Bayou Teche Dispatches
Showing posts with label New Iberia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New Iberia. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Rough Rider Redux: A Photo of Theodore Roosevelt in Downtown New Iberia?

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Two days ago an acquaintance sent me the below image from a cache of family photographs owned by his mother, a Broussard from Iberia Parish...
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Saturday, September 21, 2013

A Floating Dancehall on the Teche: The Club Sho Boat

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While researching Bayou Teche I learned about a riverboat on the bayou that had been converted into a floating nightclub, dancehall, and re...
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Sunday, July 1, 2012

Finding History Right around the Corner: Heroism on the Cajun Home Front

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The following serves as a good example of how history can be found right around the corner, literally, if you look for it. In my book T...
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012

An Old Bull Durham Tobacco Ad in New Iberia, or Palimpsests on the Teche

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In June 2011 fire destroyed a three-story Masonic lodge in downtown New Iberia, leaving a vacant lot along Main Street.  Although I drove...
Thursday, December 1, 2011

La Chute: A Waterfall on Bayou Teche?

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I became aware of claims that a waterfall once emptied into Bayou Teche while examining one of the first extremely accurate maps of Louisi...
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Shane K. Bernard holds degrees in English and History from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and a doctorate in History from Texas A&M University. He is the author of several books on south Louisiana history and culture. Shane lives in New Iberia, Louisiana, a short distance from the celebrated Bayou Teche.
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