Cajun

Book revisits 1970’s Basile

In 1972, Ron and Fay Stanford came to southwest Louisiana to take up residence east of the Basile town limits at the homestead of the late Nonc Tom Young.

Joubert vision helped lead rebirth

Curtis Joubert couldn’t have been elected mayor of Eunice at a worse time. He took office in 1981, just as a crumbling oil industry began to drag south Louisiana into a financial pit worse even than the Great Depression.