3. Bayou du Large
When I first went to Bayou du Large I was amazed to find the people speaking with an accent of Old England […]
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2. Fourpoint
During the summer months in the early 1950’s I trawled out of Fourpoint in Terrebonne Parish with the first boat I owned, […]
1. Camanada
Camanada was a small settlement on the mainland side of Camanada Bay opposite from Grand Isle, which separated Camanada Bay from the […]
Introduction to A Terrebonne shrimp story
by Wilson J. Gaidry, III In my lifetime, shrimp and the shrimp fishery defined the Cajun people in Louisiana coastal communities more […]
Jacques Amans
In 1856 my Great Great Grandfather Robert Ruffin (RR) Barrow Sr. persuaded Jacques Amans to paint an almost life-size portrait of his […]
13. Mr. Pros
Cypress tree Prosper Vauclin was born in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana in 1906, at a time when the South, especially South Louisiana, was […]
12. Campti: then and now
Campti Main Street During the summers of the 1940’s I would spend several weeks in Campti, Louisiana, about 10 miles north of […]
11. Jim Jack the cot driver
Jim Jack Occasionally in the numbers of men one person will stand out representing a trait or character. Such was Jim Jack. […]
10. Grandfather’s cypress swamp
In the winter of 1952 my father took me duck hunting on some property we own at the end of Bayou la […]
9. Disciples of Percy Viosca
Percy Viosca Percy Viosca Jr. was one of the first native born Louisiana naturalists and was considered the father of the wildlife […]