Center for Louisiana Studies Archival Catalog

Bois-Sec Ardoin, Canray Fontenot, Ardoin Family Band:

0:00 - Cadien de Church Point

***Only year was included in original notes, no specific month or day***

Sidney Hebert (Accordion) and the Hebert Brothers with Sammy Boudreaux (Guitar), Antoine Hebert (Violin), Eddie Hebert (Triangle), Doris Hebert (Snare) and Don Montoucet (Accordion)

0:00 - Eunice Two-Step (Jolie catin); How Sidney Hebert began to play the accordion. Had band before they got married
-Didn't play dances, they played party/bouquet dances Monarch Accordion
-Family and musical brothers. 6 brothers and 3 sisters
-Oldest brother (Whitney) played accordion and fiddle, but can't play anymore because of his stroke

4:44 - Sidney sold Monarch and gave up music for 30 years
-There's now 9 years he's had his new accordion, he had forgotten everything; how Antoine Hebert began to play the violin
-Was in the service from 1942-1951, Started up again with Wilson Wright off and on
-Sidney played at parties, Antoine played a few dances; family history from around Maurice/Coulée Île des Cannes
-old time music--valse à vieux (deux) temps, mazurkas, polkas; father's music (danses du vieux temps)
-Sidney learned that polka from a record of Joe Falcon the other day
-Didn't learn from father, played new songs like "Fi Fi Poncho," "Pauvre hobo," "La valse qui m'a apporté en terre."
-Father didn't play that kind of music; Sidney is 66 years old, Antoine 56
-Sidney can't play like he used to; Timing is key for dancing

8:36 - Fi Fi Poncho; Assi dans la fenêtre de ma chambre (flip side of "Saute crapaud"?)

12:43 - Bayou Teche (Columbus Frugé); Valse de Grand Bois (La valse des Mèche; old way)
-Don says there's 3 ways to play that song

18:44 - Beginning dances with waltzes (playing two or three waltzes and then a two-step throughout the night)
-Valse de Grand Bois (modern way). Reprise on turn (Don Montoucet on accordion)

22:49 - Valse de Grand Bois (in the style of Mr. Caliste Richard). Reprise on turn

Amédé Breaux:
0:00: - Poor Hobo

Nathan Abshire:
2:49 - Pine Grove Blues
5:37 - Valse de Kaplan
8:35 - Two-Step de Choupique
11:20 - La valse à Bélizaire
14:32 - Pine Grove Boogie

***No specific year of recording, 1950s?***

Pee Wee Broussard:
0:00 - Chère toute toute

Lee Sonnier:
2:40 - Two-step de Cankton (Two-step de Tee Mamou/Nonc André)
5:43 - War Widow Waltz (Laura Broussard on vocals)

Lionel Cormier:
8:39 - Sundown Playboys Special
11:09 - Welcome Club Waltz (Reno Waltz)

***No specific year of recording, 1950s?***

Redigitize - error around 24 minutes

Merlin Fontenot, David Lee Guidroz, Austin Pitre:

0:00 - Looking for singer who fell asleep; request for 'Crying Waltz'?
-La valse de quatre-vingt dix-neuf ans (Convict Waltz/Mermentau Waltz) (for Mr. & Mrs. Dupré)

8:12 - Lacassine Special (for Mr. & Mrs. Dennis Courville, Johnson's Grocery "Boudin Man" and his wife fixes best martini, Party from Lafayette, Mr & Mrs. Kenneth Andrus, and Mrs. Merlin Fontenot)

12:14 - La valse de Reno; call Austin Pitre up to the bandstand
17:20 - Lafayette Two-Step; Austin Pitre thanking people for calling him up and saying he'll only play 2 or 3 songs

22:29 - La valse de St. Landry (La valse de Duson/La valse qui me fait du mal/La valse des Opelousas/La valse de Stelly/Big Boy Waltz)
-fiddler messing around with the Balfa Waltz. request for Mathilda

