Center for Louisiana Studies Archival Catalog

Adley Gaudet, Claude Landry:

-La chasse sans fusil. L'homme a été voir à ses animaux dans le bois. Il a vu un chevreuil et a mis du sel dans sa main. Le chevreuil a mis sa langue dans sa main et ça a resté collée à sa main. -Laver la langue dans la coulée, une grosse barbu de 9 livres. Le lapin a kick avant qu'il est mort et il a tué des perdrix. Des bottes en gommes. Traverser une autre coulée creux. 24 patassas dans ses bottes;
-Le menteur et son nègre. Tirer un chevreuil dans l'oreille et la pâte;
-Nonc Ellis à la chasse avec la glace à mesure. Sept becs croches sur la branche. Fondre la branche pour avoir tous les sept. Sa casse-tête a tombé. Il avait pour pisser et ça a fait une chandelle de glace;
-Losing the motor off the boat;
-Lady went to Lafayette and asked Mr. Viator how much eggs were. 35 sous la douzaine pour les bons. 25 la douzaine pour les craqués; Craquer-la quelque douzaines;
-La jeune fille qui pêchait. Ça ne mord pas?;
-Ne pas parler anglais avant l'école. Aller en bas de la maison pour parler français;
-Mr. Mabile qui ne parlait pas français et voulait de la glace. Sa fille avait la fièvre typhoïde et il voulait de l'eau froide pour elle. Donner 50 livres de glace;
-Punir les enfants pour parler français à l'école;
-Aller à l'école sans soulier avec des pantalons courts. Voir où il a passé dans le blanc? le matin;
-Faire une vie dans le temps, pêcher et ramasser de la mousse verte. 5-7 sous la livre pour du poisson, 10 sous en carême. Tuer la mousse avec mercury en l'air, la mousse est tout noir. Attraper des frogs. $2.50/frog. Cocodrils. Un papier blanc pour recevoir des groceries/de l'argent pour de la mousse;
-Le monde travaille dans les usines asteur;
-Pedigree du boeuf. $600 pour son boeuf. Le boeuf avait un pedigree (le boeuf s'est bien excité);
-L'homme avec des animaux. Pas de verra. Emmener la truie dans le brouette 2 miles au verrat pour breed. Il a fait ça le lendemain aussi. Pas de 'tits cochons encore. La truie espérait dans la brouette le troisième jour;
-Le vieux corusse et le jeune et tous les volailles. Le vieux ne pouvais pas compete avec le jeune, il demande au jeune de lui faire un faveur. Faire une course. 3rd queer rooster that he bought this week;
-Le prêtre à l'envers. Faire la messe en deux différents campagnes et avait pour marcher loin. Le bougre dessus le motorcycle. Le ride serait plus vite et plus froid. Ils ont été un mile dans le bois et ils ont wreck, un dans le faucet et l'autre et le prêtre a eu le cou tordu;
-Le safari en Afrique--la chasse aux baboons. Des hommes dessus un safari. Un des vieux s'est allé à la chasse aux baboons avec le jeune qui n'avait jamais été. Un fusil et ses cartouches à 6 heures le matin dans le jeep. Le vieux avait son chien. Arriver à un gros bois plein de baboons. Grimper dans l'arbre, secouer les branches faire les baboons tomber, le chien va les attraper par le cou, et le jeune va les mettre dans le sac. Le fusil et les cartouches en tout cas le chien n'aurait pas fait ça;
-Traveling Salesman et les sourds. Le commis était un peu tard et ça a commencé à mouiller. Cogner à la porte, regarder à travers la craque, et voir le vieux monde. Sortir de là et aller à la prochaine maison. Une place pour passer la nuit parce que son char est cassé. Le vieux monde est fou. Ils sont sourd et stupid (conte fort);
-Le prêtre dans le confessional. Le bougre a eu une affaire avec sa belle, ce n'est pas much. La fille est venu se confesser, si elle donne au beau, elle devrait en donner au prêtre aussi. Le bougre retourne et se confesse de voler un panier d'oeuf. Couilloner pour sa belle, mais pas pour son panier d'oeuf;
-3 filles à la confesse. La première va, sort, et prend de l'eau béni pour se laver les mains. La seconde va et se lève la robe pour fouiller dans l'eau. Le troisième l'a crié de ne pas mettre son dernier dedans parce qu'elle aurait eu pour se guarir? la gorge avec;
-Le prêtre et les filles (la dose). La fille se confesse que le bougre l'a touché tout partout. Le prêtre demande où il l'a touché. Il l'a donné une dose;
-Le bol de soupe avec un cheveu dedans. Aller chercher un autre bol de souper et il ne voulait pas payer pour ce bol nonplus. Lui donner un refund. Un putain à l'autre bord de la rue. Elle l'a suivi et lui a surpris. Ne pas payer pour un poil là nonplus (conte fort);
-Aller à Houma pour parler avec son avocat;
-L'homme avec TB dans le climat sec. Il a parti et arrête dans le Texas. 6 mois ça ne mouille pas. Il a parti encore pour Californie au désert. 1 ans ça ne mouille pas? Il ne se rappelle pas de la dernière fois. Il loue une chambre, mais a eu une clé pour la mauvaise chambre. La porte de la chambre à bain se prenait une douche. Le bougre sort. C'était trop sec;
-Mr. Gaudet avait une autre, mais il l'a oublié;

Adley Gaudet, Claude Landry

Julien Comeaux:

-Le vieux temps--c'est (pas?) pareil;
-Ne pas voir une bonne femme au bal;
-Les mères élevait les enfants;
-Fumer et boire dans le temps;
-Les vieux ne seraient pas content avec la manière les affaires vont;
-Mon carcasse va au cimetière, mais où mon âme va aller?. C'est fini après la mort?;
-Le pays est gâté;
-Ce n'est pas la peine le Bon Dieu revient dessus la terre?;
-Le vieux monde venir ici pas bateau ou par bêtes?;
-Son travail comme peintureur. $100 pour peinturer dernièrement. $125 par jour à $30 la maison?;
-Ne pas aller à l'école. Les nègres n'ont pas de chance;
-Élever ses enfants parmi les blancs. Des nurses;
-Le monde malhabillé. Habille-toi bien;
-Diner après la messe et boire une bière avec son garçon. Aller à la messe avec une chemise blanche, ses soulier noirs, et ses pantalons noirs. Jamais sans son capot;
-Home;
-Les hommes qui faisaient du whisky/moonshine. Devenir millionaire;
-Le vieux monde trouver un couteau dans le chemin. Tailler jusqu'à il était las;
-Emmener son père à Carencro. Le pays après renverser, ce n'est plus pareil;
-Son père était un ésclave. Il raconter quelques histoires;
-Mr. Albert. Pierre Comeaux (son père) parlait pour la justice;
-La vigilance--il a vu ça lui même. Jamais bloquer le petits. Arroser, ramasser du coton. Bien élever ses petits;
-Julien n'était jamais pressé. Les petits se sont mariés, ont des propres maisons. Pas de tracas;
-Les jeunes qui jouent la pelote;
-Comment c'était dans les bals de vieux temps. Les bals de maison. La musique et les instruments (accordéon, 'tit fer);
-Tobah? un bon musicien. Claude Faulk--joueur d'accordéon et chanteur de couleur;
-N'aller pas au bal malhabillé. Être assez bien élevé. Des bals de maison chez Julien Comeaux à Carencro. Inviter le monde au bal;
-Les constables. Julien était constable et gardait la paix. Respecter les filles;
-René Conque, son papa, et Saï? Babineaux--des constables. Plus de coups de bâton, tout à pistolet;
-Le monde en cachette;
-Cash son check, broke;
-Comment les mères et les pères devrait bien élever leurs enfants. Quand maman disait non, c'était non est c'était tout;
-Les jeunes filles qui viennent et deviennent broke;
-Les hommes qui abandonne leur femme pour un autre. Montrer ça aux enfants;
-Les blancs et les noirs et les jaunes;
-Un garçon qui a marié sa maman. Marier sa soeur, avec un petit?;
-Ne perd pas ton respect. Le monde devrait suivre un bon principe;
-Partir au bal ou à un gros souper. Dépenser $50-60 et ne pas avoir rien pour la famille;
-Parler pour la justice aux enfants;
-Le prix de tout monte. Le monde qui devient des millionnaires. 50 sous pour du tabac. Plus acheter arien avec 10 sous. 15 sous le paquet pour du tabac dans le temps. Du gaz, de l'huile, de la graisse;

-Des bénéfices;
-Deux qu'avait une 'tite grocerie;
-L'église;
-Ms. Decuire and Ms. Mouton (noire). Mr. Comeaux n'enyoye pas ses enfants à l'école. $1 par famille. L'école es mulâtres?;
-Un prêtre qui est venu, charger chacun $50 pour l'école. Pousser tous le noirs dehors;
-La neige tombait, arrêter là. Sam Brown, ? Guidry. La grocerie à l'autre bord de Mermentau?;
-Votre fils est là?;
-Pistolet. L'autre a resté et n'a jamais mangé. Trouver le truck. Lui laisser gêler. Des blancs qu'est là. Respecter le monde;
-Jamais avoir du tracas. Travailler deux ans de temps avec des femmes. Élever ses petits;
-L'homme pendu à Sunset des années passé. Suivre un bon principle;
-Houston, En Ville (Nouvelle-Orléans), n'import où tu vas, Rayne--connaître des blancs;
-Tailler ce nègre;

Julien Comeaux (80+)

Westley 'Kit' Dennis:

-You can't get out of the way fast enough when you're 82-83 years old;
-Raising 7 mules. He loved that. Raising and caring for (sick) horses. He wishes he could've written down this knowledge;
-Driving 4 mules during sugar cane harvests;
-Taking pictures to show what he used to do. Description of how to hook up and guide mules. It was a job, but it was pretty to see at the same time;
-La raffinerie au village Vin Trosco? Ramasser du coton chez les Montgomery. Rester à côté et retourner pour la vielle fille de Bourgeois;
-Il n'y avait pas de trop à Scott dans le temps. Le café Bourque. Feed Store (Antique Revival now across from Coffee Depot?) était le magasin à Martin Begnaud qui a été tué par les 'tits français. Chaque fois qu'il venait pour manger, il pensait à Martin Begnaud;
-Ceux qui lit la bible peut-être pourraient dire, mais il y avait plus de miracles dans le temps;
-Proche pas de barrière. Des feux follets. Il n'y avait pas autant de lumières et les maisons avaient des craques. Aller à cheval ou à pieds. Voir les feux follets au ras de la maison. Mettre des couteaux/fourchettes pour la nuit pour qu'ils vont après ça;
-Le monde qui était mort sans être baptisé. Avoir raison pour respecter le Bon Dieu;
-Pas de banque pendant la guerre. Enterrer de l'argent et tuer un homme ou un chien pour le garder;
-Essayer fouiller de l'argent deux fois avec des machines;
-Voir des affaires au ras de l'argent enterré. Revenir de l'habitation Montgomery. Alcide Judice et vieux Fontenot et lui après chercher l'argent au coin du bois. Mr. Fontenot croyait que l'esprit les avait divertit pour qu'ils ne trouvent pas l'argent;

