Wednesday, December 14, 2011
More on the Elusive Andre Massé, Early Settler of the Attakapas District
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In his books Athanase de Mézières and the Louisiana-Texas Frontier, 1768-1780 (1914, as editor) and Texas in the Middle Eighteenth Century...
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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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Wednesday, October 19, 2011
On That Word "Gumbo": Okra, Sassafras, and Baudry's Reports from 1802-1803
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As I mentioned in an earlier blog article , some maintain that the word gumbo derives from the African term guingombo , meaning "okr...
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Monday, October 3, 2011
Gumbo in 1764?
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The below find is in no way my discovery . The credit goes to Dr. Gwendolyn Midlo Hall. . . . A few weeks ago a friend of mine who is ...
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Saturday, September 3, 2011
La Pointe de Repos — Early Acadian Settlement Site along the Teche
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For my own understanding as much as anything else, I post the following information regarding the location of La Pointe de Repos. Situated ...
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Tuesday, August 30, 2011
A 1795 Journey up the Teche: Fact, Fiction, or Literary Hoax?
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In 1889 famed Louisiana author George Washington Cable published his book Strange True Stories of Louisiana . Among its pages Cable includ...
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