27:34 - Mathilda

***Only year was included in original notes, no specific month or day***

Merlin Fontenot, David Lee Guidroz, Austin Pitre:

0:00 - Mockingbird

0:44 - Mexican Jumping Bean (Snowball); daughter who just got married would like a Charlie Pride number
-request for Mathilda for the people from Arnaudville and New Orleans

Austin Pitre:
5:24 - La valse de Cadien
9:50 - Jolie blonde
15:14 - Two-step à Tante Adèle
19:28 - Snowball (Mexican Jumping Bean); Austin thanks Merlin Fontenot, Mr. Cormier, and the whole band

24:44 - The Last Waltz (for Margie and Elmo Ancelet and Aunt Ida, Eddie Bellard, Mr. & Mrs. Joe Carpenter)

30:19 - San Antonio (Parts of Bachelor's Life/Happy-Go Lucky) (for Margie and Elmo Ancelet, Irene and Lee, Bobby and Jimmy, Aunt Ida)

0:00 - Two-step de Mama (Lacassine Special) (Amédé Ardoin & Dennis McGee) Columbia 40514
3:11 - French Blues (Nathan Abshire & the Rayne-bo Ramblers) Bluebird B2177
6:19 - Two-step de Jennings / Tostape de Jennings (Amédé Ardoin) Decca 17002
9:26 - La valse des chantiers pétrolifères (Amédé Ardoin) Decca 17002
12:32 - La Valse de Pénitentiaire (La Valse de Bambocheur) (Dennis McGee) Vocalion
15:13 - One-step de Choupique (Dennis McGee) Vocalion

***No specific year of recording, 1943?***

Don Montoucet and the Wandering Aces:

Live at Antler's (Lafayette, LA):
0:00 - Grand Mamou
5:06 - Reno Waltz
9:43 - Les flammes d'enfer, reprise
16:23 - Colinda, reprise (for "Frenchie")
21:19 - Bosco Stomp, reprise
26:25 - Midnight Waltz (for Beulah)
30:08 - Pine Grove Blues

NOT INCLUDED IN RECORDING:
Live at the Lakeview Club (Eunice, LA):
-Bayou Pon Pon
-La valse de Kaplan
-Pine Grove Blues
-I Don't Want You Anymore
-La valse de la Grande Prairie
-Mockingbird

James Domengeaux (CODOFIL President); Jacques Souchel (USL French Foreign Exchange Student);

0:00 - 'La semaine en français' every Sunday at 9:30 AM on KPEL
-Conversation au sujet du Congrès international des Amériques
-3-5th of April 1972. 20 different countries (France, Canada, Haiti, Martinque, Guadalupe, Togo)
-montrer la Louisiane que le monde francophone était très interessé dans le movement de préserver et dévélopper/montrer au monde francophone que les Louisianais parlent bien le français
-'Le Figaro' (le plus grand papier/gazette à Paris) avait une expression de Gouverneur Edwards de son discours dessus la première page: "Soyons fier de notre langue - le français aujourd'hui et toujours." Accepté par le monde francophone
-Jacques est l'étudiant français du campus, représentant la France

-James Domnegeaux only chose Lafayette because there's place/facilities for the delegates to assemble
-He didn't want to have it in New Orleans since they've lost so much more French than Lafayette has
-Wanted to show that we remain different by speaking French here a lot, on the bayous, at stores, at school, at church, etc.
-Also because of the auditorium his brother, Judge Domengeaux built and because Lafayette is the seat of South Louisiana/capital of Acadiana
-James doesn't want to give the idea that Lafayette speaks the most French in Acadiana. Might speak more French in St. Martin, Evangeline, & Avoyelles (Cochon de Lait Festival), Acadia, Vermilion parishes.
-The entirety of south Louisiana is involved in preserving the French language and developing a bilingual society. Also interested in north Louisiana