-Des avertissements--si quelque chose arrive dans la famille;
-Le bougre malade toute l'année est venu bien, mieux qu'il était avant. Il passait chez ses oncles et ses tantes et puis il est mort le soir qu'il s'est couché après qu'il est revenu chez lui;
-Aller au bal dans le temps. Arriver à temps pour entendre la musique. Aller avec une belle. Tout fait dans les maisons. Les clubs étaient après. Raffle de gâteau dimanche après-midi. Voler le gâteau souvent;
-Jouer des niches, mais pas souvent;
-Quand il avait 20-23 ans, il ne pouvait pas aller au bal. Laisser maman où ils étaient partis. Retourner avant 1 heures le matin. Courtiser une fille, quitter de là avant 9 heures la nuit. C'est pas pareil--différence comme jour et nuit;
-Content de voir les jeunes s'amuser comme ils s'amusaient dans le temps. C'est trop dangereux et les jeunes ne respectent plus les vieux;
-13 ans rester dessus la même habitation avec des autres familles. La cuisine ne touchait pas la maison, battre avec son ami entre. Sa mère les a attrapé, des boulons et du bois pour chasser du lapin. Jamais faire la chasse avec un fusil. Des bon chiens à lapin. Garocher un baton et les faire se sauver;
-Nanouche, comme sa propre mère. Elle lui aurait plumé si elle l'aurait attrapé et puis sa mère l'aurait plumé encore;
-Couper des boites de coton? avec des couteaux de canne. Sa mère crie après lui et lui demande de couper un fouet dans l'arbre (et pas un qui était sec et aurait cassé dessus le premier coup);
-Lui et sa soeur piochait le même bout. Maman passer pour check s'ils ont manqué une place. Couper ton fouet et le tailler toi-même et te mettre à genou. Peut-être il ne serait pas là si sa mère n'aurait pas fait ça;
-Élever des enfants comme le vieux temps (pas trop libre), tu ne pourrais jamais faire ça aujourd'hui;
-Un tas plus monde que dans le temps. Ils n'auraient pas oublié;
-Travailler dur après que son père est mort. Aider sa mère à supporter ses trois frères et deux soeurs. Juste un s'est marié avant lui, danser nue-pieds à la noce;
-Il aimait danser. Danser avant le stroke. Il aimait un glide et une valse les mieux. Two-step, mazurkas. Contrieurs de danse contrier pour de l'argent;
-Gagner des gâteaux;
-Battre au bal était bien rare. Quand ils étaient jeune, le monde tuait aux bals;
-Faire des rendez-vous. Battre au coup de poings. En avoir assez;
-Battre au coup de mouchoir. Faire un rond et rester dans le rond;
-Voir des tués aux bals. L'oncle (par alliance) de son beau-frère n'a pas aimait la manière son neveu faisait. Il a ouvert son rasoir dessus son neveu. Tirer 3 balles dessus son oncle. Ils ont tiré Jules. C'est drôle. Nothing clears out a house like that. Son beau-pére planté en arrière de lui et lui a piqué avec un couteau;
-La vigilance. Du monde pendu, entendre parler de ça;
-La couleur n'a plus de droits. Les buchers, se venger ou les tuer;
-Rawhide, fouette à peau de bête. 200 hommes et chacun avait 5 ou 10 coups;
-Des blancs pendus aussi;
-Personne n'essayait d'arrêter ça, c'était trop dangereux;
-Tuer Martin Begnaud et un autre homme en France. 9 mois en prison en lui faisant des misères. Il était un membre de cette vigilance. Le dernier à ce magasin. Hamp Benton?;
-Les voir rentrer. Lui tuer à coup de couteau;
-Couper la cable qu'ils ont usé pour les pendre. Mr. Martin avait deux 'tits morceaux de cable. Il est mort après les ôter d'en haut de l'armoire;
-La fin de la vigilance. Le gouverneur a cassé ça;
-The leader of the vigilantes. Sa mère pourrait raconter de ça;
-Courir Mardi Gras au ras d'ici à cheval. Courser des poules. Il ne s'est jamais masqué avec une masque, il peinturait sa figure et se déguiser pour faire le monde rire. Courir jusqu'au village. -Son frère ne lui a jamais reconnu;

Westley 'Kit' Dennis;

***Original Catalogue--Erroneous Description***
-L'Île Navarre and Long Plantation;
-The bird that sounded like a baby;
-The man on the porch;
-Signs of buried money or people killed in war;
-Feux follets;
-Loup-garous;
-Boogie men;
-Madame Grand Doigt;
-Tataille;
-Cauchemar/Couche-mal;
-Traiteurs;
-Traitement pour des orteils foulés;
-Racinages et herbes;
-De liane aux quatre;
-Graines de Mamou;
-Coups de soleil;
-Seigner;
-Brûler;
-Passing the healing from one to another;
-Loss of healing tradition;
-'Mal Anglais';
-Le vieux nègre et le vieux blanc;

Dewey Balfa (54):

-Going to festivals to get laughed at and bringing home the 'echo.' Good cornbread until someone tells them what they have, coming from the outside;
-Learning songs from his father and some of the other musicians such as J.B. Fuselier, Leo Soileau, Harry Choates, Bob Wills & the Texas Playboys;
-He loves all musics;
-Musical family. Grandfather, great-grandfather played fiddle, they're still alive through the music. Brothers still alive in the same way;
-Old people didn't want their music to be played after they died. Dewey doesn't like the idea of people making money of dead people's music;
-Respecting Floyd Soileau by waiting a year after they died before releasing some more music. Elvis Presley, Hank Williams Sr., Harry Choates, Iry LeJeune, even Dewey's brothers;
-1948-string band. Playing 8 gigs a week. Some places couldn't afford a full band or Mr. Hadley Fontenot (accordion player at the time) couldn't make it;
-Playing Texas swing/popular music of the time;
-Iry LeJeune's Love Bridge Waltz-turning point, music wasn't dead, just underground. One of the first artists/accordionists to be recorded after WWII. Harry Choates was playing string band music. Iry was recreating Amédé Ardoin's music;
-Ralph Rinzler in 1964, before then in the 1950s. Playing music for different gatherings wit his brothers. Dewey always asked Floyd to make an album with a photograph and a statement from each artist that recorded them (Dick Richard, Nonc Allie Young, etc.) because they were part of the Balfa Bros. band;
-Balfa Bros. not a family band, but a brotherhood. Dick Richard, Marc Savoy, Robert Jardell, Nathan Abshire, Allie Young-big family with lots of love;
-Ralph Rinzler looking for talent in Acadiana. Newspaper article in Opelousas newspaper;
-Revon Reed's radio show-interviewing musicians. Dewey had to work. Revon called up Dewey at the time Barry Goldwater was running for president against Lyndon B. Johnson. Dewey WAS NOT interested in going to Newport, Rhode Island. His family convinced him to call Revon back. Vinnis LeJeune planned on going, but the guitarist decided not to go;
-Dewey had no idea what a festival/workshop/concert was. He always loved to play music, a good pass-time, universal language via facial expression. Playing house dances, clubs. Going from seeing less than 200 people to 17,000 in Newport. Peter, Paul, & Mary. Johnny Cash. Mississippi John Hurt;
-Dewey, Vinnis LeJeune, Gladdie Thibodeaux, Revon Reed on triangle and Mr. Paul as dignitary;
-Action needs to be taken, but what could a poor guy like Dewey do? Thanking Ralph Rinzler for the opportunity. Leading to several other festivals and traveling;

-The Balfa Bros. have broken more virgin ground with traditional Cajun music than any other band. Always thought they'd meet an audience that booed them away, still haven't run into that;
-1967-First time in Newport. Doing work with Ambrose Thibodeaux, the Landreneaus. Dewey had a specific traditional sound with his family band, doing stuff with his family band. Ralph came to Mamou in 1965 and did a lot of recordings which are now in the Library of Congress;
-A little rusty. Nathan Abshire didn't wanna get on a plane, he finally started traveling with Dewey;
-Father's experience with music vs. Dewey's/Nathan playing 30,000 feet in the air on a plane. Quite a big change;
-Will this music/language/culture survive? No one worked in the fields and played music and told stories. Kids came back from school, did homework and watched tv (artificial things). Bringing music into the schools via a grant;
-Music of the people, no longer chanky-chank;
-Barry describing Dewey's effort to bring music out of the dancehalls and to force people to think about this. Making the students understand that they don't only have Beethoven, the Beetles, and Hank Williams Jr. to imitate, musicians from their own culture. Making this music available to them;
-If a person has lost his roots, Dewey feels sorry for them. Dewey's culture is no better than any other culture, it's the best culture for him. First American, then Cajun;
-Playing for a superintendent--mixture of white and black people. Chanky-chank vs beautiful. White and Black cultures intertwined in our part of the country--gumbo;
-People are used to thinking certain ways;
-Dewey, Leo LeBlanc, and James Domengeaux-Domengeaux referred to it as chanky-chank. Ron and Faye Stanford doing research on the music. Be sure not to mention Cajun music at the camp. Traveling with his music. Domengeaux didn't think it was important. 80% of the preservation of the French language came through the music;
-First Festival Acadien et Créole went for 3 days and convinced what music meant to people of this area. Dewey had a lot to do with creating it;
-No age limit, no blind people, even deaf people can respond to the vibration of music;
-Exposing music to the people in power. Most people were aiming at the audience. Dewey wasn't worried about the audience, his aim was at the big wigs for them to see what music meant to the general public. Music will take care of the audience, aiming at the cultural authorities;
-Rinzler asked Dewey is he realized how many lives/people that the Balfa Bros. have affected via the music. Dewey realized only after Will and Rodney died how much influence they had;
-Barry never saw Dewey go after glory. Dewey becoming a cultural hero by his good example. Musicians who had the same experiences from outside as Dewey. Dewey feels gifted, because he's limited in book education. Spokesman for the culture;
-Dewey wanted Rodney or Nathan or someone else to speak. Dewey felt like the loudmouth. Rodney told him he spoke well and to continue doing it. Dewey's godfather told him he couldn't speak English, but he could take his place in French;
-A week in Canada. He called up his godfather and he refused;

-Dewey had questions often (the Good Lord is hearing him) and he didn't know the answer, but something would happen to where he had a logical answer. He always felt he had this mission;
-The echo alerted the people here. The culture had to bounce back from the outside for people to quit taking it for granted. Concerts all over the world for benefits for Will and Rodney when they died. Even a grant for a documentary concerning the survival of the culture;
-Statues and plaques are all fine and good (like Huey Long). Dewey would like to see their legacy in the survival of the music and the culture;
-Dewey knowing he was getting through to people. Barry, Michael Doucet. Barry is still talking about the audience. Dewey was aiming at the people who had the power;
-NEA meeting in New Orleans. Allan Jabore? People wanted to go ride around and visit Cajun country. Calling around for a restaurant. 30-40 people. Feeding everyone for a $50 gumbo and potato salad;
-Louisiana's culture divided into 3, you can't put all three of them together. Eating gumbo, sauce piquante, boudin, cracklins, etc. in another area of the state. Ruining/destroying culture by importing/exporting aspects;
-People went back to Washington D.C. and Dewey and Batiste from Baton Rouge and a lady from Shreveport all appointed to the advisory panel. Nothing for traditional culture/music. No proposal for folklorism, Dewey asking for the monies to be held until the issue is recognized and there was an amendment to allocate monies. Same thing in Missouri, Dewey saw and knew where it was needed. He did his share, even though it may not have been big;
-Getting the people of the power to talk about it. Big change in the attitude of the youth (like Barry, Michael Doucet). People Barry's age and younger who are now proud to be Cajun and speak French and were previously ashamed to claim their culture;
-Just beginning, just lit the fire. Someone needs to take over;

Dewey Balfa (54)
***Either 1981 or 1982, date unknown***
Continued on AN1-194

Pete Bergeron;

PSA's Festival de Musique Acadienne (10th anniversary);
Free admission at Girard Park, Lafayette;
15-16 September 1984;
Put on by Lafayette Jaycees and USL;
***See Page 65 in 'One Generation at a Time' by Barry Jean Ancelet and Philip Gould***

Pete Bergeron

Dewey Balfa, Tony Balfa, Nonc Allie Young, and Rockin' Dopsie at Park Vista School in Opelousas, Louisiana:

-Talking about Cajun music. Acadians bringing their music with them. Very important and music as a universal language. Watches the audience;
-Acadians brought violins/fiddles with them. Depends on who uses it (Classical-violin, Cajun-fiddle);
-Tuned EADG. Dewey plays the fiddle because he can't read music;
-Bow made of hardwood and horse hair. White horses? Bleaching hairs. Loosening and tightening the bow;
-Rosin from pine trees makes the sound. Without rosin, the strings wouldn't sound;
-Each string tuned to a different note. Finding the song that you want by learning the fiddle;
-No frets, very sensitive instrument. It becomes part of you, like any body part;
-He doesn't not play music for a living;
-Nonc Allie Young, retired store owner. Very proud of his nephew who is a brick layer, Tony Balfa, Rodney's son. Playing country music and rock and roll. Filling his father's shoes. Rockin' Dopsie traveling the world;
-Country sound (single notes) vs. Cajun sound (with drones). T'es Petit et T'es Mignonne;
-Hear the hurt of the Acadians from years past;
-It's hard to play, but if you practice and want it enough, you'll get it. Dewey first starting and sounding like catching a cat by its tail. Practicing in the barn;
-Teaching Cajun fiddle, Dewey has a couple of albums or talking to a musician;
-Different sizes of fiddles, violas;
-Dewey started when he 13 years old. He can play fiddle, accordion, rhythm guitar, harmonica, mess around with piano. His fiddle is his best. Relaxing to play fiddle;
-Keeping rhythm is very important. Older people would teach rhythm before melody. Triangle--beating it without and then with choking (T'es Petit et T'es Mignonne);
-Anything that is worth doing is not easy. Learning to play spoons. People didn't have money to buy instruments (J'ai vu le loup, le renard, et la belette);
-Fiddlesticks with cross-tuned (BGDG). Fiddlesticks give rhythm, hit big and little strings (J'ai été au bal hier au soir (similar to The Rabbit Stole The Pumpkin, Joe Falcon's Ne Buvez Plus Jamais)/Lost Indian (from Appalachian fiddler);
-Kids that speak French;
-Fiddle harder to play than accordion because there are no frets. Accordion (diatonic), you only get a certain note by pushing or pulling. Sour notes (no sour notes on accordion?);
-Playing festivals all over the world;
-Fiddle has every note there is;
-No instrument is easy, Dewey is partial to the fiddle;

