Interview with Mr. and Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. Hypolite Matherne

Accession No.: 
DA1-011

(Was listed as Aypolite Matheane, but his name is Hypolite Matherne);

00:15 - Twenty families lived near Bayou Perot; Cemetery; Bayou Vilar; Little Temple;
01:45 - Had to go to Des Allemands for groceries; Selling fish; Lard;
03:20 - Made a living trapping and fishing; Isle de prince noir (?); His grandpa died at 97 years old;
05:00 - Explaining the name Des Allemands; Deux means two; Describing the areas around Des Allemands;
07:30 - The two Schmiltz brothers; His uncle had a cow pasture that would flood; People lived in the marsh to be near the fish; Charlie Hopkins' saw mill;
09:30 - Farming and gardening; Lake Buck (?); Vacherie Canal;
11:15 - Changes in the marsh; Nutrias; Selling ducks between 1912 and 1917;
12:40 - Dances in Des Allemands and Vacherie; Every Saturday; People drank on the first floor and dance on the second floor; He would borrow his brother's boat;
13:50 - Camendale Village (?); Trapping before leasing; They had their own canal;
15:15 - He worked for Steinberg for 25 years; He retired in 1968; Working;
18:10 - Bayou Gauche and Des Allemands; They had a grocery store there, so people traveled to it; Choctaw had two grocery stores; Bayou Perot had a grocery store;
20:25 - They bought their seines instead of making them; People from Des Allemands would troll in Lake Salvador; Lafitte and Barataria;
23:12 - Shrimping;
24:50 - They are looking at photos; Bayou Terrebonne; Grand Lake; They don't have any pictures of their old house;

Next interview with ?;
29:28 - Sister Lake; Crevasse;
30:35 - **Audio goes out;

Next interview with the Matherne's again?;
31:07 - Carmendale Village (?), Bayou Gauche; They've been married 60 years; Fishing; Skiffs and oars;
34:00 - Seine fishing; Four men in a crew;
37:00 - He built his house for $250; Bousiller; Fishing in Des Allemands;
39:38 - Lake Cataouatche; Bayou Segnette;
41:50 - Trainasse / canals; Trapping; Farming;
43:30 - People living on Bayou Segnette;
45:50 - Pointe Chicot / Stump Point; Bayou Matherne near Lake Salvador; Fishing;
49:00 - Selling fish; Fish buyers; They got married in 1912; People lived at Bayou Cuba and Bayou Perot;
52:10 - Hill of berries; Cemetery; E.P. Brady; Groceries;
54:45 - Louisiana Cypress Lumber Company; Hauling timber in 1912;
56:50 - Houseboats; Building boats with cypress; In 1934, shrimp sold for $5 a barrel;
01:00:20 - Manila Village; Camp Dewey; Bayou Bardeaux;

Media Type: 
Audio
Collection: 
Davis, Don
Subject: 
Louisiana; Marsh; Canals; Fishing; Seine Fishing; Trapping; Farming; Gardening; Coast; Nutria; Dances
Creator: 
Donald Davis
Informants: 
Mr. and Mrs. Hypolite Matherne
Coverage Spatial: 
Des Allemands, LA
Publisher: 
Center for Louisiana Studies
Rights Usage: 
All rights reserved
Language: 
English
French
Meta Information
Duration: 
01:01:30
Cataloged Date: 
Wednesday, June 24, 2020
Digitized Date: 
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Storage Location: 
Archives of Cajun and Creole Folklore