5:31 - Cajuns, Creoles, Descents of Napolean's army in Avoyelles and Evangeline parishes, as well as Anglophone's in the north of the state are for the preservation and development of French
-1/3 of Louisiana's population understands and speaks French; some like Domengeaux aren't formally educated in French, however, the orally transmitted French is something that can be developed and used to our advantage
-last week in Paris magazine, a 6-page article about Louisiana including color pictures of birds in Henderson, Canadian geese at Florence Club in Gueydan, Mrs. Bob Lowe's house.
-Author of this article said the main attractant to this area was the French language
-French Canadian TV Guide which reaches 1.5 million families had an article on the cover about Louisiana

10:17 - Jacques est le premier Français à venir en Louisiane depuis des siècles (he wasn't expecting so many people here to still speak French -- he came here to learn English)
-speaking French with locals at the grocery store. No trouble understanding one another but might have to go slow
-on parle pas la même à Auvergne qu'à Paris; l'accent marseillais
-giving tour of USL campus before and after the Congrès to French delegates; the necessity of speaking French
-Speaking in french about the importance of speaking French, not talking about it in English
-north Louisianians; LSU in Baton Rouge; President Keiser from Nachitchoes married a lady from Terrebonne and told stories in French

14:02 - Other professors in north Louisiana are supportive of the "renaissance" of the French language in South Louisiana
-they understand the people of the U.S. can no longer be monolingual - learning French allows them to go so many more places as opposed to only communicating with the Anglophone world
-James was 17 years old before he went to New Orleans - people didn't travel back then
-responsibility of being bilingual especially in the current age when it takes only 3-5 hours to get to London/Paris
-everyone is for the development of French and bilingualism except for the public school system (they claim they don't have money, teachers, etc.)

20:04 - A few places where French Immersion has taken root; French immersion teacher, when there should be 35 in New Iberia
-7/1,100 teachers that teach French in Lafayette; Not seriously in schools according to Domengeaux - either do it 100% or not at all, no in between
-At USL, kids are interested in the French language; French Circles in Student Union
-Richard Guidry and fiancée Pat Courville; David Marcantel
-started learning French in 10th grade - need to start earlier in elementary grades
-speaking French with grandparents at home will become the style in 10/15/20 years
-French will become just as common as English
-French tourists will be compelled to come to Louisiana because the lack of a language barrier

James Domengeaux; J.-F. Cormier; Ph. Delarme; Mme Charlotte Borga:

Date: 10 septembre et 1 octobre (no indication of the year/1971 or 1972?)
Programme de la serie : 'La semaine en français' sur les ondes de la radio KPEL chaque dimanche matin à 9:30 AM

0:00 - James Domengeaux, président du CODOFIL going to France with several delegates and Governor Edwards

2:27 - thanking Dr. Delarme for his work in preserving and developing French in Louisiana via these interviews/this radio show
-survival of movement to promote the French language in Louisiana

5:42 - Bilingualism is the goal--in 20 years Louisiana will be completely bilingual
-French education involves language and culture of Louisiana

7:41 - Commercial interests and similarities between Louisiana and Ivory Coast - similar climate, sugar cane industry, Creole French; showing delegates around Acadiana

9:51 - Aristocrats speak French in New England
-In Louisiana, French is spoken and in 20 years, we'll speak like aristocrats according to Jimmy Domengeaux
-discussion of Louisiana French compared to standard French
-nothing wrong with Louisiana French -being able to speak English correctly as well as French correctly like in Canada
-local accent pretty and easy to understand

12:06 - Discussion of George Pompidou. Louisiana will be the first place he visits when he comes to the U.S. Elected in 1969
-Jean Bernard, financial advisor or French president, Nixon and Connelly

14:30 - Professors of French teaching in kindergarten; volunteers from the convent to teach French for a year
-Prime Minister of France will come to Louisiana
-made Louisiana known to the rest of the Francophone world; Domengeaux got the ball rolling with CODOFIL

