Calling all Cajuns. Put on your garde soleil and sabots, and head down to St. Martinville for the Acadian Memorial Festival. Friday, March 14, the festival kicks off with a promenade down Main Street and a crawfish boil . Saturday morning, March 15, the arrival of the Acadians along the banks of Bayou Teche after their deportation from Nova Scotia in 1755 will be reenacted. This year’s festival honors the Bourque and Landry families, whose descendents will play the parts of their ancestors, paddling up the bayou in antique bateaux and debarking at the Evangeline Oak. Throughout the day, the many museums of St. Martinville will be open for historic and cultural exploration. The 1929 silent film “Evangeline,” featuring Delores Del Rio, and shot on location in St. Martinville, will be screened, and there will be traditional music and dancing--be sure to bring your fiddle and t’fer. Cooking demonstrations offer tastes of couche-couche, gratons and wild game, and there will be art projects, games and egg pocking for kids. Click here for a complete schedule or call the Acadian Memorial at 394-2258. This is a festive opportunity to take part in a celebration of Cajun pride, history and tradition in one of the oldest communities settled by the Acadians. Allez-y.
There will soon be a whole lot of shakin’ going on at Benny’s Sportshack Supplement Depot, a new concept by Opelousas native Benny Nele. Located at 2002 Johnston St., the supplement shop, smoothie bar and café, featuring hot off the press paninis and wraps, plans to open in late May.
Philip deMahy Sr., a once respected New Iberia ad exec, was sentenced May 2 to spend the next two years (he faced up to 100 years) in a state penitentiary after state and federal investigators found dozens of images depicting children engaged in lewd sexual acts on his personal computer.
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.
Calling all Cajuns. Put on your garde soleil and sabots, and head down to St. Martinville for the Acadian Memorial Festival. Friday, March 14, the festival kicks off with a promenade down Main Street and a crawfish boil . Saturday morning, March 15, the arrival of the Acadians along the banks of Bayou Teche after their deportation from Nova Scotia in 1755 will be reenacted. This year’s festival honors the Bourque and Landry families, whose descendents will play the parts of their ancestors, paddling up the bayou in antique bateaux and debarking at the Evangeline Oak. Throughout the day, the many museums of St. Martinville will be open for historic and cultural exploration. The 1929 silent film “Evangeline,” featuring Delores Del Rio, and shot on location in St. Martinville, will be screened, and there will be traditional music and dancing--be sure to bring your fiddle and t’fer. Cooking demonstrations offer tastes of couche-couche, gratons and wild game, and there will be art projects, games and egg pocking for kids. Click here for a complete schedule or call the Acadian Memorial at 394-2258. This is a festive opportunity to take part in a celebration of Cajun pride, history and tradition in one of the oldest communities settled by the Acadians. Allez-y.
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