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Butte La Rose

Bonjour!
Ever been invited on a free vacation to the Ozarks in Arkansas? Didn’t turn it down! Black Pot Bean Festival was happening in Mountain View, small town “way up in them there hills.” I’d never heard of it till some of the Monday night bluegrassers invited me along. Promised much fun. They go there every year.

Butte La Rose

Bonjour!
Eulogy for Eula Mae Courville Champagne (June 9, 1936 – Sept. 13, 2015): It’s said life is not about the number of breaths you take, but of the moments that take your breath away. On this day, I am proud to say that my grandmother, Eula Champagne, had both in her 79 years of life.

Fire, panic, and death

An explosion in an oil stove got the blame for the fire that destroyed G.J. Deville’s dance hall and killed 28 people in Ville Platte in the early evening of Saturday, Nov. 22, 1919. But some people said simple panic had a lot to do with the deaths also.

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