19:04 - Borga's first visit to Louisiana and happy to hear so many people speaking French
-mission of bilingual education for everyone via twinning cities in the Francophone world or commerce between Francophone countries
-Cajuns being receptive to being reunited with Francophone family; having French take root again in the lives of Louisianians
-Lafayette as sister city to Longueuil, Québec; price a bigger deterrent than distance

24:10 - Discussion of dates of programs to perfect students' French
-foreign exchange programs and their advantages; studies that aren't touched on in France
speaking to university presidents

0:00 - Cankton had one of the best basketball teams - players were all men
-Trail Rides, dances, cochons de lait chez Mr. Ellis Richard - He doesn't have legs, but he was just as strong as the bouncer
-coming back from their trip to Canada; playing "Allons Chez Tee Maurice"
-Ellis wanted his name mentioned as much as possible, good or bad; Félix would go out with Freddy Richard
-Freddy went to bed later than Félix because he always to care of watching places where people would play card/craps.

4:48 - He never had a wallet, folded his money. Had money in every drawer and the house was left unlocked and open
-People would steal if they knew; 20 cents a gallon of gas ($1 for 5 gallons)
-Freddy always paid before Félix; old people used to have to work harder for less money

9:36 - Father used to cut cane (after helping grandfather and there was so little money) for $1 a day, food, and a place to sleep
-He had to clean the cane, while the others just had to cut the cane
-black lady whistling and singing along with father; people don't know what it is to work hard
-hard work in cotton fields - everyone would help out one another picking cotton and breaking corn when a farmer would fall sick
-no one was time anymore to lend a helping hand
-nobody goes to visit others; going 10 years without seeing your first cousins
-seeing family at the funeral home. "Times have not changed, people have."

15:34 - old days without radio, telephone, tv, cars - all people could do was visit neighbors and play 'la cambille?'
-(flipping a knife in air and watch it land on its ends)
-tirer un 'padgo' - someone would make a bird out of dry courtableau wood with a head, a tail, wings, and a body and put in on a post and shoot at it until it breaks/falls to the ground
-people were happier when they would get together for Sunday dinners (lunch)
-old folks' home vs. staying at home sick and being taken care of
-being hurried to live life instead of visiting and taking time with elderly family; going to see the doctor

20:26 - appendicitis killed a lot of kids; heart attacks
-a lot of money nowadays to have a lot of children - didn't cost much back in the day, but girls cost more than boys because they were in more things
-Homecoming Court - Félix had to find 2 convertibles, new suits, new dresses, and new party dresses
-$50 for Dr. Cank to take care of his wife during all 9 months of pregnancy and 6 months after
-from Coulée Croche to Cankton; how Dr. Cank got his nickname; Dr. Cank making house calls/delivering babies
-wanted to deliver 2,000, but made it to 1,985 and had enough

28:56 - Benoit family had a sugar mill. Made syrup at home or bought it from the sugar mill
-If you didn't have money to buy syrup, had to make it yourself at the mill; Junction of la Coulée Croche
-'Vin de canne' (sugar cane juice, no alcohol) - would drink it after working at the sugar mill in the winter
-Toffé--drink after taking out the syrup and cook it until it was thick (might be made with alcohol)

35:51 - Moonshine with rice or corn and sugar - mash, put in charred oak barrels to age, strong, easier to make beer
-best beer brewers would let it age before selling; like a gumbo, it's always better the next day
-black bottles because light is not good for beer, darkness ages beer quicker; bouncers Joe Hanks/Martin Webb
-Martin Webb took care of Esta Hébert's dancehalls
Martin Webb was the only one who could control that dancehall because the Marais Bouleurs would come often to try and take over the place - people respected him
-Joe Hanks was another Martin Webb, they would've known who was looking for trouble

42:02 - shooting bottles was in style, Ogé Guilbeau was the best
-Oscar Guilbeau was always a fighter - he was smaller than his father, Ogé
-Harold Léger, Pianque's brother lost an eye because of a fight
-Rendez-vous between Blanco Savoy (big man) and Pierre Montoucet?
-fighting and would stop if one screamed enough; a lot of fights over girls, who was stronger, etc.

