Interviews with Dalton and Evelyn Comeaux, Barbara Secardo, Curney Dronet

Accession No.: 
BE1-056

Interview with Dalton and Evelyn Comeaux (cont.):
00:00 - Using airplanes in agriculture - Dalton uses aircraft to plant rice seed;
00:55 - Other changes in agriculture in St. Landry Parish;
03:00 - Sharecropping;
06:30 - Crops grown - Sweet potatoes, sugarcane, rice, cotton;
08:55 - Cattle operations went down when soybean farming became popular in the 70s;
11:00 - Rotating crawfish and rice farming;
12:30 - Advances in insect control;
13:55 - Attending a Swiss livestock show;
15:15 - Importance of agriculture in South Louisiana;

Interview with Barbara Secardo:
18:30 - Her father helped start Cotton Bros. Bakery;
19:00 - Story about Echo and Poland, LA during WWII- When Hitler took over the nation of Poland, locals saw headlines and thought they were referring to their small town;
23:10 - Italian POWs;
24:00 - Italian American citizens couldn't own weapons during WWII;
28:00 - Friend's father was at Pearl Harbor;
28:30 - Boarding soldiers and wives at their home;
30:00 - Sheriff Didier;
32:30 - Music in the family

35:35 - Interview with Curney Dronet - September 12, 1997
36:00 - Americanization of Cajuns after WWII;
37:50 - Discussing the oil boom in South LA;
43:00 - Glen Conrad's classification of Acadians as Creoles
44:20 - Dronet's heritage - French and Spanish;

Media Type: 
Audio
Collection: 
Shane K. Bernard
Subject: 
French Language; Agriculture; Education; WWII, World War II
Creator: 
Shane Bernard
Recording date: 
Thursday, July 17, 1997
Coverage Spatial: 
Opelousas, LA
Publisher: 
Shane K. Bernard
Rights Usage: 
All Rights Reserved
Language: 
English
Meta Information
Duration: 
46:04
Cataloged Date: 
Monday, February 5, 2024
Digitized Date: 
Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Original Format: 
Audio--Cassette--60
Digital Format: 
Audio
Bit Depth: 
16 bit
Sampling Rate: 
44.1k
Storage Location: 
Archives of Cajun and Creole Folklore