A few people are still fishing crawfish, either because they don’t have anything else to do, are still making enough money to keep going, or because they don’t have enough money to quit. A young friend of ours is still fishing and says at $1.25 a pound he can still make $100 a day. It’s got to be awfully hot in the woods though.
With the discovery of oil in 1901 in the Evangeline Field, the Acadian prairies were booming a century ago. And while oil lured capitalists from the East and elsewhere, big‑time rice cultivation brought a steady flow of farmers from the American Midwest.
A neighbor and I drove to Bayou Sorrel last Sunday to spend a few hours with Atchafalaya Basinkeeper Dean Wilson, his wife, Cara, and several other ABK members – Greg Guirard, Anna Thibodeaux, a woman who teaches at ULL, and her husband and another woman whose name escapes me. An interesting group of people.
Louis Stanley Martin was 16 years old when he volunteered to fight in World War I. He was not yet 18 on July 20, 1918, when he died on a battlefield in France.
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