-Why Dewey played music. Dewey never thought of music as a means of earning a living, but satisfying you. Playing music, he can be happy or cry while he's playing, but he enjoys it;
-Dewey professional or amateur?;
-Learning music is just like education, you have to study/practice to get good at it;
-All of Dewey's family played music by ear. No radio, television, very few phonographs (first record was in 1928 with Joe Falcon and Cleoma Breaux's Allons à Lafayette);
-Violins harder to play because they have to read, Dewey can't read music;
-Cajun music means a lot to the Cajuns;
-Dewey played at the Cotton Festival;
-1890-arrival of the German accordion. No amplification, very loud instrument. Hard to hear the fiddle. Accordion is 4 times as loud as a fiddle, with 4 sets of reeds;
-Playing for gatherings, accordion could be heard and became very popular;
-Second fiddle. Accordion could play melody and bass;
-Asthma Waltz;
-Eunice Two-step/Jolie Catin (without, then with bass);
-Late 1920s-1930s, Acadians adopted the rhythm guitar which has frets. G chords, everyone plays a G chord, makes it a band;
-People didn't know how to tune a fiddle to an accordion. Bands started when they figured out how to do it;
-Jolie Blonde (La Fille de la Veuve/Ma Blonde est Partie/La Valse de Gueydan/La Valse de Jolly Rogers/La Valse de Couillon);
-Nice to get a bunch of people together and play music. Never too young, never too old to enjoy music;
-Triple-row accordion, mainly used by the Black population. You can play anything on this accordion;
-Can play rock, blues, jazz, French, any music on the triple-row accordion. Make it sound like a violon, guitar, piano, saxophone;
-Bass side. Mix up Zydeco and Cajun;
-Breather to let the air out-Asthma Waltz. Using different buttons to get which ever notes he wants. He used to running all over, up and down (passe-partout);
-Joséphine, c'est pas ma femme (without, then with bass and full bass);
-Zydeco version of Jolie Blonde (Cajun-single, Zydeco-triple/double). Black people add a bluesy, jazzy feeling;
-Untitled Zydeco Blues number (same as on AN1-196). Playing the blues until 4 am. When he's lonesome and when his girlfriend puts him out. No one can play the blues like a Black. The Devil the first one to play the blues;
-Playing a song before it escapes hims, even if it's at 4 am;
-His son is 11 years old and he plays just as good as him. He can't read, he can only sign his name, no education, had to help his father working;

-Learning accordion upside-down on his father's accordion while he was working in the fields. He's been all over the world;
-If a musician/someone think he knows everything, he's lost everything. You never know too much in music, never think that you're too good. Never will learn all, he's still learning. Allie has been playing for 60 years and he's still learning;
-Accordion weighs about 10-12 lbs for diatonic, 40 lbs for triple-row;
-Remember music, or what 'yes' or 'no' means, you just memorize it;
-Mamou Mardi Gras;
-Country, Bluegrass, can play any style of music that they know how;
-Dewey loves to play fiddle, but he does sometimes get tired of it;
-Not a group, working with different people each program. Like to play together;
-Hard to play accordion;
-Being on television all over the world. 10 albums of Dewey and his late brothers;
-Dewey's been playing for 50 years, Tony since he's knee-high, Allie for 60 years, Dopsie for 27 years-he got married when he first started playing music. Watching Rockin' Dopsie on channel 15 Saturday from 4-5 pm. Allie will be on tv on March 21st from 4-5 pm;

***Unknown date and place of recording*** (Probably around Lafayette in the mid-1980s?)

Barry Ancelet and Jane Vidrine:

-Stage manager knowing the performer very well--ideal (ex: Liberty Theatre in Eunice, Louisiana);
-Not interjecting one-self into the performance;
-Eliminating problems between audience and performers;
-No interaction or helping introduce songs or getting information out of the performer;
-Regular crew of presenters--developed talent, some good and some not;
-Jane used to training for the national park service. Some got it quick and others weren't good at picking it up;
-National park service and Eunice might want to develop a regular local crew;
-Training and management. Repetition. Eunice every Saturday afternoon (John Delafose or Bois-sec Ardoin). Rotation, easy way to handle contracts and retaining a revolving thing;
-Change every 4 months. People get used to performers and learn what needs to be done;
-Presenter needs to know the performers well, not threatened by a personal question;
-How is it going to work from the performers point of view. Regular programming, visitable on a regular basis, frequently recurring for tourists;
-Bois-sec, Dewey, Wayne Toups--be sure there will be someone for tourists to see;
-Beale Street Theater. Pictures of major performers, maps, reminiscing going to the theater (where they sat, who they went with, what they saw);
-Abe's Palace and the drug store;
-Mini-version of instruments exhibit with more contextual photographs with making and players;
-Major dancehalls (Abe's Palace, Bélizaire's, 'Tit Maurice);
-Not a hall of fame. Revolving?;
-Visitors can view films on Cajun music. Multimedia slide show 10-15 minutes long. What's been happening in the theater;
-Paying performers at the end of the performance. People walking out after getting paid in advance, or not even showing up. Travel money for people coming from far, mileage;
-Equitably, scale to develop what performers get paid. Developed within the park service;
-Jane used to pay craftspeople $50 a day from 10 am to 3 pm with a couple of breaks and a scheduled program. 1 program announced for that day, formal presentation like an interview;
-Some people would come back and develop what they wanted to say. Aware traditional performer like Dewey Balfa. $75 a day for performers. Group of +3 got $200 a day. Depends on the budget;
-Flexible democratic system for the festival (Festivals Acadiens et Créoles). Paying the band leader ($75 a man), then band leader pays the band. Band leader distributes the money how he wants it. Barry is not in the middle;
-Paying band leader with a name gets 2 shares (manager plus musician), band of 5 gets 6 shares. Up to 3 shares--Gervis Stanford's reunion of Chuck Guillory and the Rhythm Boys);
-Zachary Richard and Rockin' Dopsie have their own price--professional musician. Dopsie gets $1,300 a performance. Barry negotiates with him. Reserved for bands with an obvious need to do that;
-Joe Wilson--this is what we have to pay you or forget it. How much it's worth to your festival to have a named band like Zachary Richard or Wayne Toups;
-Zachary Richard priced himself out of availability 2 years ago. Happened to Clifton too. Only so much money. Can't buy bread with 50 cents. Worth to come for less money;
-Festivals Acadiens et Créoles was worth it to Zachary, even if he had to give all the money to his band;
-National park service, federal government has money. Just like the Grand Ole Opry, playing it for free;
-Start with a strict scale, and 3 shares only in exceptional cases. 2 shares to a band leader, 1 share a piece if more democratic;
-Quality less an attraction than outlet potential. Playing for visitors from whom they might get more gigs;
-National park service and the city of Eunice/Lafayette/Thibodaux as equal partners;
-High level of standards at national parks;
-Cooperative agreements. Put yourself at the mercy of the cooperator. Blending standards;
-Folk-type events put on by the national park service. Grassroots effort can be molded. Not just once a year, for a long time;
-Review committee? made up of all parties involved. "Think tank";

Content vs. Form:
-Leroy Martin--people don't understand the concept of a workshop. Learned skill;
-City of Eunice owns the Liberty Theater. High school play or Vaudeville/minstrel show. Remaining 'Acadian Culture National Park.' Working special shows through special work permits;
-Park service should have a pretty heavy reign for the first few years;
-Cooking demonstration (at the world's fair). 20-minute version of what actually happens. Not fun to sit and watch a gumbo boil for 1.5 hours. 3 demonstrations a day. Not huge portions. -Presenter. Allowing what normally happens in the kitchen. Whole meal, not just 1 dish;
-Storytelling/music jam in relation to cooking demonstration. Talking over the meal. Cooking is expressive culture. Expect guests to critique the color of the roux. Clapping at a performance, laughing at a joke. Cooking is a performance (dancing around the stove making a roux). Visual and audible that gets tasted. Dramatic, play up natural drama without getting Justin Wilson;
-Commentating on cooking, like at horse races. Barry did that when his mother (Maude Ancelet) went to Washington;
-Louisiana vs. Washington. People in Louisiana comment about how they do things differently;
-Easiest way to pick a fight in South Louisiana is to talk about religion, politics, or recipes. Everyone has a strong feeling about how things are cooked. Mama vs. mama defended by kids;
-Natural meal. Barry's father (Elmo Ancelet) came to Washington too with his barbecue pit and crawfish boiling pot. Talking about what he was doing while he was doing that. Little stick to keep the air going in, sitting in his lawn chair and visiting with family and friends. Wandering into their backyard, familiar to them;
-Presenting as much to outsiders as insiders;
-Daddy makes barbecue and mama made potato salad, wandering into a Cajun family. Family members help out in the demonstration;
-Gumbo/jambalaya will be ready in 1.5 hrs. Sit around and visit or go and check out other crafts. 1-2 couples to stick around and extra 20-40 minutes;
-Package it as a veiller or a visit to someone's kitchen. Make them understand better;
-Mrs. Louella, souper chez les Ménards, walking in with a notion of how to act. Presenter must extract himself from the kitchen and act as a mediator, a catalyst;
-Hiring Ulysse, Ray, and woman who helped Maude in Washington? to come down and train someone from Eunice;
-On-going training program to develop a corps of people who know how to do it well, same for music presenters. Barry, Jane, Ann is good at interviews;
-Music workshops, not an opportunity for people to toot their own horn. A personal visit. First, best, or any superlatives, presenter should move off of that;

Maida:
-Storytelling is a real problem, under-presented of traditional arts. Bilingual problem. All kinds of stories. C.J. Guilbeau got his backpack shot off by Germans in WWII, Barry's heard it 35 times.
-May change, but it has become a story;
-D.L. Menard recording 'The Back Door'. Lies, jokes;
-Nomenclature. Storytelling--fairy tales that are recognizable. Not necessarily for 3-5 year old. Felix Richard telling dirty jokes in Washington for one session and he ran loose. There was no kid in the audience, recorded by the Smithsonian;
-Advertising correctly. Children or adult stories. 'Memory' instead of 'oral history/storytelling';
-Park service interested in presenting and preserving cultural resources: Cajun storytelling in English AND French. Musicians wouldn't sing in English. Should be just as unthinkable;
-Storyteller like Alex Girouard. French and English sessions (separate) in order to not undermine the tradition in its truest form. Not just translating jokes. Storytellers figure out what works, immediate reaction from the audience (laughter, crying, shocking). Appreciating things for what they are;
-Visitor from Minnesota might be just as enriched to go to the one in French--tourism, reminding them their not home;
-Signs down Jefferson Street all in French so that visitors don't understand. People get impatient and wander off;
-Short storytelling sessions of 15-20 minutes with the ability to spill over if they'd like to;
-Exhibits, slide presentation--1 hour visit;
-Always be no less than 2 storytellers on a stage. Competition. Ideally 3-4, never more than 5. Mistake is presenting only 1 person, not a solo performance in its natural setting. People tell stories back;
-Eliminate audience intervention. Guys talking in a General Store with the outsider off to the side. Never in a straight line;
-Barry's pig roast. Musicians facing each other (jam/play for each other/experiment/comments) vs. in a line (performance). People sitting around them. In the middle of the potential audience with chairs on all four sides (circle). Visitors see what they are doing what they are doing already (zoo/sacred circle in Indian terms);
-Natural commentary, discussion (i.e.: where they first heard it, what key they normally play it in--no need for a presenter);
-4 podiums in Girard Park (Festivals Acadiens et Créoles) facing each other in a circle. Crazy idea, turning backs. Circular informance for themselves, haze around the backs of these musicians. -Best music found behind the scenes where performers are not performing;