***Copy of AN1-128***

0:00 - Le conte du garçon et l'aveugle (The Blindman in the Bleachers)
-Heard at her cousin's funeral in Duson from the priest - no more pain or hurt in heaven
-gave up play time to spend with his father

5:01 - Le conte de la fille qui méprisait tout le monde; contes des prêtres au Canada
8:03 - Le conte de la fille qui faisait des somersets; Petite Poucette (expanded)
15:25 - Le conte du grand-père et son petit-fils; le médecin: le truck et le cadillac

18:32 - Discussion of telling stories and reviving memories. No tv or radio, so mother would tell stories
-Sometimes there was a graphophone, playing outside/with dolls. Told more stories as kids got older
-Mr. Walter knows a few jokes, but never told stories (it's not interesting to him); hearing/accumulating new stories
-first time Barry came in 1974, he asked for 5 different stories
-the second time he came in 1975, she told him 12 more different stories for a total of 17 different stories
-new football story - Richard from Rayne that was first cousins with her father who died
-one died on Friday and another cousin died on the following Monday; des contes forts/'menteries' pour dire une histoire

26:25 - reference to 'Suce ma langue' (forgotten story); le chat qui dansait (remarkable)
32:44 - Le commis-voyageur; Experience Story: l'homme de couleur embourbé

39:33 - Les salles de danses dans le voisinage - Silver Slipper à la Pacanière; Romain Meche
-there was no Happy Landing at the time. René and Félix Stelly Rosale on Arnaudville Road
-les musiciens de la region - Joe Falcon, Lawrence Léger, Ozémé Guilbeau et son frère 'Chaoui', Joe Robin
-Gérard Forestier's dancehall; Caliste Comeaux's dancehall; Noah Brasseux's dancehall

42:44 - Martin Webre and the other lawmen at Esta Hébert's place
-Officers/bouncers were tough - one bouncer hit a boy and broke his stick
-la bataille chez Ophé Meche, les Guilbeau vs. les Landry; Walter Boudreaux recounts a story of a knife fight

0:00 - Régis shot the dog. Going to the dance the following Saturday
-John Déjean, went to court and Régis spent 11 months in prison in St. Martin
-he stayed there and spent the weekends at home?; Walter Boudreaux's grandfather died before he could remember
-Régis Boudreaux était en prison et constable en même temps
-Stayed constable as long as he wanted, no one would've challenged him; break for ice cream

3:28 - Régis Boudreaux était bambocheur. He wouldn't eat, just drink
-He would stop for certain periods of time and take up drinking again later; moonshiner/whiskey maker
-Il est marié et il a deux enfants. He's about 70 years old
-Story of people (malfaiteurs) coming to rob Régis of his whiskey; used to use pistols more often back then?

6:46 - L'homme à garde soleil et Madame Grand Doigt/Boogyman quand les enfants étaient canailles
-Feux follets qui te suivaient - une lumière qui voyageait le soir

9:17 - L'homme dans la lune (la chasse-galerie)
-il a été à la chasse au lieu de la Messe, alors Dieu l'a mis dans la lune

René R. Wiltz; Bernice J. Wiltz:

Bernice Wiltz:

0:00 - Hibou et oiseau dans un arbre (conte)

2:01 - "Je suis chrétien" (cantique). Sang for confirmation. 15 years of catechism, then confirmed
-Kissed his (priest's?) ring. Learned songs with father who died in 1963. The whole family sang

4:44 - "Le voici l'agneau si doux" (cantique); Songs from a long time ago - Bernice is 80 years old

7:23 - "Sur le mois de Marie" (cantique); Cutting cane - no one sang while doing so
-"J'irai la voir un jour" (cantique) - Father sang that one often
-Father would sing often but only cantiques, kids would sing other types of songs

10:52 - Bouki et Lapin et Les puits d'eau (conte)
-La poule et le pain de maïs (conte); Heard of 'Sauterelle et Froumi'

