Tourism promise

By Harlan Kirgan on Wednesday, August 24, 2022
Tour operators visit Eunice
  • Retired accordion-maker Larry Miller, left, talks with Barbara Boltoukhine, of France, at the CFMA Cajun Music Hall of Fame and Museum on Sunday. Scalamogna is a representative for the Louisiana Office of Tourism. In the background is Sarah Savoy, who performed with Cameron Fontenot. (Photo by Harlan Kirgan)
    Retired accordion-maker Larry Miller, left, talks with Barbara Boltoukhine, of France, at the CFMA Cajun Music Hall of Fame and Museum on Sunday. Scalamogna is a representative for the Louisiana Office of Tourism. In the background is Sarah Savoy, who performed with Cameron Fontenot. (Photo by Harlan Kirgan)
    Tourism took a deep hit when the COVID pandemic forced people to stay home starting in March 2020. In Eunice, that was combined with the closing of the Liberty Theatre and Jean Lafitte Prairie Acadian Culture Center. Both are shutdown for repairs. But on Sunday morning a tour bus pulled up to the CFMA Cajun Music Hall of Fame and Museum out came eight passengers to visit the museum on La. 13 a...

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