My first ever visit to Natchitoches last week

Front street and the Cane River are beautiful.

love dem meat pies

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love dem meat pies

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Lasyones mmmmm

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Front street and the Cane River are beautiful.

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I'm wondering what the reaction was when the people there realized the Red River had changed course.

Speaking of the Red River... interestingly, until the 15th century the Atchafalaya was the lower portion of the Red River.

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Still felt pretty Cajun to me

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Rex - there were ~ 1 million French speaking people in the area encompassed by the Louisiana Purchase, before the Acadian migration. The fact they had distinct names, settled in the Cajun triangle, and became shrimpers, rice farmers, alligator hunters, etc., allows them to carry the banner of "French" culture in Louisiana - but, Natchitoches is a blend of Parisian "New France" and northern Louisiana Creole (mainly black Creoles) - and has virtually nothing in common with "cajun" Louisiana. There is some overlap and there is some adoption of cajun cuisine, etc., but that is a more recent phenomenon.

Natchitoches is not "cajun," but is heavily French in culture.

My favorite place in La.

Natchitoches was on the network of trails that ran overland from the East Coast all the way to Mexico City-the Cumberland Road to Nashville, thence to Natchez via the Natchez Trace, thence across Louisiana to the Texas border via the Three Notches/Harrisonburg Road, thence via the El Camino Real to Mexico City. Just about anyone of significance in the history of the region that would become the southwestern United States passed through there at one time or another.

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love dem meat pies

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Been many times. On the next trip, I'd like to visit the LA Sports Hall of Fame. The new building is supposed to be nice.

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It used to be just a bunch of photos hanging up in Prather Coliseum.

I went earlier this year. It's really great.