Jim Bradshaw

Paddlers compete surrounded by Bayou Teche's ageless charm

On the first Friday of each October, pirogues, canoes, and kayaks of every description crowd the headwaters of Bayou Teche for the beginning of a 135-mile, three-day race down the bayou almost to the Gulf.

Of Panamas and parasols

This is the weekend when retailers tell us we’ll never get a better opportunity to stock up on everything we’ll need this summer. That’s nothing new; it’s been that way for a long time. We’re just being urged to buy different things. For example, a big ad by K. Schwartz and Co. in St.

Tapping the remnants of a salty sea

During the first week of May in 1862, workmen enlarging briny springs at Avery Island unexpectedly ran into a wall of solid salt.