For years, cypress timber was the big money maker in the Atchafalaya Basin for those who could invest in crews to cut the trees and the mills to saw them into lumber. But lesser folk made money from the Spanish moss that hung from those trees, some years a good bit of money.
1923 was one of those years, according to the headline in the Teche News on March 10. “Moss Picking Paying Very Well,” it…