Interview with Mr. Theriot;

00:00:08 - Natural medicine; Gall bladder, kidney remedies;
00:01:26 - Davis asks how Leeville got its name, but he doesn't know; Smuggling alcohol during prohibition; Talk about the Chinese population in the area;
00:04:00 - The houses were built with planks and most of the wood came from Valentine; Describes how they built houses;
00:06:00 - He says if he had a good education, he would have written a big book; He's almost 72 years old;
00:07:40 - Camps in the marsh; The boats were big enough to have a cabin on the boat;
00:08:50 - Building canals; They didn't have machines to do the work for them like today; They only had a sailboat; Push pull boat;

Interview with Levy Charpentier (Levi?); Tuesday, June 12, 1973 at his home in Cutoff; Dean Charpentier, student at Nichols, acting as translator; It sounds like his wife might be there too;

00:12:25 - Introduction; Davis starts by saying he wants Charpentier to talk about the old times; He was born in ? (can't understand); He got married in 1923 and in 1925 he bought his place in Cutoff; Raised his family here;
00:14:00 - His father was a farmer and a carpenter; He farmed corn, potatoes, and raised honey bees; Sold the wax for $0.25 per pound; His dad delivered it by boat to New Orleans; He would go to New Orleans too; The boat had a motor, but he remembers having a boat without a motor;
00:16:30 - After 1905, they had no fresh water; He was 6 years old in 1905; Levees;
00:17:45 - His father had 1 and 1/3 arpent of land to farm; Cutoff; Names of families in the area: Guidry, Autin, Chouest; Milton Chouest from Golden Meadow;
00:19:10 - Trapping and fishing; They would trap in the winter; Him and his brother Oliver (who passed away) would get oysters;
00:20:55 - He never went to New Orleans on a push pull boat; His father was born and grew up around Cutoff; Felicite Island on the west side of Bayou Lafourche; Bayou Terrebonne; Bayou Cane; His father married Joe Chouest's daughter;
00:22:45 - His mother told him there were about ten houses on Felicite Island; People lived in Leeville, Chenière Caminada; Hurricane in 1893 wiped out Chenière Caminada; 1,800 people drowned; People were living in Grand Isle, Felicite Island, Esquine (?) was above Felicite Island; His grandmother was a Plaisance; Bayou Fala;
00:26:15 - Duck hunting camp; Sold ducks in New Orleans; Using bird feathers (plumes);
00:27:15 - Work cycle; They would trap from December to February; May to October they would fish (?); November they would prepare for trapping season; They trapped, fished, and raised crops;
00:28:40 - They leased land to trap;
00:30:05 - Lumber to build their houses; They would cut wood in the summer to use in the winter; Wood stove (no gas); French oven in the yard; Bousillage, bousiller; They used to build houses with bousillage before they started using wood;
00:33:10 - No one lived in house boats during that time; They would take there oysters out at Timbalier Island; Manila Village; There was a platform there to dry the shrimp;
00:34:15 - Senator Joe Fischer had a platform; 40 to 50 people at Basa Basa (?); They had a store; Chinese, Sabine, Filipino people living there;
00:35:50 - Platforms at Manila Village, Basa Basa, Grand Bayou, Bayou Collas (?), Camp Dewey; People lived year round at the platform;
00:36:40 - They would get lumber in Houma to boil the shrimp;
00:36:55 - He would bring oysters from Brush Island (La Brosse Island) to Houma on Bayou Terrebonne and Lake Barre; Man named Boyne who was born on Brush Island;
00:39:15 - Cemeteries on Bayou Louis (L'Ourse?) for people who lived on these islands; Kings Ridge; Jesse Bourg;
00:41:40 - Building his home; Bousiller before timber; Building boats; His dad built boats; The house he grew up in was built by his father with pegs and no nails; Notches;
00:45:30 - It would take about 2 to 4 years to build a house;
00:46:14 - They would put a sail on the boats; Levy and Dean speaking in french; Talking about sails;
00:48:18 - Trapping; They started with 250 traps; Bayou Pierrot (Perot/Pero); 450 traps; His wife and family would go with him during trapping season; They would go stay at a camp; They would build a camp every place they would trap; Put planks in the boat; Bayou Zin Zin (?);
00:51:00 - They trapped for 8 years in Bayou Zin Zin; Fished in Timbalier; Shrimping;
00:52:50 - When he was a kid, he worked in the fields for $.10 per day; They built their own platform; Boil and dry the shrimp;
00:54:05 - No one would deliver wood to the platform, they had to bring it themselves; His 50th wedding anniversary is coming up;
00:55:05 - Changes in the marsh overtime; Storms wiping out land; Timbalier used to be a big island; Groceries while trapping;
00:56:25 - Working with oysters; Tong oysters; Put them back in the water and tong them again; They would sell them for $0.35 to $0.40 a sack; They couldn't sell raw oysters at the that time;