Formal informality:
-Presenter needs to be sensitive, intermediary between inner and outer circle. Musicians talk to each other amongst themselves, especially musicians who don't normally play together like Dewey Balfa, Lionel Leleux, Don Montoucet, and David Doucet. Creating its own dynamic and wandering all over the place. People shut up and listen. Something very special, only between musicians;
-Normally what they do in workshops;
-Don Montoucet and the Wandering Aces, David and Michael Doucet, and Dewey Balfa--each would have a 15 minute set for the afternoon. Playing early evening. Warmed up and ready to go. Exchange;
-Lionel has claimed he doesn't play second fiddle, Dewey claimed he doesn't play harmony. Dewey discovered that he could to that. Calling Lionel at a festival;
-French storytelling preservation. Storytellers laughing causes audience laughing even if they don't understand. Their own interaction on stage like in Mamou and his father's barber shop. Close in the circle;
-Put everyone sitting on stools or around an ice chest. Need some kind of prop. Fish fry for Pascal's storytellers--waiting for something to happen. Stories kill time;
-Barbecue, crawfish boil, fish fry, someone shoeing horses. Integrating storytellers into something else. Don Montoucet making triangles. You wouldn't be able to stop the stories. Setting it up to be in French (the only ground rule). Presenter can bring them back if they stray too much, or priming the pump. Stop a dirty joke session by having a lady presenter like Jane or Kathy;
-Age and sex make a big difference depending on the content of the presentation;
-Make the storytellers part of the plan. Demonstrating to the public the ability of Cajuns to tell stories in French, avoiding as much in English as possible;
-Musicians who normally do everything in English done in French at festivals;
-Planning session with performers. Someone from the outside saying "this is what we want to do" vs. "this is what we want YOU to do";
-Costumes--no traditional costumes;
-Leroy Martin at the Vin Bruce thing, he knew exactly what Barry had hoped would happen. Showing the audience the natural symbiotic relationship between Cajun and Country music. Leroy understood how to get a message across, like Dewey (not everyone can do that);
-Have points/goals for some performances with some direction (extremely delicate, don't let a yoyo load that gun). Sometimes, you want them to be themselves;
-Old time radio, les bals de maison with theatrics. Content determined by participants. Hector Duhon used to playing minstrel shows. So huge and undertaking. Ann Savoy took the whole burden. Mounting and remounting it, 3-4 a year. Seasonal focus on some point;
-National park side needs more than just things 3-4 times a year. Not only providing a community theater, also need something frequent;
-Scheduling and programming formats;
-Jane doing the programming at the arch in St. Louis. Programming of 6 days, staff of 2 people. Every week from Memorial Day to Labor Day. Smaller thing for school kids. Weekend program with musicians and crafts people. One from Tuesday-Friday, another one Thursday-Sunday (Special events Thursday-Friday);
-Filling certain blocks;
-Scheduling storytelling and cooking demonstration. A person who is in charge of doing something, have to have a staff (even if it's 1). Like Ray and someone in Eunice/Thibodaux;
-Person in Eunice calling for more people. Sitting down with a list of themes. Making sure they get paid. Content and mainly administrator. Ray will govern the content. Corps of presenters will be volunteer staff;
-Tiny ? up at the Smithsonian. Get her down here to do some serious volunteer development guidance?;
-Burn-out factor. Already happening like for the Mardi Gras run. Not a burden, but a growing experience/opportunity for people;
-Dealing with retired people, housewives, disabled people would all love to make some money. It won't fly longterm with some money. Run-away burn-out problem;
-Michael Doucet knows to do this on whichever date, scheduled. Someone named Russell Fuselier from Eunice, not having people travel far;
-Dewey can cover more about the musicians. Setting up performances, scheduling musicians depending on time, number of groups, payment, etc.;
-Dewey's experience. What information do people need before you go. How much tender, loving care is enough/too much. What's necessary, not enough;
-How many performances a day is comfortable. His current experience;
-Glenn Arlen--cowboy singer. Big white mansion with a big log with all these blues musicians lined up with double-bladed broad axes. Folklorist trying to teach them a work song to chop this log. Glenn could see what was going to happen. Newport 1964, axes didn't work. Putting them on a rope, holding/pulling the rope. Fred McDowell's wife, Annie, with her red dress and her handkerchief;
-Force blues musicians whether they had their roots or not;

Varise Connor, Lionel Leleux:

-La Valse de Grand Bois/La Valse Alleman/La Valse des Mèches/You Want Me Back;
-Anna Mae Waltz--J.B. Fuselier;
-Memphis Blues;
-Une autre valse à Bascom Mouton;

Varise Connor, Lionel Leleux

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Ardoin Family at the Tenny Shoe Festival:

Alphonse "Bois-Sec" Ardoin (Accordion), Canray Fontenot (Fiddle):

-Eunice Two-Step (Jolie Catin/Chère Ici et Chère Là-bas/Cypress Inn Special/Eh, Ma Jolie Fille);
-Morris? Ardoin explains that was a Two Step. Only using an accordion, fiddle, and triangle in the 1930s. Showing how to dance a waltz;
-La Valse des Opelousas (La valse qui me fait du mal/La Valse de Duson/La Valse de St. Landry/La Valse de Stelly/La Valse de Bayou Chêne/Big Boy Waltz);
-Les Barres de la Prison (une baisse-bas, pas une valse);
-Jongle à moi;
-Bonsoir Moreau;

Ardoin Family Band:
-Fond de Culotte Two-Step? (similar to Evangeline/Saturday Night Special);
-La Valse de 99 Ans/Convict Waltz (Mermentau Waltz);
-Morris has trouble hearing the fiddle on stage;
-Petite ou la Grosse;

-Hey Mom, J'suis Toujours Ton 'Tit Garçon (23:25);
-Old-Fashioned Two-Step;
-Bois-Sec is feeling sick. He ate something that didn't agree with his stomach;
-Fais Pas Tout Ça (recorded by Bois-Sec and Canray);
-Hee Haw Breakdown (Mardi Gras Jig);
-"Qui C'est Qu'est Là"/Une Mouche Dans Mon Couche-Couche (Tous les Deux Pour la Même/Faire l'Amour Dans les Rangs de Coton/Les maringouins ont tout mangé ma belle);

-Jambalaya/Grand Texas (Alons Kooche Kooche) (45:32);
-Draggin' the Bow;

Ardoin Brothers and Sisters:
-Announcement: FM Guidry, please get to the car;
-Les Flammes d'Enfer;
-Je peux pas t'oublier (D.L. Menard) (They may call it something else);

-J'ai été au bal hier au soir (01:03:55);
-La Table Ronde (Canray singing);
-Barry announces festival t-shirts for sale on the side of the stage. Someone lost a silver earring;
-What Makes the Cajun(s) Dance (Au Bal Chez 'Tit Maurice);
-Kaplan Waltz (La Valse de la Pointe Noire/Chère Petite);
-Clifton Chenier and the Red Hot Louisiana Band after them. "The man is made of gold" (he lost a leg, had it amputated);

-Quoi Faire (Teche Special/Two-Step de la Prairie Soileau) (01:17:10);
-Barry tells Clifton to go see him backstage;
-Morris? introduces Clifton. He's still walking;
-Allons à Lafayette/Lafayette Two-Step (Jeunes Gens de la Campagne/Don't Get Married);
-Choupique Two-Step;
-Joe Pitre a Deux Femmes--Canray Fontenot. Bois-Sec is still too sick to perform);

-Mardi Gras Jig -Savoy, Balfa, Menard;
-Musiciens qui vont jouer à l'Hommage à la Musique Acadienne le 23-25 Mai, présenté par CODOFIL;
-Marc Savoy, Dewey Balfa, et D.L. Menard vont finir le jour Samedi, 24 de Mai;
-Festival dédié à Iry LeJeune cette année. Ramener une fierté d'être Cadien, parler le français Cadien, etc.;
-La Valse du Pont d'Amour (1948) - Iry LeJeune;
-15 ans sans accordéon pendant le Deuxième Guerre Mondiale. Pas Western Swing;
-Nathan Abshire, Lawrence Walker, Austin Pitre ont repris leur accordéons avec un peu d'influence de Western Swing, en français et traditionnel;

-1928 et 1932 on RCA Bluebird, first Cajun recordings. Dennis McGee and his brother-in-law, Sady Courville (7:43);
-Happy One-Step - Dennis McGee and Sady Courville;

-Dennis McGee avec le Mamou Cajun Band le matin du 25 (dimanche). Dennis a 84, il est pas vieux, mais là pour longtemps. Sady Courville, Roy Fuselier, Preston Manuel, la groupe qui jou tous le samedis soir chez Fred's Lounge à Mamou;
-Aldus Roger. La fin des 1950s et le début des 1960s, tous le fins de semaines/samedis dessus Channel 10 et 3-5 fois par semaine dans les salles de danses. Sa groupe a un son bien pratiqué;

-"Une danse qui faisait brailler les vieiles femmes," Madame Sosthène - Aldus Roger (13:23);
-Aldus Roger samedi matin. Aldus avait arrêté de jouer la musique avant 3-4 ans passé et il voulait laisser les jeunes jouer, mais l'envie de jouer était plus fort;
-Il a joué 3 ans passé au Festival, le 24 de Mai;
-Belton Richard va jouer le vendredi soir. L'année passée, le vendredi soir était si bien reçu qu'ils ont décidé d'en faire une autre cette année;
-Zachary Richard, Les Sam Brothers (Zydeco), et Belton Richard (né à Rayne et reste à Carencro). Belton bien influencé par Aldus. Belton avait le premier band d'avoir 7 membres dans un band, modernisé la musique dans les salles de danse;
-Snippet of the Perrodin Two-Step;

-Un Autre Soir Ennuyant - Belton Richard (18:21);
-Belton sera là le 23 de Mai (vendredi soir de 7-10 heures). Nouvelle partie du festival;
-Jambalaya était supposé de jouer le vendredi soir. La jeunesse. Les écoles, CODOFIL, etc. Encourager les jeunes de jouer avec les vieux pour préserver la culture unique qu'est ici. Ça devient de Cécilia et Pont Breaux. L'espoir pour la musique Cadienne dans l'avenir;
-Juste une partie des musicens Cadien et Créoles. 3 heures vendredi, et 11 AM - 6/7 PM samedi et dimanche;

-Waterfront Special - Jambalaya Cajun Band (23:09);
-Lafayette, Girard Park près de USL. 7ème Festival de la Musique Cadienne;

Paroles et Musique II (Presenation Littéraire à la Maison Française de USL):

-Mic check;
-Barry making the introduction/welcome;
-La naissance du littérature en français en Louisiane. Littérature des autres pays francophones;
-Philipe Gustin speaking for CODOFIL. Welcoming 11 Tunisians;
-Renaissance de créer en français, battre pour le français en Louisiane;
-Philipe était interdit de lire Raymond Queneau par son père. Comme faire un bon jambalaya, il faut svaoir comment bien cuire du riz;
-Mots--Poème de Raymond Queneau (Belgique) (6:31);
-Monsieur Quichotte de Maringouin--Poème lit par Matthew Champagne (Louisiane);
-Vents--Poème de St. John Perse - lit par Dominique Rozier (France) et accompagné par Mary Mahone dessus flûte (13:52);
-Le Pont de Nantes--Chanson de Guy Beart chantée par Frank Buynbroek (Belgique);
-Musique par Mary Mahone (Louisiane) (22:25);
-Chorale qui chante "Qu'il est difficile"? with reprise;
-Poème intitulé par un Québécois???;
-La Pluie--Musique de Vivaldi (Mary Mahone?) (30:56);
-Des Faux Jetons--Texte d'Emile des Marais lit par David Marcantel (Louisiane aka Acadie Tropicale);

Tape 1 of original tales of recording of Jan. 1974:

Victor Aubry--Broussard, LA:
-Bouki et Lapin. Saddling Lapin's riding horse. Told to Arthur R. Williams by Victor Aubry, a black farmer of rural Broussard, LA who is 63 years old and heard story from his father;

Anna Belle Hoffman Krewitz--Breaux Bridge, LA:
-Némostin? Billeaud. La mode des bidons (little black hat). Némostin est mort. Fouiller la fosse. Ils ont jamais pu faire sonner les cloches pour son enterrement;
-"La Douce Tristesse de la Séparation" sung to the tune of Home, Sweet Home. Shakespeare's idea of farewell from Romeo and Juliet?;
-"La Délaissée" - chanson d'amour. Pangs of unrequited love after an amorous adventure;
-Saute Crapaud;
-Chanson intitulé;
-Poetically active in the renouvellement of French in Louisiana;

Richard Guidry--Gueydan, LA:
-Une femme qui lavait la tripe de cochon au bord du bayou. Chien étrange--"Tu veux passer!" Couper le nez du chien. Chien devenir homme, ôter son gris-gris.
-Il avait bu le sang du poule noir à une croix de chemin à minuit pour devenir n'importe quoi qu'il voulait. Changer sa forme;

Nita Benoit--Lafayette, LA:
-Grosse serpent dans la vieille maison qui tétait la maman et a donné sa queue au 'tit bébé. Le bébé perdait du poids tous les jours. Tirer le serpent et le lait voler partout (12:36);

Odette Coussan--Carencro, LA:
-Bicoin dans mes choux;

Tante Hélène Lacy Dugas--Carencro, LA:
-Un petit bonhomme pas plus gros qu'un rat (Pas manger mes pommes quand je suis pas là);
-Chanson intitulé;
-Mme. Préjean--Bonsoir, C'est Aujourd'hui Ta Fête;

