May, commemorates the Mexican army's defeat of French forces at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, It was a huge victory for the Mexicans who were outnumbered two to ...
May 05, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
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Smokestack marks old plantation
Midway between Jeanerette and Baldwin on Hwy. 182, part of an old smokestack rises forlornly above the cane fields. It once stood above what some historians say was the finest sugar factory in Lou...
Apr 28, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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The death of Guillaume Barjeau
In October 1788, César Archinard, Edward Murphy, and François Brunet were sent to the Bayou Chicot community by Nicolas Forstall, commandant of the Poste des Opelousas, to investigate the sudden de...
Apr 18, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
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Adventure of a pioneering priest
Father William Teurlngs labored for 62 years in southwest Louisiana and was a giant in the early history of the Lafayette diocese. A Dutchman, he came to Louisiana in 1895 to become assistant pasto...
Apr 14, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Italian feuds brought immigrants here
Feuding at home brought many Italians to Louisiana in the middle 1850s. A good number of them used ties to the old country to establish themselves in food distribution businesses, first in New Orl...
Apr 07, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Session to Host Controversial Agenda
Budget, tax plan will be joined by other issues BATON ROUGE — The regular session that convenes Monday will have no shortage of high-profile issues, beginning with Gov. Bobby Jindal's ambiti...
Apr 03, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Egg knocking serious business
"Pacques Pacques" means "Easter Easter" in French, but it is also the name in Louisiana of a contest that began innocently enough but that has become a major tradition in some Louisiana communities...
Mar 31, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 20 20 recommendations | email to a friend
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Lafitte wasn't only pirate
Jean Lafitte was the most notorious — and successful — of the pirates operating from Louisiana in the early 1800s, but he wasn't the only one. A federal grand jury in New Orleans reported in July 1...
Mar 10, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 28 28 recommendations | email to a friend
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Saving the Southern Club
The news that an attempt is being made to restore the old Southern Club will bring a lot of memories to folks who remember what some consider the heyday of Louisiana's distinctive swamp pop music. ...
Mar 03, 2013 | 1 1 comments | 30 30 recommendations | email to a friend
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Two districts formed Acadiana
Most of what we now call Acadiana was once divided into two districts set up by the first government of the Louisiana territory. The Attakapas district included what is now Lafayette, St. Martin, ...
Feb 24, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
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Home Front gave much in WWII
Many slogans were associated with World War II but the unspoken slogan had to be "Waste not, want not." It seemed that the citizenry was constantly reminded that everything they'd once thrown away ...
Feb 17, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 25 25 recommendations | email to a friend
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