Melodious melodions
I had the pleasure earlier this month of sitting down for a long discussion with two of Acadiana's top accordion makers as a part of a UL-Lafayette oral history program.
Randy Falcon, who began ma...
C’est Vrai: Melodious melodions I had the pleasure earlier this month of sitting down for a long discussion with two of Acadiana’s top accordion makers as a part of a UL-Lafayette oral history program.
Randy Falcon, who began mak...
Dueling sheriffs in St. Landry
Gunshots were the inevitable result when two men claimed to be Sheriff of St. Landry Parish in the turbulent days after the Civil War.
Deputy Sheriff S. Mayo was shot and killed in Opelousas in Se...
A coffin in a tree?
On Dec. 22, 1900, the Board of Control of the Louisiana State Penitentiary bought several hundred acres of land between New Iberia and Jeanerette to use as a prison farm.
They named it, somewhat f...
Why is it For-ked? It doesn't keep me awake at night, but one of the things that I've puzzled over from time to time is why we say when we come to a split in the road that it is forked, one syllable, but that when we...
Remembering Charlene
Thursday, August 11, was the anniversary of the death in 1959 of Charlene Richard, a little girl whom many people call "the Little Cajun Saint." Her story is known across the globe. Miraculous cure...
A miraculous cure in Grand Coteau
In 1866, Mary Wilson confounded her doctors and rose from her death bed at the Sacred Heart Convent at Grand Coteau. She said her cure was a miracle, worked by John Berchmans, a seminarian who had ...
C’est Vrai: Bedon kept an
uncommon court Some years ago I received a copy of an account written by Montfort Hull of Baton Rouge describing his encounter with one of Lafayette’s most colorful citizens in the early 1900s.
He was G.A. “Bedon...
C’est Vrai: The home of LA
French music Why does so much Louisiana French music come from the prairies of Evangeline Parish and western St. Landry?
Musical traditions such as the Saturday morning broadcast from Fred’s Lounge in Mamou are...
We do love to argue
As we celebrate the Fourth of July, a question as old as the nation itself once again comes to the forefront of our national debate: What does it mean to be an American?
Immigration issues are one...
C’est Vrai: We do love to argue As we celebrate the Fourth of July, a question as old as the nation itself once again comes to the forefront of our national debate: What does it mean to be an American?
Immigration issues are one ...