-Histoire de sa tante. La serpent donnait la queue au bébé et tétait la maman. Veiller toute la nuit et tuer le serpent. Mme. Philippe Domingue;
-Mme. George Billeaud? lives on St. Landry Street. No screen on the windows;
-Maman avait un matelas en paille de maïs, Sa mère a touché une corde, c'était une serpent. Manquer de la tuer;
-Les serpents attiré au lait. Elles étaient seulement en bas des lits des femmes, pas des hommes;
-Les serpents sécher les vaches;

-Rond, rond, rond. Le 'tit gourmand;

Mrs. Walter (Evelia) Boudreaux--Carencro LA:
-Bouki et Lapin et le jardin. (23:08);
-Lapin mangeait des chous tous les soirs et le fermier voulait le tuer ou le piègeait. Lapin passer des tappes et des coups de pieds et tout pour battre, mais il était pris. L'homme est venu le lendemain matin, il l'aurait tué ou l'envoyé dans les éronces. Lapin a embêté l'homme, Lapin dans son pays;
-L'étymologie de Carencro: Deux hommes à la chasse. Nommer la place après le premier oiseau qu'ils auraient trouvé. La bétaille du bayou crevé;
-Les enfants jouer au près du puit carré. Jaune dans le puit, c'était une meule de fromage. La pleine lune était réflectait dans l'eau. Deux baquets, descendre dans le puit pour chercher le fromage. Le 'tit garçon tombé dans le puit et ils ont jamais trouvé la meule de fromage;
-Argent enterré dans le temps des guerres, il y avait pas de banques. Oublier où c'était, et d'autre monde venir trouver le caveau. Chercher les bons outils et fouiller le caveau de brique. Un ouragon, des boeufs qui soufflaient du feu. Faire peur aux hommes, ils ont jamais trouvé l'argent. C'était pas pour eux, mais leur hérités. Ne pas parler tant qu'ils fouillait pour l'argent non plus;
-11 bandes? de 'tits ouaouarons;
-Assez gros pour sauter, manger, et jouer. Maman va à la chasse et averti les petits d'aller pas trop loin et de se bien comporter. Ils ont été jouer trop loin. Le gros boeuf. Le 'tit ouaouaron s'est gonflé pour montrer sa maman comment gros la bétaille était, mais il n'a pas pu avant de se gonfler de trop et de se casser ouvert;

-L'homme avec le nouveau cheval et boghei tout peinturé vert. Confronter celui qu'il l'a fait. Gros bougre se confesse à le faire. L'homme avait peur et a dit qu'il voulait juste dire que la première couche était sec et c'était paré pour une deuxième;

Wilson "Ben Guiné" Mitchell--Parks, LA:
-Bouki travaillait dur, Lapin a parti. Lapin pars et reviens, baptisant des enfants (4 fois). Les noms: Commencé, Half-and-half. Trois-quarts. Licher le fond. Lapin a mangé tout dans le baril de beurre, Bouki avait rien à manger. Bouki aurait ouvert Lapin. Fourrer Lapin dans les talles d'éronces. Là il était élevé;
-Lapin sort toujours avant;

-Grasshopper. (36:26)
-Froumi travaillait tout l'été. Grasshopper avait pas le temps à travailler, il jouait l'accordéon pour faire sa vie. Tout glacé pendant l'hiver. Froumi étiat dans sa maison, Grasshopper est venu cogner à la porte.
-Froumi a dit à Grasshopper à jouer l'accordéon pour faire sa vie. Grasshopper a gêlé dans les cannes de maïs;
-Bouki et Lapin avait un jardin. Quelque chose de malicieux. Coups de poings, rester collé à Lapin? Cette fois, Bouki a sorti en avant;
-Gros habitation. Travailler 50+ teams, comme l'esclavage. Travailler tous les dimanches. Couper ? en deux. Appeler le 'tit chien. Galoper. Le chien lui parlait en bas de l'arbre;

Marie Del Norte Theriot recounts a "Bouki et Lapin" story given to her by Albert A. Fuselier Jr. of St. Martinville, LA who collected it in 1947:
-Lapin est plus smart que Bouki, qu'est couillon. Bouki se roulerait dans la boue et Lapin le ferait croire c'est un matelas de plume. Chercher du beurre. Prendre Bayou Cocodril pour revenir.
-Lapin manger tout le beurre qu'ils rammenaient. Bouki n'est pas bête, ils savait c'était Lapin. Lapin guêllait et disait c'était Bouki qu'a mangé tout. Reposer en bas d'un arbre. Nique avec de la mousse. Bouki ronfler.
-Lapin a pris le beurre et l'a mis sur la figure à Bouki tant qu'il dormait. Lapin a accussé Bouki d'avoir mangé le beurre. Bouki a corru à la coulée et a regardé dans l'eau pour voir le beurre dessus sa figure.
-Il s'a cru d'avoir mangé le beurre sane le gouter. Il s'est noyé dans la coulée. Lapin sort tout le temps en avant, il est tout le temps plus smart;

Songs sung in Créole:
-Ah, Suzette, toi pas l'aimais moi;
-Suzanne, Suzanne, jolie femme;
-Fais Do Do 'Tit Nègre et Ton 'tit Bec est Doux;
-Danser Colinda Boo Doom, Boo Doom (Valse ou Mazurka);
-Mr. Bangeau/Banjo? (Jim Crow?);

-Bouki et Lapin (52:41);
-Bouki a voulu Lapin de venir fais do do, mais Lapin voulait pas. Bouki jeter Lapin dans les éronce ou dans le feu. Lapin voulait pas les éronce parce que ça aurait dériché son 'tit peau? Bouki l'a jeté dans les éronces, Lapin était dans son pays;

Mrs. Marius Babineaux and her granddaughter, Kathleen Domingue--Carencro, LA:
-Maman va à la grocerie est ordonne à Jean Sot de regarder l'oie et de soigner son petit frère. Mouche dessus le front de son frère, il a pris un marteau pour tuer la mouche, il a tué son 'tit frère. -Couvrir l'oie avec un sac? Jean Sot, viens ouvrir la porte.
-Pin Pi Poloron (jeu). Le boeuf;
-'Tite Sourris en Arrière de la Porte?;

-L'homme marchant de la Ville. Boule de feu, up and down. Courrir du feu, l'homme pouvait pas l'échapper. L'homme s'a mis à genou et a commencé à prier et le feu a parti. Un homme de Catahoula, il ne s'a jamais marié, jeune.
-Mort à 62 ans. Son idée était bon/il avait bonne connaisance quand il a dit cet histoire. Il croyait pour longtemps qu'il avait des maladies de coeur, il a été à l'hôpital de vétéran;
-Un autre homme de Catahoula qui chassait. Il a sorti des bois au ras du Bayou Catahoula et a trouvé une jarre. Prendre son mouchoir et le mettre dessus un arbre pour retourner. Il est revenu, la jarre était parti et il y a avait deux mouchoirs;
-Pas trouver de l'argent si ce n'est pas pour toi;
-Fouiller pour l'argent, un esprit est venu les demander ce qu'ils faisaient. Une a pris la parole et a répondu qu'ils cherchaient de l'argent. Donner une âme pour trouver l'argent. Un homme est mort;
-La jarre était ouvert quand ils sont revenus;

***Copy of AN1-215***

Lionel Leleux, Don Montoucet, Marc Savoy, Elton Quibodeaux, Ken Kepler, Rickey Dugas, Barry Ancelet:

La Dernière Valse:

-Marc Savoy on accordion, Lionel on fiddle, unknown guitarist and spoons player (possibly Barry?):
-Mardi Gras Jig (Hee Haw Breakdown);
-Port Arthur Blues (Tu vas me faire mourir). Lionel plays it again by himself;

-Enterre-moi Pas (Triangle Club Special) (8:44);
-Je peux pas t'oublier by D.L. Menard;
-Lacassine Special (Dans les Misères). Lionel by himself;
-Lionel plays a snippet of Pauvre Hobo;

-Ossun Two-Step. Lionel keeps playing it after the song is over (17:43);
-Johnny Can't Dance and Perrodin Two-Step (snippets);
-La Valse de Bayou Chêne (La valse qui me fait du mal/La Valse de Duson/La Valse de Dimanche Après-midi/La Valse de St. Landry/La Valse de Stelly/La Valse des Opelousas/Big Boy Waltz);

-Lacassine Special with unknown vocalist (25:27);

Don Montoucet and Lionel Leleux:
-La Valse de Bayou Chêne (see above);

Wilson "Ben Guiné" Mitchell:

-Tales

Wilson Ben Guine Mitchell

***Date unknown, circa 1984-1985***
***Copy of AN1-221***

Louis Delhomme (1895)
Scott WWI Vet

-Trip to Panama in hit teenage years, spending summers in New Orleans to his father's first cousin who kind of adopted Louis. The year the canal opened;
-Trip during WWI quite different, army trip. About 2 years away;
-Born in 1895. Last trip to Monte-ray, California. Going to the hospital. March 24th, 1895. Doctor didn't believe his age;
-Born and raised in Scott, worked at the post office for 45 years. Retired since 1960 (24 years ago). Wife died 13 years ago. Family tried to pull him to Lafayette, but he didn't move;

Education:
-Scott High School to SLI (now USL, 1909/1910). 4 year academic course. After the first four months (first term), you chose French or Latin. He chose Latin.
-Graduated SLI in 1914. 1st grade teaching certificate, about 20 years old at that time. Taught school for one year, but didn't like it;
-Civil Service Exam the following summer for the Scott post office. Got the notice in October, he was teaching at the Martin school. He quit and started at the post office in 1915;
-Leave of absence when the war broke out. Signing up because he didn't want to go into the infantry;
-Finding out about the war through the press. Drafting. It was 1917. Opening up a night school at SLI 2-3 times a week, prepare you to join the Single Corps. 8-10 of them attended and 2-3 singed up/enlisted;
-Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Not the penitentiary. Completed the course there and shipped him overseas. Frank Daigle and 1-2 other from Lafayette;
-Louis spoke French, connections in France. New York to Bordeaux on a French boat, horrible;

-He was aware of German U-boats. Bordeaux to Single Corps Battalion in Cour Cheverney, France;
-99% of American soldiers could not speak French. Louis and Alcé Breaux from Carencro (brother to Mrs. Vianney? Mouton) helped out to find place for the soldiers to stay. Billeting soldiers;
-Letter from the Mayor of Cour Cheverney 2 years ago, he couldn't find it. Kept contact. Mother kept contact with Mrs. Labbé until his mother died. Louis got married when he came back in 1918.
-Mrs. Labbé came over for the Bicentennial Celebration in 1976. Letter from her, her husband had died, daughter and son both married.
-She wrote Louis a letter from New York, she visited for the International Exposition with a group. 2 yeas after, she came down with her daughter and son-in-law and visited Louis. Coming back to Louisiana 2 years later;
-2 years ago, her son's daughter came to Louisiana with CODOFIL, stationed in New Iberia. Ex-post master from Lafayette, Ned Arceneaux and the ex-post master from Carencro, William Broussard, they and their wives visited France and met Mrs. Labbé;

-Attitude about the war. They didn't worry about it, it was overseas, not domestic (14:16);
-Louis just made up his mind, he had to go in the service. 21-22 yrs old single, no reason to not serve his country. He never used his knowledge from the Single Corps school. He served as an interpreter to the U.S. army;
-He has a hazy memory, he's 90 years old. WWI is a ways away;
-SLI for 4 years, getting the newspapers and keeping up with the war;
-America was in the war to stop Germans from taking over the world, threatening France. Necessary to fight Germans. No resistance to the U.S. declaring war against Germany;
-No going-away celebration, landing in Bordeaux, transferred into the Loire Valley. Alcé Breaux in the 10th battalion (neighboring towns). Louis was in the 9th. Alcé transferred to his outfit;
-First Sergeant. Corporal on the boat, crossing. Sergeant, then first class;
-Officer was an engineer, commanding officer for Cour Cheverney area. Offloading many Americans. Finding vacant French buildings to house the American soldiers. Paying rent to the French;
-Night of the armistice, Alcé Breaux got pneumonia, T.B. hospital, died a few years after at home? Empty buildings, part of the war;
-Wounded coming back from the fronts. Hospital in Loire? He was a patient with the flu just before he came back. Not seeing the very worst. No freshly-wounded soldiers. Interior of France. No gas. Shell-shocked soldiers?;
-Almost having to give up driving. Only son, Louis Jr. died?;

-Daily life in France during WWI. Not in army barracks, in French homes, 2-3 rooms upstairs. No military supervision. Billeting. Big celebration the night of the armistice. French people were very friendly. Brunet family. Welcome anywhere in those homes;
-No contact with the French or English army, no reason. Mostly American soldiers where he was.
-Meeting anyone who happened to be in Cour Cheverney. Louis always felt welcome, no resentment from the French people. 2 francophones in their outfit;
-Billeting quarters, keeping record of payments;
-French knew the Americans were there to defend the French from the Germans. U.S. President helped turn the tide of WWI;
-Not familiar with British tanks;
-Food in the trenches. U.S. government fed soldiers. All the wine they wanted in France. Developed a taste for wine over there. Drinking wine instead of water. No available water, musette bags. -Youth drank wine too. Difficult to wash up? Well water to shower;
-Pretty happy when he heard the war was over Nov. 11th. Came down with the flu in January, worked ceased;