13:01 - Lapin Couri Baptiser - Bernice's father-in-law told that one often
-Gambler le cheval (vraie histoire orale); Bernice used to know more tales

René Wiltz:

15:08 - Digging for buried treasure (légende)
17:29 - Les revenants (légende) - ça ressemblait à des hommes, mais c'était pas des hommes

0:00 - Le cheval peinturé vert

4:29 - Les deux frères qui étaient au bal (conté par Barry Ancelet)
-des plaques (records) au Nouveau Brunswick
-recording music - Félix played 12 songs with Sterling Richard (son) on guitar and Bessyl Duhon (violin) for the Smithsonian
-Kenneth spent 4 weeks in France and heard Félix's tapes
-Accordion contest in Church Point - French guy stood in front of the stage learning from everyone
-teacher who taught at USL and Alexandria was on vacation in Québec - Félix taught her and Mary accordion

10:05 - Félix says you can't buy talent - you have to determined and have good enough arms/fingers to play accordion and have it in you
-Félix played 12 songs slow for her to learn from and she practiced for 3 weeks
-After she came back, Félix was impressed and said she could play
-Louisiana Hayride not far from Alexandria - whoever wants to go play can try out, and if they're good enough, they'll let them play - like a Grand Ole Opry
-"La Porte en arrière" was her first song - Félix says he had trouble learning the turn
-Varise Connor tells his grandsons to make some noise on the guitar to cover up his mistakes
-Félix hasn't seen the lady since then. Now, a Domingue fellow from Carencro is taking lessons/wants to learn "Chère toute toute" with Félix
-He has arthritis and two good accordions, but Félix doesn't think he has it
-Bessyl Duhon wanting a take to practice backing up; "Archet de violon est pas bon"

15:45 - fiddle Kenneth bought for $150 was made in 1923 - made for a symphony orchestra and ended up in a pawn shop in Nashville
-fiddle seconding; Barry Ancelet's house - 120 years old, made in 1860 and has money hidden in the walls
-Dédé Anderson (black man who works for L. Leo Judice and has a lot of property between Scott and Duson) was hired for 50 cents/day to dig for treasure
-Il a trouvé une chaudière d'argent et l'a donnée à Mr. Leo parce qu'il pouvait pas faire à rien, étant "nègre."
-Un Chiasson (un mauvais homme) était invité à soinger cette affaire
-Ils l'ont mis dans un wagon pour aller à la banque
-Il voulait tuer "le nègre" pour "split" entre Chiasson et Judice, et "split" en deux au lie de le "split" en trois avec "le nègre."
-Mr. Leo a acheté 1,500 acres pour "le nègre" entre Scott et Duson et 400/500 acres aux Opelousas

22:02 - Chaudière à sirop; pirate's money?; Chrétien Point
-haunted house where no one could stay - everyone heard noises coming from up top in the attic/garçonnière, but it was a racoon that got caught in a trap and broke the chain and was living up there
-Chrétien Point bought and remodeled - 1812 or 1700 something. A French man came and bought it, made his own bricks out of dirt her dug behind the house
-Not many houses that lasted throughout all the hurricanes and bad weather. About $100,000 worth of repairs. Cornet?

27:51 - Tanisse Faul from the other side of Cankton - a man that would not stop walking, not to eat, sleep, anything
-Stopped at Dugas/Dupuis store to buy 'un pain de 5 sous'
-Fin voleur (vrai conte); Nègre qui volait des poules quand il avait faim; les vigilantes

31:38 - Alphé Kilchirst coming back from a dance one night seeing the black man hanged naked
-Supposedly it was Castilles who did that. No trial ever took place
-Castille et son frère ont été couper du bois tant que "le nègre" travaillait dans le clos
-La femme à Castille a donné au "nègre" un pint d'eau sans disant
-Il a attrapé son bras au lieu du pint d'eau et a halé le bois et l'a ammaré à un poteau
-Le "nègre" a été rejoindre son père à Church Point parce qu'il avait peur. Il fallait se livrer
-Castille pouvait pas trouver sa femme quand il est revenu de couper le bois. Lynching the black man
-blood scared the horse more than the owner; colored people couldn't be found in town inj Sunset, rough town

