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Young's dad Franklin native
Andrew Young Jr., former congressman, mayor of Atlanta and ambassador to the United Nations, is known around the world for his diplomatic skills and leadership in the civil rights movement. His d...
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Above is a handmade French jumping jack purchased at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival a few years ago. The man who made it said he cut and sanded the wood, his mother painted the pieces and together they strung them into place. This and other handmade articles pertaining to the Mardi Gras season are on display at the Eunice Depot Museum.
Cajun Mardi Gras a huge boon to cottage industries Georgie Manuel - Remembering When column
The swallows fly back to Capistrano to herald the coming of spring but locally it’s the large number of trailers and wagons flying down any given street that announces the coming of Mardi Gras in C...
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Happy Fats heard nationwide
Louisiana French music began to get a wide national audience in the 1970s after masters of the craft like Bois Sec Ardoin and Canray Fontenot, the Balfa Brothers, Nathan Abshire, and others were in...
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New Orleans Mardi Gras articles shown include: doubloons from the krewes of Rex, Comus, Bacchus, Zulu, Jefferson City Buzzards, and Pete Fountains Half/Fast Walking Club; original beads done in glass instead of plastic; a Zulu painted coconut; a ball invitation; bracelets from the Krewe of Iris; framed sheet music from the 1930’s; a black glass vase call out gift from the Krewe of Rex dated 1917; an ashtray from Rex dated 1913; and handmade floats: one cut from tin and the other done in papier mache and stretched canvas, much like the parade ones are done today.
New Orleans also celebrates Mardi Gras, albeit differently Remembering When - Georgie Manuel Column
Yes, Virginia, there is another part of the state that celebrates Mardi Gras besides this area. Granted, ours is better, but for the most part, people come from all over the world to take part in ...
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How many 'original' colonies?
Revisionist historians have been telling us since the Revolution that American history began in the 13 "original" Atlantic colonies and that hardy, English-speaking pioneers pushing across the moun...
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School budget woes just beginning
Whatever choices the St. Landry Parish School Board made Wednesday night to balance its current budget are but a glimpse at what’s coming next. The board, according to its acting superintendent an...
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St. Ed's has heard plenty of music
By Jim Butler The Jan. 21 Centennial Gala is the next special event in St. Edmund School’s celebration of its first 100 years. First Class of Lafayette is the seven-piece band which will play dan...
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De Flaugeac a man for all seasons
Jean Lafitte was probably the most famous French speaker at the Battle of New Orleans, fought 197 years ago today. But there were some others — mostly former Napoleonic soldiers — who fought well a...
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This number no longer in service
442-3825 has been been on my speed dial for as long as I can remember. Good times and bad, busy times or slow, 442-3825 has been a quick link to the Butler home base. Across it went news of marr...
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Pictured are green oatmeal glass dishes and a cardboard church with a cutout in the back to insert a Christmas light from behind, small tokens of years gone by.
Green glass treasures were hidden in boxes of oatmeal Remembering When -- Georgie Manuel column
Since this is the column just before the holidays, I started to do what I usually do: pull out and revamp an old Christmas one - but you can only carry laziness so far. And, in keeping with the “f...
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Above are a small handled mug and the smallest of five pitcher sizes. The two larger ones are a handled stein on the left and a vase on the right. The small circle in front is an advertising mirror.
Old Sleepy Eye’s visage adorns collectible stoneware
Follow-up on the article I did on premiums that were found in the sacks of flour: one of the better-known flours was from the Sleepy Eye Milling Company in Sleepy Eye, Minn. That might sound a li...
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Olympian names in Acadiana
A boy would likely be laughed out of the first grade today -- or certainly need a nickname -- if he was named the same as his great-grandpa, but it was once the fashion for Acadian families to give...
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