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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...
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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...
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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...
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Olympian names in Acadiana
A boy would likely be laughed out of the first grade today -- or certainly need a nickname -- if he was named the same as his great-grandpa, but it was once the fashion for Acadian families to give...
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'Little red church' has long history
The "little red church," on Hwy. 182 between Opelousas and Sunset has no pastor and no Sunday services but still has a large congregation that meets once each year. It's history dates to the year...
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Gray gloves changed a custom
War leaves lasting legacies, sometimes in places and ways that we least expect. That was the story behind the headline in October 1951 about a wedding in Vermilion Parish involving a World War II v...
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Tales of fortune excited heirs
Sixty-eight million dollars is a lot of money, even if it is going to be split among 120 people, especially if most of them are poor southwest Louisiana farmers. That's why there was such big exc...
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They hunted the rascals down
Rev. J.M. Johnson was the only passenger aboard the stage coach that pulled out of Bayou Chicot in what is now Evangeline Parish about 9 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 3, 1881. But the driver, Robert Fergu...
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Jake, Fifine, and Father Forge
Three thousand people, about half of the town population, attended the last rites for Father Ernest Forge, a beloved and long-time pastor of St. John Cathedral in Lafayette in 1905. He was so loved...
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Early settlers were true pioneers
When we talk about the American frontier we usually think about pioneers in Conestoga wagons lumbering across the Western prairies. But the first settlers in south Louisiana were every bit the pion...
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Jury took up collection
Neighbors rallied around Joseph Hartman after he was convicted of manslaughter in 1847. They even took up a collection to take care of his wife when he was sent to prison. The story started on Ma...
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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 m...
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