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Estherwood and the pirate
Estherwood had two names before it became Estherwood: Tortue, after the Attakapas chief Celestine La Tortue, and Coulee Trief, for Jean-Baptiste Trief, a mysterious man believed to have been one of...
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‘Fiscal Cliff, Part One’ Is Over
By DAN JUNEAU Special from LABI BATON ROUGE — “Fiscal Cliff, Part One” is over. President Obama wins the round. He wanted to raise the income tax rates on the top two percent of taxpayers and he go...
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Little concern for justice in New Orleans!

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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 | 50 50 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 | 55 55 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...
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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 | 44 44 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 | 153 153 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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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 | 12 12 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...
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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 | 27 27 recommendations | email to a friend
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