-Outfit moved from Cour Cheverney to meet his original outfit to come back to the states. Left in the early spring (March) of 1918. Came back on a U.S. Navy boat, entirely different from the French boat they went over on (30:58);
-A couple of weeks to cross, food and atmosphere was rough. Summer time, left New York. Coming back was so different, pleasant;
-2 years in France, 1917-1918. Discharged in Shelby, Mississippi. Got $60 bonus, New Orleans then Lafayette by train;
-Bordeaux to New York, then discharged in Mississippi (by train). Pass to New Orleans, $60 pocket money. Pass to Lafayette or bought a ticket?;
-No reception in Lafayette, maybe not even in New York. The war was over. Celebration when the armistice was declared, none after;
-Immediate family picked him up at the station. Mr. Arceneaux went back to work where he was before. Farming for his father.
-Leave of absence from the post office, coming back to his old job. Unemployment was bad after the war;
-Mr. Arceneaux's $60 didn't last. Louis barely got a decent suit, getting money from home since his father was still living.
-Mr. Arceneaux was in the army. Single Corps a branch separate from the infantry, Mr. Arceneaux was in the infantry;
-No trouble readjusting to civilian life. Model-T Ford from storage. Horse and buggy before, pre-ATV going through water, mud, etc.;
-Going back on the job. Coming back in early spring, marrying Jacques Mouton's daughter in August. Sister of George Touchet?'s mother.
-He knew the family well, older sister. Staying with his parents until they bought their home in 1920. Son, Louis was born not long after they moved;
-Experiences in the war changing him? Drinking wine. Louis was ready to settle down. Louis Jr. born in June. Facing the unknown gave him food for thought.
-All in all, it was just a regular adjustment. Army detach service. Pretty lonely. Flu in early spring of 1918, anxiety;
-Life more or less stable at that stage. Day to day army stuff;

-Flu epidemic after the war in the U.S. Louis got the flu in France. His battalion moved before he left the hospital, came back with his old outfit;
-Locals in the war. American Legion Post #69 in Lafayette. Saint Martin Dupré's American Legion Post. Meeting veterans he didn't even know in the service. Active in the Legion after WWI;
-Louis had his Civil Service job waiting for him when he came back. He wanted to go to LSU after teaching for a few years. War put him in the army;
-Mutual Life of New York insurance company. Trying to leave the post office to go into life insurance.
-Thankful for 45 years at the post office, retirement. He wouldn't have gotten that from selling life insurance;
-Scott veterans. Moving to town or going back to the farm?;
-Cajuns that were drafted, some could hardly speak English. Reading and writing letters for them, in Fort Leavenworth (infantry). Claude Hebert, retired school teacher;

-People knew he was in the service, parents visiting him in Kansas before he left for France. Just a memory today (47:49);
-Boot camp, infantry branch. Single Corps Foundation Training in Fort Leavenworth. Boot camp, college backing, not much military training. Telegraphy, Single Corps work, Studying;
-Seeing men walking their boots off. Camp Pike in Alexandria saw the Dickens;
-Barry was born in 1951, between wars. He's only 33. Father still living;
-Louis' grandfather came from Bayou Lafourche, surprised to find Delhommes in Scott area.
-Close to the Scott Delhommes. C.J.'s father, Mrs. Dallas Hebert's father also. Not the same Delhommes;
-Country. Farming. Father had 50-acre farm. Walking to school, coming back and working in the garden. Louis' older brother milked the cows. Selling milk in Scott. Hitch up the horse and buggy and deliver milk in Scott before school;
-Before Dr. Prejean?;

-Interviewed Ulysse Arceneaux and wants to interview Claude Hebert. Louis was on the interior, he shot at no one and no one shot at him;
-Finding lodging for soldiers and paying rent to the French people. 5-10 Francs for each person each night.
-Quite a few billeting officers, U.S. soldiers sent over so quickly, needing to find lodging for them. Traveling little wars, like around the parish looking for vacant buildings. On their toes;
-Dog tents, two-man tents. Maybe on the U.S. side?;
-Officers in homes, paid more for their lodging. Louis didn't think it was just to pay rent, they should've gotten it for free.
-French demanding rent to be paid for lodging American soldiers. Lodging once they got to the fronts, but finding lodging in between;
-Château district;
-Visiting after he had the flu and waiting for the boat. 2 weeks to Paris (just another city) or Pyrenees mountains on the Spanish border. 16 of them went to the Pyrenees, wonderful vacation;
-Grotto of Lourdes, pilgrimage. Feast of the Annunciation (March/April 15).
-Taking the train, 5-6 Catholics going back to celebrate La Procession des Flambeaux, The Procession of the Candles. Book about the 3 stages where the apparition was, very sacred place;
-He never saw Paris. He saw a little of Bordeaux and the Pyrenees mountains;

Louis Delhomme

***Date unknown, circa 1984-1985***
***Copy of AN1-221, time code may vary slightly***

Louis Delhomme (1895)
Scott WWI Vet

-Trip to Panama in hit teenage years, spending summers in New Orleans to his father's first cousin who kind of adopted Louis. The year the canal opened;
-Trip during WWI quite different, army trip. About 2 years away;
-Born in 1895. Last trip to Monte-ray, California. Going to the hospital. March 24th, 1895. Doctor didn't believe his age;
-Born and raised in Scott, worked at the post office for 45 years. Retired since 1960 (24 years ago). Wife died 13 years ago. Family tried to pull him to Lafayette, but he didn't move;
-Education: Scott High School to SLI (now USL, 1909/1910). 4 year academic course.
-After the first four months (first term), you chose French or Latin. He chose Latin. Graduated SLI in 1914.
-1st grade teaching certificate, about 20 years old at that time. Taught school for one year, but didn't like it;

-Civil Service Exam the following summer for the Scott post office. Got the notice in October, he was teaching at the Martin school. He quit and started at the post office in 1915;
-Leave of absence when the war broke out. Signing up because he didn't want to go into the infantry;
-Finding out about the war through the press. Drafting. It was 1917. Opening up a night school at SLI 2-3 times a week, prepare you to join the Single Corps. 8-10 of them attended and 2-3 singed up/enlisted;
-Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Not the penitentiary. Completed the course there and shipped him overseas. Frank Daigle and 1-2 other from Lafayette;
-Louis spoke French, connections in France. New York to Bordeaux on a French boat, horrible;
-He was aware of German U-boats. Bordeaux to Single Corps Battalion in Cour Cheverney, France;
-99% of American soldiers could not speak French. Louis and Alcé Breaux from Carencro (brother to Mrs. Vianney? Mouton) helped out to find place for the soldiers to stay. Billeting soldiers;
-Letter from the Mayor of Cour Cheverney 2 years ago, he couldn't find it. Kept contact. Mother kept contact with Mrs. Labbé until his mother died. Louis got married when he came back in 1918.
-Mrs. Labbé came over for the Bicentennial Celebration in 1976. Letter from her, her husband had died, daughter married and son.
-She wrote Louis a letter from New York, she visited for the International Exposition with a group. 2 yeas after, she came down with her daughter and son-in-law and visited Louis. Coming back to Louisiana 2 years later;
-2 years ago, her son's daughter came to Louisiana with CODOFIL, stationed in New Iberia.
-Ex-post master from Lafayette, Ned Arceneaux and the ex-post master from Carencro, William Broussard, they and their wives visited France and met Mrs. Labbé;

-Attitude about the war. They didn't worry about it, it was overseas, not domestic (14:16);
-Louis just made up his mind, he had to go in the service. 21-22 yrs old single, no reason to not serve his country.
-He never used his knowledge from the Single Corps school. He served as an interpreter to the U.S. army;
-He has a hazy memory, he's 90 years old. WWI is a ways away;
-SLI for 4 years, getting the newspapers and keeping up with the war;
-America was in the war to stop Germans from taking over the world, threatening France. Necessary to fight Germans. No resistance to the U.S. declaring war against Germany;
-No going-away celebration, landing in Bordeaux, transferred into the Loire Valley. Alcé Breaux in the 10th battalion (neighboring towns). Louis was in the 9th. Alcé transferred to his outfit;
-First Sergeant. Corporal on the boat, crossing. Sergeant, then first class;
-Officer was an engineer, commanding officer for Cour Cheverney area. Offloading many Americans. Finding vacant French buildings to house the American soldiers. Paying rent to the French;
-Night of the armistice, Alcé Breaux got pneumonia, T.B. hospital, died a few years after at home? Empty buildings, part of the war;
-Wounded coming back from the fronts. Hospital in Loire? He was a patient with the flu just before he came back. Not seeing the very worst. No freshly-wounded soldiers. Interior of France. No gas. Shell-shocked soldiers?;
-Almost having to give up driving. Only son, Louis Jr. died?;

-Daily life in France during WWI. Not in army barracks, in French homes, 2-3 rooms upstairs. No military supervision. Billeting. Big celebration the night of the armistice. French people were very friendly. Brunet family. Welcome anywhere in those homes;
-No contact with the French or English army, no reason. Mostly American soldiers where he was.
-Meeting anyone who happened to be in Cour Cheverney. Louis always felt welcome, no resentment from the French people. 2 francophones in their outfit;
-Billeting quarters, keeping record of payments;
-French knew the Americans were there to defend the French from the Germans. U.S. President helped turn the tide of WWI;
-Not familiar with British tanks;
-Food in the trenches. U.S. government fed soldiers. All the wine they wanted in France. Developed a taste for wine over there. Drinking wine instead of water. No available water, musette bags. -Youth drank wine too. Difficult to wash up? Well water to shower;
-Pretty happy when he heard the war was over Nov. 11th. Came down with the flu in January, worked ceased;
-Outfit moved from Cour Cheverney to meet his original outfit to come back to the states. Left in the early spring (March) of 1918. Came back on a U.S. Navy boat, entirely different from the

-French boat they went over on (30:58);
-A couple of weeks to cross, food and atmosphere was rough. Summer time, left New York. Coming back was so different, pleasant;
-2 years in France, 1917-1918. Discharged in Shelby, Mississippi. Got $60 bonus, New Orleans then Lafayette by train;
-Bordeaux to New York, then discharged in Mississippi (by train). Pass to New Orleans, $60 pocket money. Pass to Lafayette or bought a ticket?;
-No reception in Lafayette, maybe not even in New York. The war was over. Celebration when the armistice was declared, none after;
-Immediate family picked him up at the station. Mr. Arceneaux went back to work where he was before. Farming for his father. Leave of absence from the post office, coming back to his old job. -Unemployment was bad after the war;
-Mr. Arceneaux's $60 didn't last. Louis barely got a decent suit, getting money from home since his father was still living.
-Mr. Arceneaux was in the army. Single Corps a branch separate from the infantry, Mr. Arceneaux was in the infantry;
-No trouble readjusting to civilian life. Model-T Ford from storage. Horse and buggy before, pre-ATV going through water, mud, etc.;
-Going back on the job. Coming back in early spring, marrying Jacques Mouton's daughter in August. Sister of George Touchet?'s mother.
-He knew the family well, older sister. Staying with his parents until they bought their home in 1920. Son, Louis was born not long after they moved;
-Experiences in the war changing him? Drinking wine. Louis was ready to settle down. Louis Jr. born in June.
-Facing the unknown gave him food for thought. All in all, it was just a regular adjustment. Army detach service. Pretty lonely. Flu in early spring of 1918, anxiety;
-Life more or less stable at that stage. Day to day army stuff;
-Flu epidemic after the war in the U.S. Louis got the flu in France. His battalion moved before he left the hospital, came back with his old outfit;
-Locals in the war. American Legion Post #69 in Lafayette. Saint Martin Dupré's American Legion Post. Meeting veterans he didn't even know in the service. Active in the Legion after WWI;
-Louis had his Civil Service job waiting for him when he came back. He wanted to go to LSU after teaching for a few years. War put him in the army;
-Mutual Life of New York insurance company. Trying to leave the post office to go into life insurance.
-Thankful for 45 years at the post office, retirement. He wouldn't have gotten that from selling life insurance;
-Scott veterans. Moving to town or going back to the farm?;
-Cajuns that were drafted, some could hardly speak English. Reading and writing letters for them, in Fort Leavenworth (infantry). Claude Hebert, retired school teacher;

