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...
C’est Vrai: 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...
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...
C’est Vrai: 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 (nam...
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...
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...
C’est Vrai: 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...
C’est Vrai: Exploding fireball caused big scare At a few minutes after 10 a.m. on Oct. 15, 1955 — during a period when Cold War tensions were building to their highest and little people from outer space were all the rage — something brilliant, l...
C’est Vrai: 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...
C’est Vrai: Williams was cypress king From just after the Civil War until the 1920s, cypress was king in south Louisiana and during much of that time Frank B. Williams was the cypress lumber king. His cypress mill at Patterson was the ...
C’est Vrai: Knapp left farm legacy Seaman A. Knapp made his name as a pioneer in agricultural instruction in southwest Louisiana and is memorialized in Washington, D.C., as one of the earliest proponents of what has grown into the c...
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...