41:15 - regretting whipping/lynching a black man who asked pardon of what he did, but he didn't do whatever he was accused of doing
-They hanged him regardless; Hangings - everyone had to take a part in it
-Martin Begnaud's murder and les 'petits français' hanging. Sheriff cutting the cord and dividing it up among the crowd
-lying to the Sheriff about finding money; brûler le petit bougre de Duson à chaise éléctrique
-Il a tué un homme à Abbéville; le malfaiteur (avec des enfants) est pendu
-Son garçon braillait sur le bord du chemin et disait que chaque fois quelque chose de bon se passait au village, sa mère voulait pas le laisser aller
-Mais ils étaient après pendre son père

44:56 - Mr. Kit, black man who rides a buggy to Scott. Small man, 83 years old and has more muscle than Barry will ever have
-bullies hit him with stick when he went to Scott to buy some grain/seeds; Man sold all his seeds
-$75/seed because it's a special seed, but you only need one
-Each one will give you 6 bales of cotton - more if it's a good season
-You'll have all the corn you need to put up, cucumbers, Irish potatoes and enough cane syrup for the year
-Man had trouble building his house

Recorded in Senate Office Building - Washington, DC:

0:00 - J'ai été au bal
4:17 - La porte en arrière
8:35 - Love Bridge Waltz
13:26 - Quoi faire
17:50 - Madeleine (waltz)
21:09 - Madeleine (two-step)

Recorded in Senate Office Building - Washington, DC:

0:00 - Talle d' éronces
4:45 - La chanson de Mardi Gras
10:30 - J'ai été au bal
26:00 - J'ai vu le loup, le renard et la belette

Orélie Landry (age 65); Lena Cormier (age 62);

0:00 - la dépression, le manger dans le passé, les boucheries, la pauvreté/la misère, la récolte, conserver le manger
2:00 - se deplacer en boghei, la télévision, le train/l'ouvrage/les taches ménagères
4:00 - les veillées, piquer des couiltes/quilter, la récolte, la Messe
6:00 - les dîners du dimanche, les passe-temps, les bals, causer, les courses de chevaux, Martin Wèbre
8:00 - Martin Wèbre (le gardien de la paix), Marais Bouleur, la violence dans les salles de danse
11:30 - les chicaneurs dans les salles de danse
13:00 - Martin Wèbre, les Marais Bouleurs, Mire, Bosco
15:00 - les Allemand, les Meche et les Melancon (trois familles du Marais Bouleur), L'Anse à Belair, la Pointe Noire, la Pointe-à-l'Église,
16:30 - les joueurs d’accordéon, Joe Falcon, Cléoma Falcon

(English keywords: the Great Depression, home-cooking, hog slaughtering, poverty, farming, preserving food, travel by buggy, television, household chores, evening visits with neighbors, quilting, Mass, Sunday dinners, hobbies, house dances, horse racing, dance halls, accordion players)

0:00 - Bonjour Hélène (Le pont de Nantes) chanson et commentaires
-Déshabiller vs. Dépoullier; Dédé Lacart (fomulette de jeu)

4:17 - Petite rivière fait une grande rivière (chanson); Description de la chanson et des chanteurs
-Image, pas visage. That's why her mother said she couldn't sing
-Mother sang and Inez the only child who would sing because she wanted to
-Mother would say, "ta langue est trop lourde"; Example of her mother's singing style
-Can't do like her mother, so she has to sing what is natural to her

9:07 - Singing around the fire with 'thé de sassafran' or outside on the stairs
-About 12-14 years old when she started singing. She always loved music
-she couldn't wait to get to the dance sometimes; La prière d'Osée (farce): motif J217.0.1.1
-the trickster overhears man praying for death to take him)
-Description de la Toussaint et le langage des animaux (Légende: les animaux parlent sur la fête de la Toussaint)

