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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....
Aug 05, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 51 51 recommendations | email to a friend
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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. ...
Jul 29, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 48 48 recommendations | email to a friend
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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...
Jul 22, 2012 | 1 1 comments | 49 49 recommendations | email to a friend
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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...
Jul 15, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 33 33 recommendations | email to a friend
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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...
Jun 24, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 42 42 recommendations | email to a friend
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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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Happy Fats heard nationwide
Louisiana French music began to get a wide national audience in the 1970s after masters of the craft like Bois Sec Ardoin and Canray Fontenot, the Balfa Brothers, Nathan Abshire, and others were in...
Jan 29, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 60 60 recommendations | email to a friend
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How many 'original' colonies?
Revisionist historians have been telling us since the Revolution that American history began in the 13 "original" Atlantic colonies and that hardy, English-speaking pioneers pushing across the moun...
Jan 22, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 56 56 recommendations | email to a friend
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De Flaugeac a man for all seasons
Jean Lafitte was probably the most famous French speaker at the Battle of New Orleans, fought 197 years ago today. But there were some others — mostly former Napoleonic soldiers — who fought well a...
Jan 08, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 65 65 recommendations | email to a friend
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