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Local Bayou history
Posted on 6/25/24 at 10:05 pm
Posted on 6/25/24 at 10:05 pm
What are the best places in Nola or Louisiana to teach my son about his French and Acadia ancestry? He's really interested in what led up to the Louisiana purchase & what not.
This post was edited on 6/26/24 at 9:55 am
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Posted on 6/25/24 at 10:09 pm to LSU Grad 2021
In NOLA? Not much.
There’s an Acadian Village in Lafayette.
There’s an Acadian Village in Lafayette.
Posted on 6/25/24 at 10:10 pm to LSU Grad 2021
Rural life museum when they have the actors
Posted on 6/25/24 at 10:12 pm to LSU Grad 2021
Bawcomeville
Posted on 6/25/24 at 10:13 pm to LSU Grad 2021
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to teach my son about his French and Arcadian ancestry? He's really interested in what led up to the Louisiana purchase & what not.
You mean Acadian. Not trying to be a smart arse, but these are two pretty different things. As for the Acadian migration, start at the old Acadian church in St. Gabriel. Then cross the river and spend some time in Cajun country: Lafayette, St Martinville, other places up and down Bayou Teche. There are lots of places you could go. Beautiful and very interesting area IMO.
Posted on 6/25/24 at 10:14 pm to LSU Grad 2021
No schools teach LA history anymore? They did when I was 12, back in 1984
Posted on 6/25/24 at 10:17 pm to LSU Grad 2021
Acadian Museum in St. Martinville.
Posted on 6/25/24 at 10:23 pm to LSU Grad 2021
quote:Driskill Mt.
Arcadian ancestry
Posted on 6/25/24 at 10:33 pm to LSU Grad 2021
Last year I posted asking about Fort Bute & Bayou Manchac LINK
The book Winding Through Time: The Forgotten History and Present-Day Peril of Bayou Manchac is amazing and available at local libraries. I got the electronic version from EBR Library System.
The book Winding Through Time: The Forgotten History and Present-Day Peril of Bayou Manchac is amazing and available at local libraries. I got the electronic version from EBR Library System.
Posted on 6/25/24 at 10:40 pm to LSU Grad 2021
You know the place baw
Posted on 6/25/24 at 10:51 pm to LSU Grad 2021
Re. Acadian history:
Acadian Memorial and Museum - St. Martinville.
Longfellow-Evangeline State Historic Site - St. Martinville.
St..Martin de Tours (Mother Church of the Acadians) - St. Martinville..
Vermilionville - Lafayette.
A common misconception is that Acadian and French are .more or less synonymous in Louisiana. But even some "Cajun" areas were originally settled by non-Acadian French who were in Louisiana prior to the arrival of the Acadians.
Check out this short book on the subject:
Carl Brasseaux Book
Acadian Memorial and Museum - St. Martinville.
Longfellow-Evangeline State Historic Site - St. Martinville.
St..Martin de Tours (Mother Church of the Acadians) - St. Martinville..
Vermilionville - Lafayette.
A common misconception is that Acadian and French are .more or less synonymous in Louisiana. But even some "Cajun" areas were originally settled by non-Acadian French who were in Louisiana prior to the arrival of the Acadians.
Check out this short book on the subject:
Carl Brasseaux Book
This post was edited on 6/25/24 at 11:08 pm
Posted on 6/25/24 at 10:52 pm to LSU Grad 2021
There is an Acadian museum in Erath. Also, Shadows on the Teche used to do pretty good job of explaining the local(New Iberia) role in cajun history.
Acadian Museum
Acadian Museum
Posted on 6/25/24 at 11:23 pm to RanchoLaPuerto
Bump on the Acadian Village in Lafayette,
Also, smaller but in Erath:
https://www.acadianmuseum.com/ourcollection.html
Also, smaller but in Erath:
https://www.acadianmuseum.com/ourcollection.html
This post was edited on 6/25/24 at 11:24 pm
Posted on 6/25/24 at 11:30 pm to RanchoLaPuerto
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What are the best places in Nola or Louisiana to teach my son about his French and Arcadian ancestry? He's really interested in what led up to the Louisiana purchase & what not.
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In NOLA? Not much.
What a fricking idiot - not everything is in Lafayette.
In NOLA - St Louis Cathedral (named after a FRENCH king), the Presbytere, and the Cabildo.
Cajun people are descendants of the French that came down from Canada. A lot of French people came over directly from France to Louisiana.
Posted on 6/26/24 at 4:11 am to LSU Grad 2021
Et in Arcadia ego.
Posted on 6/26/24 at 4:16 am to LSU Grad 2021
Lockport
Posted on 6/26/24 at 4:43 am to LSU Grad 2021
How old is your son? If he’s elementary or even middle school school aged, there’s a good book called The Louisiana Purchase: Would You Close the Deal? that does a great job explaining what led up to the LA Purchase.
Your local library probably has it and it’s pretty cheap on Amazon.
The Louisiana Purchase: Would You Close the Deal? (What Would You Do?) LINK
Your local library probably has it and it’s pretty cheap on Amazon.
The Louisiana Purchase: Would You Close the Deal? (What Would You Do?) LINK
Posted on 6/26/24 at 4:47 am to LSU Grad 2021
Capitol Park Museum
The Capital Park Museum on 4th Street in Baton Rouge is a good place to start. (Aka, Louisiana State Museum). It’s a very good museum and a beautiful place. It gives a nice overview of the regions of the state. I especially like the station that shows the different accents from the various cultural areas of the state. It’s a real gem that’s under appreciated.
The Capital Park Museum on 4th Street in Baton Rouge is a good place to start. (Aka, Louisiana State Museum). It’s a very good museum and a beautiful place. It gives a nice overview of the regions of the state. I especially like the station that shows the different accents from the various cultural areas of the state. It’s a real gem that’s under appreciated.
Posted on 6/26/24 at 4:59 am to GreenRockTiger
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NOLA - St Louis Cathedral (named after a FRENCH king), the Presbytere, and the Cabildo.
Cabildo - Spanish
St. Louis Cathedral - original church was built by the French in 1718, but burned down two or three times. The big church was built by the Spanish in the late 1700s and elevated to cathedral status under Spanish rule.
Presbytere - Built under American rule after the Louisiana Purchase from France and statehood.
LA reverted from Spanish back to French rule as part of a war treaty in 1803 (I think). The French almost immediately sold the territory to the US to prevent the English, who the French were at war
with (again), from potentially acquiring it through a treaty settlement.
That said, there was much French culture in New Orleans in the 1700s and 1800s.
Posted on 6/26/24 at 5:18 am to White Roach
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Cabildo - Spanish St. Louis Cathedral - original church was built by the French in 1718, but burned down two or three times. The big church was built by the Spanish in the late 1700s and elevated to cathedral status under Spanish rule. Presbytere - Built under American rule after the Louisiana Purchase from France and statehood.
The Ursuline Convent is the oldest French Colonial building in the US.
Lafayette’s “Cajun Village” is a tourist attraction built in the 1970s.
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