14:17 - L'argent enterré (légende: le livre du fouilleur, l'argent qui monte à la surface, comment prendre l'argent, les esprits gardiens)
-Needed faith in God to be able to find the buried money
-Une petite tombe dans le bois trouvée en allant voir aux bêtes (Danser sur la tombe, légende: cercueil fantôme)
-L'argent était seulement pour lui, pas pour les autres avec qui il a retourné

19:13 - Dédé Anderson (légende: le trésor trouvé)
-Sa belle-fille était une Catalon, une cousine à Inez, qui s'a mariée avec le garçon à Dédé, Louis
-Béb Anderson, Rena(?) Anderson, Leah Anderson et Florence, Nelson, Clifton all grandchildren of Dédé
-Dédé bought a lot of land with the money he found
-La maison hantée où l'oncle à Inez restait. L'or dans la maison? (légende); Commentaire des trésors
-Buried money during/right after the Civil War. Souls of slaves that would guard money?
-People weren't hypocrites like nowadays, they were good back about 100 years ago (Inez's grandmother's time)

26:03 - A feu follet was a child who died without being baptized
-Little light not bigger than a candle, that would lose you if you followed it
-If you'd see one, stick a pocketknife on a fence post and the feu follet would go play with the knife and leave the person alone
-Hard to believe, but Inez is never sure (might be imagination) (légende)
-L'homme devant l'église catholique à Maurice/qui a été à une game de carte (Villien Bros./Catalon's Grocery)
-Bad man didn't go to Mass and got sick
-His wife called the priest to come talk to him, but he didn't want/wasn't ready to die
-Doors of the church opened when he got to the Church and saw all of the candles lit
-Didn't find the man until the following day. Devil's work (légende: advertissement)

31:31 - Quand sa mère voyait une nouvelle lune belle et ronde, elle priait à St. Laurent (prière catholique populaire)
-Inez doesn't think people made it to the moon. -Inez's brother said that same prayer one day
-Vendredi Saint. Kneeling before sunrise, facing the sun and praying on the ground and kissing the ground 3 times
-Adored place where Jesus suffered. Couldn't eat before noon. Today's there's no more Lent
-Father could stay gone until 4 AM, then he would return and say the following prayer morning and night (tradition)
-En allant à mon lit. Father would say it 3 times morning and night (prière populaire)

37:13 - Lady from Carencro, Mrs. (Walter) Boudreaux's mother, Mrs. Richard age 89(?) told Barry that same prayer
-Different from reading a written prayer; Vendredi Saint
-Couldn't work, couldn't dig/work the earth maybe because Jesus suffered on this same earth for us
-Respect. Might sound strange at first but think about what's stronger than the earth
-Earth supports everything we do. Similar to the tale with the snow
-Can't grow rice in Mississippi because of the type of dirt, blessed in Louisiana
-We can plant anything here, but we don't always appreciate it (légende)
-La terre et la Louisiane (sagesse populaire); Only here (on earth) for a short visit

43:28 - Histoires de la vigilance: la loi populaire. People who would ride around on horseback terrorizing people (légende)
-If a black person couldn't do what he wanted (if he wasn't back home before the break of dawn), they would get beat
-One night, a man playing accordion was brought into the woods and beat
-He came back to the dance and finished playing like nothing had happened
-Like Clifton, people wanted them to work as hard as they had to in the workforce
-Too easy to make money playing a dance; People were uncivilized
-Grits mill in the country could only be run by the black man who stayed on the property
-He was a little scared to take over the mill when the old man died, but the old man's wife insisted
-Decided to stop one day because a man came and made him take all of the whites before the blacks
-The next day, he decided on first come, first serve. She gave him 2 guns in case he ever felt endangered
-One day, someone tried to enter but fell in the tub and the chickens made all kind of noise
-He shot and killed the person at the door. Preaching for peace

***Only month and year were included in original notes, no specific day***