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.
St. Landry
St. Landry Index
History
Amédé Ardoin
One of southern Louisiana's first great recording artists was Creole accordionist and singer Amédé Ardoin.
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.
Architecture
Chretien Point Plantation
Chrétien Point, the center of the Civil War's Battle of Buzzard's Prairie in 1863, is rumored to have been spared when its owner, Hypolite Chrétien II, gave the Masonic sign.
Music
Clifton Chenier
Clifton Chenier, self-proclaimed “King of the Bayou,” pioneered the modern sound of zydeco music starting in the 1950s.
Folklife
Creole Folktales
Many Louisiana Creole folktales represent a convergence of African and European culture.
History
Don Juan Filhiol
Don Juan Filhiol's most noted accomplishments are associated with the European settlement of the Ouachita River Valley and include the founding of the Poste d'Ouachita and Fort Miro, which later became Monroe, Louisiana.
Art
Georgie and Allen Manuel
Allen and Georgie Manuel were a husband-wife team who made traditional costumes of the Cajun courir du Mardi Gras, the celebration of Carnival season in rural South Louisiana.
Government, Politics & Law
Kathleen Blanco
Kathleen Blanco, Louisiana's first woman governor, served during Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. Blanco faced extreme criticism of her handling of the disaster.
Business & Industry
Liberty Theatre
The historic theater in Eunice entertained generations as a movie theater, vaudeville house, and home of Rendez-vous des Cajuns.
Government, Politics & Law
Opelousas Massacre of 1868
The deadliest episode of Reconstruction-era racial violence, the Opelousas Massacre of 1868 left more than two hundred Black people dead and established a near century-long precedent of Black voter suppression in St. Landry Parish.
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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