Stories by Wilson J. Gaidry, III – Page 2

1. Camanada

Camanada was a small settlement on the mainland side of Camanada Bay opposite from Grand Isle, which separated Camanada Bay from the […]

by Wilson J. Gaidry, III In my lifetime, shrimp and the shrimp fishery defined the Cajun people in Louisiana coastal communities more […]

Cypress tree Prosper Vauclin was born in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana in 1906, at a time when the South, especially South Louisiana, was […]

Campti Main Street During the summers of the 1940’s I would spend several weeks in Campti, Louisiana, about 10 miles north of […]

Jim Jack Occasionally in the numbers of men one person will stand out representing a trait or character. Such was Jim Jack. […]

In the winter of 1952 my father took me duck hunting on some property we own at the end of Bayou la […]

Percy Viosca Percy Viosca Jr. was one of the first native born Louisiana naturalists and was considered the father of the wildlife […]

(The witch doctor) At the end of what is now Trevor Ct. in Houma, was the little three room shotgun house of […]

In 1962 I had planted three hundred pounds of seed potatoes on the newly cleared property on the Coteau Road near the […]

I recently restored a 1928 truck that had been on Volumnia Farm since purchased in 1928. The 1928 Chevrolet truck This truck […]