Worth every penny: Lafayette through the eyes of the Frugal Traveler
Lafayette makes a guest appearance in the annals of the New York Time’s Frugal Traveler this week. It’s always interesting being a tag-along-tourist when a travel writer comes to town. Even if it’s just a virtual tag-a-long.
Seth Kugel, who travels on the cheap for the NYT, got some great tips for what to do in Lafayette and its environs. (Not from me, I swear.) He hit some personal high spots like staying at the Blue Moon Guest House, taking a Lake Martin swamp tour, chicken fricassee at Creole Lunch House and the half and half shrimp/oyster poboy at Olde Tyme.
He also encountered a local lightning rod: swamp guide and political ranter Marcus de la Houssaye. Kugel describes his experience in the middle of Lake Martin:
But he was also liable to stop the boat and lose himself in anti-government rants, random tangents on the Ice Age and what it means for global warming, and the evils of commercialized dog food. We’d find ourselves fruitlessly trying to find an easy segue to our favorite topic: “Where are the alligators?” No luck.
Marcus to a T.
Read the rest of Kugel’s on-the-money whirl through Lafayette here.
Is it a crime for citizens to photograph, video, or take notes of a police officer in the line of duty, or a right protected by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution? Locally, such activity, as witnessed recently, will at the very least result in a night spent behind bars.
David Calhoun and Elizabeth “EB” Brooks are the first two employees of Lafayette Central Park Inc., the nonprofit charged with turning Lafayette Consolidated Government’s 100-acre Johnston Street Horse Farm property into a passive public park. Calhoun was named executive director, and Brooks is director of planning and design.
At Thursday's State of the Economy luncheon, LEDA President and CEO Gregg Gothreaux said PXP has already quietly hired 180 people for its Broussard expansion.
Episcopal School of Acadiana’s Dr. Joshua Caffery, chair of the school’s English Department, is headed to Washington, D.C., and the Library of Congress as the latest winner of the Alan Lomax Fellowship in Folklife Studies.
This year’s Cool Town issue is all about people who are not native to South Louisiana but made a conscious decision to be here, to be among us, to participate in our culture and contribute to it.
A shelved ordinance transferring $200,000 from a northside drainage project to a south Lafayette development may not break any laws, but it stinks to high heaven.
An effort to restore a shuttered dancehall and document other vacant or razed honky-tonks could serve as a model for saving an endangered species of entertainment.
Lafayette’s gene pool has been host to a long line of eccentric characters who have blurred the lines between crazy, genius, disturbed and curiously entertaining.
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