Interview with Gladys Courville et al"

0:00 - Gladys Courville talks about moving back to Eunice after losing everything in their home in Texas, raising her family
2:00 - Gladys Courville talks about she and Dennis McGee earning money by ironing, farming, cutting hair, playing music, etc.
2:30 - Gladys Courville talks about her marriage to Dennis McGee, her 10 children
5:00 - Gladys Courville and Dennis McGee talk about living in Port Arthur, Texas
6:30 - Dennis McGee talks about working as a barber
7:30 - Gladys Courville talks about life as a housewife and a mother
9:00 - Dennis McGee talks about Mardi Gras, Lent, courir de Mardi Gras
11:00 - Dennis McGee talks about learning to play the violin
13:00 - Dennis McGee plays "La Chanson de Mardi Gras"
15:00 - Dennis McGee playing the violin

16:00 - Wade Frugé talks about his grandfather starting the Mardi Gras in Tasso, courir de Mardi Gras
20:00 - Wade Frugé plays "La Chanson de Mardi Gras"
23:00 - Wade Frugé talks about house dances, bal de maison
27:00 - Wade Frugé talks about manners, respect
27:40 - Wade Frugé talks about themes in Cajun music, la misère
29:50 - Wade Frugé talks about the difficulties of raising a family, poverty
31:30 - Wade Frugé talks about playing dances in Eunice
32:30 - Wade Frugé talks about violence in dance halls, his uncle's murder, les boulés, alcoholism
35:30 - Wade Frugé talks about "Grand Rond," fighting, moonshine
38:30 - Wade Frugé talks about courting
39:20 - Wade Frugé talks about farming, raising animals
40:50 - Wade Frugé talks about Dennis McGee and Amédé Ardoin playing music together, recording
42:00 - Wade Frugé talks about playing house dances
43:40 - Wade Frugé talks about Amédé Ardoin's death
46:30 - Wade Frugé talks about Douglas Bellard
46:26 - Wade Frugé plays "Les flammes d'enfer"
48:42 - Wade Frugé plays "Adieu Rosa"
49:20 - Wade Frugé talks about going to school and not being able to speak English, being punished for speaking French
51:30 - Wade Frugé talks about what it means to be a Cajun, the word "coonass"
53:00 - Wade Frugé talks about his land, the cost of land

55:45 - Evelyn Courville talks about running Mardi Gras, going to house dances
56:52 - Evelyn Courville and Wade Frugé talk about how they met and got married
57:45 - Wade Frugé talks about serving in World War II, being poor
58:30 - Wade Frugé's blacksmith shop
59:00 - bayou scenery
1:03:00 - blue heron
1:15:00 - fishing
1:18:00 -homes along the bayou
1:20:00 - house boat, fishing
1:29:00 - crop duster
1:30:00 - cypress trees in the swamp

1:37:20 - Alan Lomax talks about what Cajun country was like in the 1920s, the American frontier, the roles of women in Cajun culture
1:38:32 - Adolis "Dol" Roger Montoucet, Ruby Thibodeaux and Eva Arceneaux talk about how old they were when they got married, how they met their husbands, raising children
1:41:00 - Adolis "Dol" Roger Montoucet talks about farming, raising animals
1:42:00 - Adolis "Dol" Roger Montoucet talks about boucheries