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St. Nick celebration changed over years
Before Roberts Cove began throwing its annual Germanfest in 1995, the St. Nicholas celebration each Dec. 6 was its most publicized tradition and is one that is still held dear in the community. It...
Dec 09, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 134 134 recommendations | email to a friend
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Glory days of old
The invitation of UL's Ragin' Cajuns to a second bowl game in as many years rekindles stories of earlier days, when the little school then known as Southwest Louisiana Institute had a bit of glory ...
Dec 02, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
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Sailor was among first casualties
The governor and a host of other dignitaries were at the graveside when 23-year-old Sidney Gerald Larriviere was buried in November 1941 in Youngsville. He had been killed a month earlier in the fr...
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Cajuns in Texas
Here is the way I heard the story about why only the illiterate Heeberts (formerly Heberts), Comos (nee Comeaux) and Whites (once LeBlancs) got to east Texas. It seems there was a big group of Caju...
Nov 11, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
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Voting tales
It is said that politics is the most-followed spectator sport in Louisiana — though lots of people would argue about the "spectator" part. At least in the good old days, everyone participated, some...
Nov 04, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 147 147 recommendations | email to a friend
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Where was Bowie knife made?
Campbell's Ferry isn't much more than a memory now, but it has been argued that the river crossing in Vermilion Parish is the real birthplace of Jim Bowie's legendary knife. The ferry (name...
Oct 28, 2012 | 1 1 comments | 57 57 recommendations | email to a friend
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It began with a fiddle
You'd never guess it today, when half the world comes to south Louisiana to listen to the sounds of a Cajun fiddle, zydeco accordion, or saxophone wailing out a swamp pop lick, but there wasn't a g...
Oct 21, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 60 60 recommendations | email to a friend
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Knapp left farm legacy
Seaman A. Knapp made his name as a pioneer in agricultural instruction in southwest Louisiana and is memorialized in Washington, D.C., as one of the earliest proponents of what has grown into the c...
Sep 23, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
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Chenieres have romantic history
The word cheniere is unique to the Cajun coast, as are the little islands it describes. The word comes from the Acadian word chene, meaning "oak," and describes groves of live oak trees bent by the...
Sep 16, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 62 62 recommendations | email to a friend
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Bayou Plaquemine Brûlée may have been first
The earliest European community in what is now Acadia Parish was probably on Bayou Plaquemine Brulee. Some historians say this was the earliest American settlement in south Louisiana (the other ear...
Sep 02, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 67 67 recommendations | email to a friend
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A sissy goes to prison, La. rain, the Badger and Drew
"I will never refer to my daughter as a victim," said Nancy Ann Rowe, in a prepared statement that was read by a family friend Friday after Brandon Scott Lavergne, who admitted to killing Michaela ...
Aug 17, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
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St. Mary native raced Nellie Bly around the world
When Nellie Bly died in 1922, the New York Evening Herald called her "the best reporter in America." She pioneered investigative journalism, feigning insanity to get herself committed to an asylum...
Aug 12, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 68 68 recommendations | email to a friend
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