(There is a third man who is not named);

00:00:08 - Different sides of the canal; Cemetery; Melancon's seafood and boat launch in Leeville; Fishing, hunting, and trapping; Seine fishing; 20-35 foot boat called a seine skiff; Captain's role; Those boats were propelled with 8-10 foot oars;
00:06:10 - Dip net for fish and shrimp; Ice boat; No oars, just a sail and a push pull; Cordelle (rope); Larose;
00:10:00 - One man could get to New Orleans just as fast as on a boat with a motor; This was around 1912; His father died in 1905 (?); Lake Salvador;
00:14:50 - Seine boats; The ice boat crew would cook for the seine crew; They mostly ate white beans, but also rice, fried shrimp, and fried fish;
00:16:40 - Selling shrimp at the platform; They'd sleep on the banks of the lake, but the tide would rise and you'd be sleeping in the water; Mosquito barge; Gnats;
00:18:00 - Oyster men; They had small camps; Palmetto roofs; Tonging oysters; They leased the oyster beds from the state ($1.00/acre); They'd bring them to New Orleans; If they couldn't sell them, they would bring them back and put them in the water;
00:22:40 - They usually had flat bottom boats for oysters; Oyster skiff (14-18 feet); Banking; They'd sell them for $.25 a basket (a sack of oysters today was about 2 baskets);
00:25:42 - There were 4-5 families living at oyster camps in the marsh; Broussard's, Kronich (?), Boudreaux's, Galliano's; Julien "Don" Galliano built a grocery store in Jack/Jackie's Camp;
00:28:38 - Most of the camps were on the west side of Bayou Lafourche; Camps at Felicite Island, Jackie's Camp, Bayou Toulouse;
00:30:30 - House on Beard Reef; Barataria Bay; Changes in the coast; In 1912, he was 14 years old and went to Timbalier lighthouse and it was on land; Around 1948, he went fishing at the lighthouse but it was in the water;
00:34:00 - They raised cattle on some of the islands; Those islands are almost completely gone;
00:34:50 - They made rice in Leeville at one point; Barataria Bay: Bayou Collas, Manila Village, Camp Duet, Bayou Do Gris (?), Bayou Cutler; They people who lived there were fishermen; Joe Fischer and his brother had business in Lafitte and had the platform at Manila Village; Dried shrimp; A lot of Chinese workers;
00:37:25 - Dried shrimp at Basa Basa; Not a lot of dried shrimp business in Lafourche Parish, mostly in Terrebonne and Jefferson Parish; The name Basa Basa came from the Chinese community; Several one room camps;
00:39:10 - Lafitte; Tony Crappell (?); Alombro cemetery near Golden Meadow and King Ridge; The King family;
00:42:25 - Bayou Louis; Cattle; The Cheramie's; Palmetto Bayou; This is trapping territory, not oyster or fishing; The land was open and everyone could use it for free; People would mark their spots with trainasses;
00:46:40 - Perdiac is between Leeville and Grand Isle; Hunting; Marais;
00:48:20 - Homes in Cheniere Caminada and Leeville; Mostly square and one room; Bousillage; Stove; Bousiller chimney; Palmetto roof;
00:52:00 - Describes palmetto roofs; Cypress;
00:55:00 - Before 1893, his grandfather took oysters to New Orleans; 50 trips; He had $150, sugar, flour, other groceries;
00:57:00 - Before 1893, Cheniere Caminada had a lot of people; Cote Blanche;
00:59:00 - Discussing where initial immigrants came from; His grandparents;
01:01:00 - Seine crews;
01:02:00 - Stories about how the settlers at Cheniere Caminada came from Lafitte's boat;
01:03:25 - Dance halls in Leeville; House dances; Harmonica, fiddle, and accordion; Weddings; Joe Perrin, Etienne Jambon had dance halls; They were privately owned;
01:05:00 - Not many houseboats; A man would come on a boat with a magic show and movies; Shotgun houses and square houses;
01:07:30 - L'esquine (?) near Fala; Lighthouse keepers; Gray family and Gray Canal;
01:10:15 - Orange groves; Local carpenters built boats; Smaller boats were normally flat bottom and the larger boats were round bottom; Flat bottom is a skiff and a round bottom is a lugger;
01:12:10 - Masts; Spruce sometimes but mostly cypress and pine; Platforms would use timber as fuel;
01:14:30 - **CHRIS** Changes in the marsh; No more cypress;
01:17:00 - Alcohol; ***CHRIS** "We never had prohibition in Golden Meadow"; Weddings; The bride and her bridesmaid would go from door to door to invite everyone to the wedding; Wedding gifts were typically cakes or alcohol to use on the wedding day; People would go door to door to invite people to funerals also; If the priest showed up, a couple of people would go door to door to announce mass;
01:20:20 - Closer doctor was in Larose; Herbs; Yellow fever in 1905; Two doctors in Grand Isle; His mother lost her husband, her only brother, and her only sister in 15 days;
01:22:20 - Traiteurs and sage femmes (midwives); Homemade medicine; Story when he was a kid and his mom tried to give him castor oil;