Disasters
2016 Floods
A rainy weekend in August 2016 unexpectedly left behind more than three times the amount of rain dropped by Hurricane Katrina, damaging 146,000 homes in fifty-six of Louisiana’s sixty-four parishes.
Acadia
Acadia Index
Foodways
Boudin
Boudin is a Cajun sausage made of meat and rice typically consumed with the filling removed from the casing and often squeezed directly into the mouth.
Music
Cleoma Breaux Falcon
Musician and singer Cléoma Breaux Falcon recorded the first Cajun record with her husband, Joseph Falcon.
Literature
Darrell Bourque
Dr. Darrell Bourque was appointed poet laureate of Louisiana by Governor Kathleen Blanco in 2007.
Government, Politics & Law
Edwin Edwards
Democratic politician Edwin Washington Edwards cast a long shadow over the state's political history.
Business & Industry
First Louisiana Oil Well
Exploitable petroleum deposits were found in Louisiana in 1901, changing the state's economy and landscape forever.
Business & Industry
J. D. Miller’s Recording Studios
J. D. Miller’s recording studios in Crowley are best known for recording South Louisiana musical genres but the studio leaves a mixed legacy, having produced a series of racist songs in the 1960s.
Music
Katie Webster
Boogie-woogie pianist and blues vocalist Katie Webster was a prolific recording and touring musician.
Business & Industry
Liberty Theatre
The historic theater in Eunice entertained generations as a movie theater, vaudeville house, and home of Rendez-vous des Cajuns.
Folklife
Marc Savoy
Marc Savoy is a Cajun folklorist, musician, and master accordion maker in Eunice.
Music
Nathan Abshire
Nathan Abshire was a singer, instrumentalist, and songwriter who was a central figure in the mid-twentieth-century evolution of Cajun music.
History
Ozeme Carriere
Ozeme Carriere led one thousand guerilla fighters, including enslaved people and free people of color, in resisting the Confederate draft.
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