Jim Bradshaw
Jean Lafitte was the most notorious — and successful — of the pirates operating from Louisiana in the early 1800s, but he wasn’t the only one.
A federal grand jury in New Orleans reported in July 1814: “Piracy and smuggling are ... long established and ... systematically pursued by many of the inhabitants of this state and, particularly, of this city and vicinity.”
Bryan Golden
“I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving -- we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Time passes. Life moves on. You will get older. You are on a journey, an adventure. The route traveled, the course set, is up to you. Whether you are active or passive is your choice. Either way, the journey will continue.
William Thibodeaux
I recently read an interesting newspaper article sent to me from my friend, Robert “Bob” Broussard, an Abbeville native who now makes his home in Centerville, near Franklin, LA.
Jim Bradshaw
Someone once called the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway a “thousand-mile miracle,” but there was nothing miraculous about getting it built. The miracle was that the idea for the canal came from west Texas, not south Louisiana.
The idea of using inland waterways had been around well before Louisiana became a state. U.S. Treasury Secretary Albert Gallatin formally urged Congress to consider it in 1808. The War of 1812 crimped funding for his scheme, but it also reinforced his idea that waterways were needed for military transport as well as everyday commerce.
Jim Bradshaw
With the temperature climbing higher every day, it was welcome news in Crowley in the early summer of 1923 that the town’s first ice cream plant would soon be ready for business. Until then, local vendors there and in most other south Louisiana towns had to make their own, usually in a hand-cranked freezer, which was time consuming and produced uneven results.
There were a few bigger plants in south Louisiana who churned out ice cream that they claimed was not only good, but good for you, but it was still an infant industry.
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