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Even Floyd's couldn't go on forever
Rod Bernard is one of a lot of folk who mourn the closing of Floyd’s Record Shop—an Acadiana institution if ever there was one. Floyd Soileau’s record shop and his Flat Town Music Co. founded in 19...
Dec 30, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 44 44 recommendations | email to a friend
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Long time between Christmases
It was just a week before Christmas in 1940 when several hundred young men from Lafayette, New Iberia, Breaux Bridge, and other parts of Acadiana boarded a train that would take them to Fort Blandi...
Dec 16, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 52 52 recommendations | email to a friend
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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 | 54 54 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...
Nov 25, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 41 41 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 | 62 62 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 | 53 53 recommendations | email to a friend
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Bradshaw’s Best: It Began With a Fiddle
By Jim Bradshaw 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 ...
Oct 24, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 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 | 56 56 recommendations | email to a friend
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In search of 'Didee's Duck
In the early 1900s, Charles Adrian "Didee" Lastrapes started serving baked duck, baked chicken and gumbo in Opelousas. Newspaper stories described his place as an innocuous coffee shop. Local legen...
Oct 07, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 25 25 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 | 57 57 recommendations | email to a friend
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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 | 14 14 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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