-People knew he was in the service, parents visiting him in Kansas before he left for France. Just a memory today (47:49);
-Boot camp, infantry branch. Single Corps Foundation Training in Fort Leavenworth. Boot camp, college backing, not much military training. Telegraphy, Single Corps work, Studying;
-Seeing men walking their boots off. Camp Pike in Alexandria saw the Dickens;
-Barry was born in 1951, between wars. He's only 33. Father still living;
-Louis' grandfather came from Bayou Lafourche, surprised to find Delhommes in Scott area.
-Close to the Scott Delhommes. C.J.'s father, Mrs. Dallas Hebert's father also. Not the same Delhommes;
-Country. Farming. Father had 50-acre farm. Walking to school, coming back and working in the garden. Louis' older brother milked the cows. Selling milk in Scott. Hitch up the horse and buggy and deliver milk in Scott before school;
-Before Dr. Prejean?;

-Interviewed Ulysse Arceneaux and wants to interview Claude Hebert. Louis was on the interior, he shot at no one and no one shot at him;
-Finding lodging for soldiers and paying rent to the French people. 5-10 Francs for each person each night.
-Quite a few billeting officers, U.S. soldiers sent over so quickly, needing to find lodging for them. Traveling little wars, like around the parish looking for vacant buildings. On their toes;
-Dog tents, two-man tents. Maybe on the U.S. side?;
-Officers in homes, paid more for their lodging. Louis didn't think it was just to pay rent, they should've gotten it for free.
-French demanding rent to be paid for lodging American soldiers. Lodging once they got to the fronts, but finding lodging in between;
-Château district;
-Visiting after he had the flu and waiting for the boat. 2 weeks to Paris (just another city) or Pyrenees mountains on the Spanish border. 16 of them went to the Pyrenees, wonderful vacation;
-Grotto of Lourdes, pilgrimage. Feast of the Annunciation (March/April 15). Taking the train, 5-6 Catholics going back to celebrate La Procession des Flambeaux, The Procession of the Candles. -Book about the 3 stages where the apparition was, very sacred place;
-He never saw Paris. He saw a little of Bordeaux and the Pyrenees mountains;

Louis Delhomme

***Date unknown***
***See AN1-230 for part two of interview***
***Attached link/recording is a dub cassette Maxell Communicator Series C60. Original Memorex a little worse quality/more tape hiss/noise***
***Because the original was catalogued and the dub is linked (due to better quality), the time code may vary slightly from what is in the catalog)***

Ulysse Arceneaux (I)
Born in Carencro in 1897

-Discharge papers. Barry wants to know where they went;
-When the war broke (April 5th or 6th), the recruiting officer came to the Pillion mill in Patterson. Recruiting officer went, a lot of friends left, but 4-5 stayed because they were young and felt bad seeing them go. Big band sent them off;
-May 5th, joining the army in New Orleans a little over 18 years old. Why he didn't go the first time, he was sick with malaria and weighed 135 lbs. Afraid they would take his friend and not him;
-Jackson barracks in New Orleans, then Sam Houston in San Antonio until June. Syracuse, New York until September. New York City by train, landing in Liverpool, England and going to South -Hampton for 5-6 days. Crossing the English Channel into Le Havre, France. Feeding them boiled fish. Cold day like today/yesterday (drizzling rain);
-1st division had the kitchen. Going with the 2nd division, getting a kitchen if they want to help out and peel potatoes. Best meal he had in his life;
-40 hommes, 8 chevaux (40 men, 8 horses);
-Riding almost a day to Abbéville. Talking French to the Frenchmen, serving as a translator. The Company Interpreter. Their French was understandable. Meeting a soldier at the depot, ended up at the truck station. La gare. Asking for "la masion de court," "le palais de justice";
-First stationed in the mountains in the southern part of France, Sila Cote? Government property? Stationed there until going to the front (la demi-lune) for about 15 days;
-Château-Thierry, where they stopped the Germans. French gave up, they thought the Americans were going to kill themselves. They didn't like the other francophone, he was a Lagneaux from Acadiana.
-Ulysse never saw him when they came back. Not telling the other soldiers what the French were saying. Shooting machine guns, stopping the Germans and pushing them back. The turning point of the war;
-Big cisterns of wine, wine all over the streets in Château-Thierry;
-$2 million barrage, shooting for 2 days. Driving there. Going into Germany from there;
-November 11th, day of the armistice. Going home pretty soon. Walking from France through Belgium into Germany;
-Around Thanksgiving Day 1918, they were in Belgium. Brussels. Finding 3-4 dozen eggs for the officers, omelettes;
-Germans didn't want to speak French, the end of his interpretation;
-Ranked as a cook, paying him the salary of a sergeant. $47.60/month. He started at $15/month for the first two months;

-First leaving Louisiana. Drilling them at boot camp in civilian clothes for 4-5 days. Big shot once he got his uniform. Re-enlisting in France, ran out of blanks. He would've stayed in France another 4 years (14:50);
-Pillion mill in Patterson was harder work than the army;
-Building a supply base. Fellows who worked in the offices were working outside. Ulysse didn't have to do that, just stay with the officers and interpret the Frenchmen;
-San Antonio to Syracuse, NY with the 9th infantry. Split into 3 regiments, 9th, 23rd, and another (5-6th marines??). Recruiting people from New York and New Jersey. Norfolk, VA to do ship work. 3 from Patterson, 2 brothers (Alcé and Sidney Lagrange in the 23rd);
-Going right after war was declared, not too much news. Finding out about the war through the newspapers, posts all around the saw mill;
-Joining because all of his friends had left. They felt like slackers. Getting scared over there, bombardments. There when they shot the canons, he thought they hit him and he had a broken leg.
-"Another one coming, run to the cellar. You ain't got no broken leg." Fool or liar if they say they weren't scared;
-Kitchen in the woods in Château-Thierry, sleeping in foxholes. President Theodore Roosevelt's son was shot down not too far from where they could see the plane coming down. German plane on top of him brought him down;
-Not too many airplanes, just fighting planes (2 men: the pilot and the one with the machine gun). No bombers. He wouldn't do it again, but he wouldn't give up his memories;
-22 yrs old when he came back. Pretty rough. $60 and one's month pay, discharged in Mississippi. $100-somewhat dollars, he thought he was rich.
-Working for $1.25 at the saw mill in Patterson. Buying clothes, not enough to buy a suit for church and more because the prices went up;
-Going to visit his brother in Vacherie. Assistant Penny Mill Foreman. Getting him a job grading the molding $5 a day. Closed 2 months after. L.J.'s and working for the railroad;
-Going to be a barber. Italian boy from Pennsylvania was a barber. Cooks worked a day, then had a day off. Going to barber college in New Orleans. Working in New Orleans, then Napoleanville. -Left when there was only enough business for the other barber;
-Coming to Lafayette to see his sister, then Port Arthur/Beaumont to work for a little. Meeting his wife when his sister was working at the store. Made a date with her, going to the barber shop the next morning and meeting a guy he grew up with. Working there for a while, but he didn't like it too much;
-Fellow from Rayne said they needed a barber in town. Working in Rayne in 1920 for a while. Mr. Dorsey had a shop by the depot and offered him $25 a week and room and board for 6 months. -Girlfriend lived in Lafayette. A lot of money back then. Working until 1927, just before the high water. Working for Mr. Broussard;
-Moved from the depot to the city barber shop. Working for Mr. Broussard from 1927 until 1932. Moving to Vermilion Street. Mr. Dorsey moved on Vermilion Street and left the barber shop.
-During the Depression, cutting kids' hair for 15 cents and adults' for 25 cents. 1932 when he went there;

High water of '27 (30:53);
-The levee broke around Morganza. Bringing people from St. Martin Parish to Lafayette. The next day, they were on the side of the road. Leaving the barber shop, moving Dr. Young's office from -Breaux Bridge to Lafayette. 5-6 vehicles got stuck, motorboats to help out. Water came as far as C.O. Theriot with the nice home, the water stopped there. Right by Chrsitian Bros. house. Road to Lake Martin on the left;
-Fellows had tents, cooked there for 3 days. Dan Mouton was in charge. Moving people at night. Store across from Heymann was empty, registering them there and figuring out how many people were there.
-A lot of houses in Crapaudville were vacant since saw mills shut down. Coffee and sandwiches for them, working. Not going home for 3 days and taking naps in between shifts;
-Red cross came, 2 men and 2 women. Glad they came over to relieve them. Just coming to inspect. Taking care of their own people, get out if they didn't come to work. Staying at the Evangeline Hotel for 4 days and not doing anything. Not giving the Red Cross any money;
-Bad accommodations. Big barracks. Shower once a week with a tank. Soap yourself and rinsed/hosed off. Staying in the wooden barracks, American engineers? had that built when they got there;
-2-story building, 14 days going across to France. Nothing to drink. Wine and beer. French people sip wine. Trouble paying with American money, exchanging for French money. Asking for bottles of wine, Americans drinking wine like water;
-Country boy like him didn't know too much about money. Getting paid in francs once they got to France. 5 francs and 50 centimes for $1 USD;
-Joining the army was his first time to New Orleans. People didn't go anywhere, no roads, no transportation. Taking the train to go somewhere;
-He spoke a little English, mostly French. Everyone spoke French in Carencro. Only knew French when he went to Patterson in 1914 (ran him out of Carencro, joke). Picking up enough English working in Patterson. His two brothers lived there;
-Water boy on Plantation by the airport, 2 buckets of water, a barrel, and a little mule. 1 bucket for whites, 1 for blacks. Sugarcane. They wouldn't drink too much when they'd get to the end of the row where the water was. They'd holler from the other end of the field and he'd have to go;
-Not having an easy life;
-Brother talked to the Foreman in Patterson when he got old enough to get him a job at the mill. Started out at 75 cents a day from 6 AM to 6 PM. Raised to $1 a day. A check a day, cashing it in the office. Mr. Watson asking him what he'll do with all the extra money. He wanted to tell him he'd save it, buy the place, and can/fire Watson;
-$1.25. Grading lumber got $1.50 a day;
-Old Man Stenson's restaurant at the Golden Hotel? (Pop Stenson). He was a shipping clerk, making $75/month. He was mean, Ulysse didn't work with him. Stenson was in the lumber yard yelling. Talking bad to the waitresses? Ulysse told him something and he got mad;

-Born in Carencro where the colored Catholic Church is. The church is on their old property (44:34);
-Living in Lafayette after the war. Raised 2 miles on the other side, Bernard Road now going towards Sunset at the second railroad crossing;
-People didn't care about them when they came back, they had just been in the army. They didn't realize what soldiers had been though;
-Men who were on the fronts didn't talk about the war. Missing soldiers dead or wounded. Medics help, not soldiers next to the sick/wounded. Half don't come back. Those who talk about the war probably didn't go to the fronts;
-He doesn't like war pictures/movies because they never show how it really was. Not wanting to see video from the Normandy invasion on tv. It's not an easy thing;
-Frenchmen having their hands out all the time;
-Riding the subway for the first time in Paris, stationed in Germany. Pass/furlough. Not too many to go to Paris. Some to Berns, Switzerland. Ulysse and an older fellow shot dice and won some money. Going to Nancy, France and changing trains to go to Paris.
-He thought the Frenchmen would pull them off the train. Staying in Paris for 3 days, they weren't supposed to go. They should've gone to Berns. One fellow pulled it off before and told them what to do;
-Girls in sidewalk cafés;
-Métro, subway in French;
-Getting on the ship at Brest, came from Germany. Camp on a hill. Wash holes to clean up before going home. Staying there 4-5 days. First good bath since he was there;
-Ulysse just went once into the trenches at the "half-moon" (la demi-lune);
-They knew there were new soldiers? Sazine?, the Italian fellow. Observation port. Germans broke in, they could hear them. Rifles and hand grenades in case they came through. Getting a hand grenade ready, they turned around and went the other way. Bravery because they didn't abandon their post;
-La Croix de Guerre. He doesn't brag about that. He was scared in that trench, He knew they weren't American because he cold hear;
-Mud. Digging trenches. Holes covered up where soldiers slept. Coming at night to bring food. Backpack full of hardtack and emergency rations in case they couldn't get the soldiers food.
-Sandwiches, boiled meat. Camouflage buckets. Sometimes, coffee;
-Frenchman had it hard to dig the trenches. Digging it ahead of time;
-Sleeping in the trenches, staying wet all the time;
-People think he makes some of this up. People like all those war pictures because they maybe forgot what it was like;
-Not too much rivalry between the army and the marines, it started when everyone came back. Everyone was looking for their "coin" "couenne"???;
-Dirty-looking fellow when they came back. Water wagon is coming today, getting ready. Tent over you to go from barracks to streets. Shower. Wiping yourself in the barracks. This guy was always absent. The captain ordered the others to take him out and give him a bath. Getting a bar a soap from the kitchen;

Ulysse Arceneaux

Stanley Arceneaux (born 1897);

