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You can plant roses in late summer and fall
By Allen Owings LSU AgCenter horticulturist You may not think of late summer and fall as a time for rose gardening. Sometimes, however, roses will actually establish better when planted in fall tha...
Sep 05, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 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 | 64 64 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...
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Plus ça change
More than a third of the nation's oysters come from Louisiana waters and I think the oyster promotion people are dead right when they proclaim, "The Louisiana oyster. There's nothing quite like it....
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V12 program kept school open
During World War II, Joel Fletcher, president of Southwestern Louisiana Institute (UL today), was forced to consider closing the school as more and more young men left the campus to go off to war. ...
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Fabacher influential rice farmer
Roberts Cove is known as the home of a substantial settlement of German emigres who helped to create the commercial rice industry in southwest Louisiana. But they were not the only Germans to settl...
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Duson brothers were pioneer builders
C. C. (Curley) Duson and his brother, William W. Duson, would likely be remembered in Acadiana even if they hadn't been colorful characters. They founded four towns--Crowley, Iota, Eunice, and Mamo...
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Perry provided river crossing
The act that created Vermilion Parish in 1844 said the parish seat should be located on the west side of the Vermilion River, no more than one-half mile from a place called Perry's Bridge, today th...
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Louisiana Story a movie classic
"Louisiana Story," filmed in south Louisiana in 1946 and 1947 may be the most poetic industrial film ever made. Helen van Dongen, who was film editor for the movie, called it a "ballet of the roug...
Jun 17, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 49 49 recommendations | email to a friend
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Handicapping Field Day
The first athletic contests at Southwest Louisiana Industrial Institute (UL Lafayette today) were annual Field Days begun in 1904, in which SLII and area high schools competed in track and field ...
Apr 29, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 77 77 recommendations | email to a friend
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A birthday in St. Landry
The St. Landry Parish town of Washington was settled in 1720 and claims to be the second oldest settled place in Louisiana, behind Natchitoches, which was established in 1714 and is said to be the ...
Apr 01, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 53 53 recommendations | email to a friend
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Who's offended by 'c' word?
There's a minor flap going on because a local singer uses the "c" word to describe himself and his friends in the lyrics to one of his songs and the former head of CODOFIL doesn't like it. I'm n...
Mar 18, 2012 | 2 2 comments | 50 50 recommendations | email to a friend
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