Stories told by Mr. and Mrs. Walter & Evelia Boudreaux

Accession No.: 
AN1-059

0:00 - contes: knife fight
-les Guilbeau contre les Landry, les Meche et les Melancon, les Meche et les Rogers; Marais Bouleur, Ossun

4:44 - la bataille aux courses chez Payo Morin: Stelly vs. Quibodeaux; someone died in knife fight near Arnaudville
-Officer Martin Webre and his stick/pistol; Mr. Walter and his father-in-law went to St. Martinville for the trial
-Martin Begnaud a été tué par les petits Français
-Walter Boudreaux thinks they hanged the French people in Scott - there's a book about the story (Baleine/Badon?)

11:42 - Les musiciens dans les salles de danse
-Joe Robin et son garçon, Joe Falcon, Guidry, Ozémé et Oswell 'Chaoui', Lawrence Légeret
-Joe Falcon was the most popular but charged enough to make money
-Walter Boudreaux thinks Lawrence Walker was in Texas at that time; Foreman's dancehall just outside of Scott; politician dances

15:38 - Cousin Dudley LeBlanc; Boudreaux's son was able to go to Southwestern but ended up dropping out
-There was no work because he was too young, so Leblanc hired him at Hadacol
-he was fired, rehired and ended up receiving a scholarship to go back to college
-Dudley Leblanc running for governor - gave speeches and had barbecues

24:10 - Régis Boudreaux (Walter Boudreaux's uncle) - moonshiner/whiskey maker, fighter, politician and bouncer, friends with Dudley LeBlanc
-Régis selling his whiskey/moonshine

27:37 - Moonshining against the law in the area, all hidden - recipe for whiskey (with corn, sugar, and water), hot spots
-old moonshiner René Guilbeau is 80 years old
-Régis and Edouard Derousselle from Arnaudville were the biggest moonshiner in the area
-faire du whiskey à La Prairie Ronde; les mauvaises places: Marais Bouleur, doesn't know about Mamou/St. Landry - had fights everywhere
-Walter Boudreaux recounts a fight he witnessed

35:25 - Régis Boudreaux: constable, canaille, general - not sure if he was a moonshiner/whiskey maker at that time
-He couldn't shoot a man; Régis' uncle caught the black man and brought him to Opelousas
-Régis and someone else were getting there as the black man was entering the courthouse
-Régis était un homme dur, died around 75 years old. His brother Albert got shot and had a stroke
-Dr. Pavi from Leonville going to see Albert at hospital in Opelousas
-Dr. Pavi and Régis waited for each other to initiate conversation

43:09 - Kids picking on Evelia Boudreaux's father at St. Charles College in Grand Coteau because he was so short
-Régis went before her father and uncle (taller than her father)
-Régis told her father he'd stop the teasing; he pulled a knife and the teasing stopped then
-her father and Régis were both short men, expect Régis wasn't afraid of anything
-Walter Boudreaux was 16-18 years old (1917/18). Walter Boudreaux is 75 and Evelia Boudreaux is 70
-Régis et Darrell étaient amis; Jean, an uncle; Meche shot a black lady's dog on the way back from a dance
-The next day, he went to Walter Boudreaux's grandfather and told him where he went

Media Type: 
Audio
Collection: 
Ancelet
Subject: 
Louisiana; Cajuns; Folk tales; Oral history
Creator: 
Barry Jean Ancelet
Informants: 
Walter Boudreaux & Evelia Boudreaux
Recording date: 
Thursday, March 17, 1977
Coverage Spatial: 
Carencro, LA
Publisher: 
Center for Louisiana Studies
Rights Usage: 
All Rights Reserved
Language: 
English
French
Meta Information
Duration: 
48:51
Cataloged Date: 
Wednesday, June 14, 2017
Digitized Date: 
Tuesday, May 3, 2016
Original Format: 
Audio--Reel--5"
Digital Format: 
WAV
Bit Depth: 
24 bit
Sampling Rate: 
96 kHz
Storage Location: 
Archives of Cajun and Creole Folklore - Cabinet 1 Shelf 2