***Chris captured all but first and last bits of A side***

-Going to France;
-He went up to the 6th/7th grade in school. Learning English in school;
-Signing up for the army April 6th, 1917 (the first day WWI was declared in the U.S.) because he was just patriotic. He was 19/20 years old (born in 1897 in Carencro);
-Reading the newspaper and finding out when the war was declared. Going to Baton Rouge to enlist in the army and staying in the army until August 1919;
-Baton Rouge to New Orleans for a couple of weeks. Then stationed in Camp Nickels, Camp Beauregard (leaving camp in August 1918);
-How was camp? Guard duty. Milling the wood to make Camp Beauregard in 1917;
-President Wilson declaring war because the Germans sunk an American ship (Lusitania) in the English channel;
-He didn't know anything about Germany at that time;
-Staying in the New Orleans for 4-5 months before the war. Staying in Lafayette when he joined;
-Camp Beauregard, training for combat was tough. Split his company in two and drilled. Training a year;
-Rank of Corporal then. Drawing maps;
-Straight to Europe from Camp Beauregard. Hoboken, New Jersey to Marseilles, France;
-Trip to France on the President Grant, 7,000 on that boat;
-Food was good;
-Shipped out of Marseilles, landed in Brest. Camp Brest for 8-10 days, then marched a whole day to a camp in Le Mans for 5-6 months until the end of the war;
-Not seeing any battles, he was a French Interpreter;
-He liked the French, most got along with the Americans. Criticism because many couldn't speak French;
-Training a couple of weeks before sending them to the war. Trench warfare;
-Life in the trenches wasn't very pretty. He only went in the trenches to train. It was muddy, up to your knees;

-The weather was pretty bad, especially the winter. Snow on the ground. Flu epidemic (10:25);
-Experiences with wounded soldiers, not much other than seeing them coming back from the front and being sent to the hospital;
-The war didn't really make an impression on him;
-He was too young to realize what was going on, he doesn't know what he thought of the war;
-Living in barracks in France, sometimes tents, sometimes in barns on French farms. Going around the country with lieutenants to make requisitions for the soldiers;
-The U.S. government had to pay for rent and damages to properties. Tearing down the side of a barn to use the wood for heat. Repaying damages;
-Staying from November 1918 until August the following year. He was glad to come back home after he heard the war was over;
-Never met any English soldiers;
-Using gas during the war. Gas masks, taking them off just to get a whiff of the gas. Mustard gas;
-Gas wasn't too good;
-It wasn't too bad for him because he was working with the French policemen, eating with the French at their house;
-He liked the French, the crippled, women, and children?;
-War devastated the French. They came almost to Paris, through Belgium. Using taxi cabs to bring soldiers to the front. Not too many trucks at that time;
-Hauling material with the trucks. Lots of walking;
-One day, sleeping all night on a bare cement floor. Eating hard tack, walking all day long, pouring down rain. 12 hrs and 66. Hard tack and canned meat. It was tough;

-A brother in the same company with him. Separated over there. He was sent to officer training school 6 months before the war was over. Not seeing him until they came back home (19:15);
-He became a Second Lieutenant while in France;
-Enlisted man vs. Officer life, not much difference. Duties changed;
-What was it like when they came home;
-Discharged in New Jersey, Camp Merit. Coming home on a train;
-$100-something to buy his tickets and expenses to get home;
-Economy had changed a whole lot, everything was more expensive when he came back. Shirt for $1 vs. $10-12;
-Working in an automobile shop as a mechanic. Learning from a New Orleans trade school. He was only working for a few weeks when war was declared;
-Going to work on the railroad from 1922-1963 (41 years service on the railroad);
-Americans had understood where he had been, what he had been doing;
-Barry found 3 other WWI Vets from Scott: Claude Hebert, Louis Delhomme, Lucien Domingue;
-Picking peaches. Train blew from L'Anse La Butte to Breaux Bridge. Boys without legs and arms affected her. The first thing they wanted to give was a bullet. She didn't want that. She was a little girl;
-She married a WWI Vet, his time, not hers;
-Julien still in Breaux Bridge, giving up his home because no one could help care for him. Government projects;
-Picking and eating peaches. Getting sunstroke?;
-Most of the boys were from St. Martin Parish. Wounded soldiers. Lady cooking across the depot in Breaux Bridge. "Doo Doo" coming on the next train;
-Her brother had a record of 365 days of combat in WWII, he's on a pension, but he came back all in one piece. Bullets went through;
-Dying of a heart attack, got hurt in an automobile accident with a fractured skull. 52 when he died. He didn't get hurt in the war;
-Her and her momma were sick. Old French doctor (Dr. Fourgeau?) prescribed drinking three glasses of wine a day along with cold medicine? He came to the U.S. after the war, didn't know anything about the flu;
-Bernice, born after that;
-Putting the war...?;

-MPs. Transferring from one camp to another. Young boy didn't want to take orders (30:25);
-Training. Whipping one that wouldn't give in. He was as tough as a mule, from Cecila. Dupuis fellow;
-WWI drafted crippled, insane. He was almost insane?;
-Coming back from WWI, falling in love with a girl and starting a family. Army in WWI, Navy in WWII. He's 4-5 months younger. Oklahoma. Smart guy;
-Working on a farm, smothering potatoes and cooking eggs for breakfast;
-Applying for a pension, wanting to get out because he was hurt all over. Trying to work, but not being able to stay on a job. No pension because he didn't complain at the time. Her brother;
-Sending to Mississippi to get discharged;
-One telephone in Carencro. 78 Breaux, store had a telephone. No automobiles, no gravel roads;
-Born on a farm, just before you get to Canrencro on the right between the railroad tracks and the highway;
-55-acre farm where they grew cotton, corn, potaotes, sugar cane and syrup mill;
-Comeaux lived in Leroy?;
-Never having been to school, J.J. Press/French? and Gaston Hebert, never went to school, but went to USL;
-His brother went to high school, but he went too;
-J.J. never went to school and was appointed as W.P. Learning to write their name and their occupation;
-Not everyone could go, like Ulysse. Had to be somewhat disabled;
-People moving from the country to town. J.J. from Loreauville. Going to USL to learn a trade;
-Winston/Wilson has that office;
-Husband going on the railroad after the war because he had a big family and they couldn't give him what he wanted. He could work and keep what he made for himself;
-First experience making money. Selling cotton to make a little bit of money;
-Gaston learning to read. Watchman to chief of police. He was smart, too bad he didn't have education;
-No schools back in the day. Private schools;

Stanley Arceneaux (born 1897)

***Date unknown, only estimation***
***There is a dub cassette Maxell Communicator Series C60. Copy is worse quality than the Memorex tape, but the interview is more complete (there is more information) on the Maxell tape***

Fernest Crochet (born 1895) with Louis Delhomme?:

-Il était 7 mois dans l'armée, il est rentré dans le dernier draft. Le premier qu'a été lâcher;
-Il a été draft le 28 de Mai. Le Lâche le 5 de Décembre 1918?:
-Pas habitué à la guerre. Asteur, ils sont. Plus un tas des vétérans de la Première Guerre;
-Battre contre Kaiser. Aider les français;
-Son frère était dans la guerre, marié avec Mimi. Asteur, ils emmènent des soldats par helicopters. Les autresfois, il fallait marcher 2-3 jours. Les squelettes parterre. Aller dessus le front;
-Ses amis dans sa compagnie ont été imprionnier. Un parlait français, il était chanceux qu'il est pas mort;
-Marcher un jour et une nuit. Casser son cou. Passer un clos des choux. Manger un pomme de choux;
-"Chouc" parlait nègre (Créole). Ses deux amis sont morts. Ses deux frères qui étaient dans la guerre sont morts;
-Il est le plus jeune de 8 garçons et il est le seul qui reste. "Il faut le prendre comme ça vient.";
-Il est né à Loreauville en 1895. Il a pas eu une journée d'école et il a fait sa vie sans éducation;
-Venir à Scott le 5 de Février 1917 pour fouiller des canals pour 10 ans avec son beau-frère (Dugas);
-L'eau rentrait dans les bogheis. Il y avait pas de ponts. Des chemins en gravails et les pont en ciment en 1918;
-Fouiller jusqu'au pont dessus un bâteau. Fouiller à pelle et à brouette;
-Revenir, son bâteau était défait à Duson. "Boy" Prejean. Lever la rue entre Scott et Duson;
-Old-timers in Scott know the history of how they were raised. Walking to school, working in the fields when they got back, milking cows. Youth don't have to do that;
-Registering for the draft in 28 Mai 1917;

-3 mois à bootcamp (9:55);
-Flatfoot. Le vieux docteur. Marcher des milles et des milles. Venir le chercher le lendemain, partir avec son linge d'hiver. Il pouvait pas aller avec sa compagnie/tous ses amis;
-Faire la garde à la Nouvelle-Orléans, shipyard à Slidell;
-Basic training was hard June-August, les plus chauds mois de l'année. Les hommes qui tombait qui n'étaient habitué à travailler dehors;
-President Wilson. Un tas de monde ne savait pas rien du président, Louis lisait la gazette;
-Aller à Camp Beauregard, puis la Nouvelle-Orléans, Sidell shipyard. Port Arthur 3 ans avant l'armée. Il a quitté de la maison à 18 ans (1914). Son père était rough;
-Homme d'Ibérie et son retaurant. Des rafineries. Tous les Cadiens qui ont été au Texas. Sa mère est mort quand il avait 8 ans, et il courrait la maison à 10 ans à cuire du manger jusqu'à 16 ans;
-Rester avec l'homme de l'Ibérie pour 3 ans à $3/semaine. Il avait sauvé $400;
-Aller à l'Ibérie. Son jeune frère et soeur. Deux 'tits chevaux et un wagon pour aller au dépot et hâler des affaires. Son frère de 14 ans. $200 pour envoyer son frère à l'école. Il est mort, sa 'tite soeur vie toujours à Port Arthur;
-Il a fait une bonne vie, bien élevé ses enfants. Harold a resté 35 ans dans l'armée et a retire et il fait un tas d'argent asteur;
-Il ne parlait pas l'anglais du tout quand il a quitté de la maison, il a appris un peu à Port Arthur;
-Louis? lisait et écrivait des lettres pour ceux qui ne pouvaient pas lire ou écrire;
-2 bougres qui pouvait pas parler anglais du tout et les officiers étaient dur sur eux. Ils les faisaient courir parce qu'il ne parlait pas anglais. Ça braillaient;
-Rosément Forestier. Il faisait un tas des farces. 7 ans à l'école. Faire de la misère. Il a été, mais a pas rien appris. Signer un pétition pour le lâcher;
-Lui faire de la misère pendant la Seconde Guerre;

-La Salle de danses des Forestier (20:32);
-Revenir à Scott. Discharged. Ils l'ont appelé "Ernest" au lieu de "Fernest." Camp Beauregard à Alexandrie;
-Dépot au ras de minuit. Les soldats étaient respectés. La femme qui les ont donné des bons lits pour dormir. Les réveiller avec du café tout fait;
-C'est tout dans le passé. Prendre le char d'Alexandrie à Lafayette. Il n'y avait pas de réception. Il a été voir sa belle (Claudia), puis ses parents à Loreauville. Sa belle venait premier;
-Rencontrer sa femme quand elle avait 14 ans. Enregistrer. Elle avait un play à l'école. Danser dans la poussière. 65 années il sont mariés. 22 de Janvier 1920;
-Louis? has also been married for 65 years, he was married in 1919. She died in 1971. Arterial collapse. She was 71 when she died;
-Pas comme Claude Hébert? Not marrying after his first wife, he couldn't love another;
-Rencontrer sa femme avant la guerre. Elle l'a ésperé. Elle est venu au dépot et a braillé un peu. Pas de musique pour les envoyer;
-Il soignait le peu d'argent qu'il gagnait. $26/mois. L'assurance payait. Pass to go home;
-Les capitaines avaient des bottes en cuire;
-Pas dur pour reprendre son ouvrage, la même affaire comme avant;
-La guerre a changé leur vie. En boghei et des chemins de terre quand ils ont premièrment commencé à travailler, puis des Model T Fords;
-Travailler chez Landry, pas être capable d'aller sa belle-mère. 4 miles pour aller chez lui, mais le chemins étaient si mauvais;
-Young people nowadays won't keep a job if it's too hard/if they don't like it;
-Murder of Martin Begnaud et les 'tits français. Avant leurs temps. Les français l'ont tué et ont volé de l'argent. Aller en France. Revenir à Scott les prendre;
-Foreman's Dancehall in Scott. Accordion. 10 o'clock, gumbo downstairs. House parties;
-Lucien Domingue - musicien de fêtes de campagne. Plus vieux que Fernest et Louis. Il a fait 90 ans, et Mr. Hébert sont les plus vieux vétéran dans la paroisse;
-Mr. Guidry est toujours alright?;

Fernest Crochet (born 1895)