Singer-songwriter Joe Douglas, a Living Legends inductee by the Acadian Museum of Erath, a performer who toured with Merle Haggard, Ronnie Millsap, Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn among others, is embarking on a month-long tour through the Rhine River area of Switzerland during April.
Sylvester Walker of Welsh has to be worth considering for a list of the unluckiest people in south Louisiana. He was walking along, minding his own business on Sept. 20, 1903, when, seemingly out of nowhere, a big bull came tumbling down on top of him.
Rain, rain, go away, Come again another day! Isn’t that the way the nursery rhyme goes? I managed to get two and a half flower beds cleaned and ready for planting but have two more to go. Now it’s either raining or too wet to work in the beds. My rain gauge registered an inch and a half just today.
It is amazing that there are even a handful of folk who can still do old-fashioned Acadian spinning and weaving, considering that it was apparently a dying craft well before the 1900s.
In the New Testament, Abraham is presented as the supreme model of vital faith and as the prime example of the faith required for the Christian life.