There may be pirates, arrrrrggghhh. That’s the word on a shipwreck discovered about 35 miles off the coast of Louisiana. The two-masted, 60-foot-long schooner went down in 4,000 feet of water, some time between 1810 and 1820, according to the Times Picayune. Artifacts recovered include a telescope, pottery, French bottles, swords, English mustard jars, hourglasses, a cast-iron stove, a Scottish cannon, and a coin marked 1810.
The coin dates the ship to the time of the War of 1812, the cannon and cannon balls suggest a warship, and the lack of records about the ship going down indicate a ship that operated under the radar, ie a privateer. Artifacts are headed to the Louisiana State Museum where they will eventually be displayed, once archeologists figure out the mystery of the ship. Read about the discovery here.
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.
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