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Winter is back! Ugh! For a blessed day or so I worked in the yard, cutting back dead ruellias, actually planting vegetable seeds in a flat in my greenhouse, and sat on a log beside the spillway at the boat landing just dozing in the sun. Now it’s back to a cold, cold north wind, gray skies and I think an occasional rain.

Morgan City and Berwick were among the most fought-over places in Louisiana during the Civil War. Morgan City – then known as Brashear City – was the ending place of an 80-mile rail line that began across the Mississippi River from New Orleans at Algiers, and, facing on Berwick Bay, was a port for steamboats in the Gulf.

Today marks the birthday of our sixteenth president, Abraham Lincoln.