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Our trip to "Acadiana", Louisiana in March of 1998.
Thank you from Jennie Byram, Frances Levasseur, and Marjie Lachance

***See attached letter (LE3-040)***

Acadian Village in Lafayette, Louisiana;
Speaking French just like in Acadia;
Different merchandise in the gift shop. Talking about the weather in March;
Visiting the houses in the village. Kristi Guillory singing Bayou Pon Pon;
La maison Bernard--le plus ancien 1800 avec l'addition en 1840;
Religious items;
Musical items: records, instruments;
Le garçonier (boys slept in the attick, girls slept in the house);
Thibodeaux House--1820;
Different technologies in the house, kitchen?;
Goats, Cistern, Chickens, Geese, La Chapelle de Nouvel Espoir;
LeBlanc House--1821;
Speaking with A.J. LeBlanc. Shared family names between Cajuns and Acadians;
A.J.'s trip to Canada last August. Seeing the resemblance and hearing the same stories;
Saving Louisiana's coast. Getting 10 Acadians to come and telling them they get half of all the land they recycle. Louisiana would be in South America;
Fighting to keep the French language;
Making Cajuns believe speaking French made them basse-classe. Getting paid twice as much for being bilingual;
Dudley LeBlanc--Hadacol. 1930-1935, people didn't take vitamins. 18% alcohol in Hadacol. Selling his medicine all over the country except in the North (same formula as Geritol);
Using Hadacol box tops to go see shows with Minnie Pearl, Dorothy Lamour, Hanks Williams Sr., all the big actors;
Groucho Marx's program;
Dudley's Sunday afternoon radio show/newscast. People had stopped going to mass to listen to Dudley. Bishop asked him to change it to 12:30 pm;
People talking about how well Hadacol worked. Lady had rheumatism, she hurt everywhere. 3 bottles a week was helping. Now taking 5+ a week. She no longer worries about who she sleeps with;
Dudley visiting the pope in Rome, Italy. People knew Cousin Dud, but not the guy with the little hat (the pope);
Visiting the U.S. President. Traveling with girls;
Cajun Acadian Flag;
La maison St. Jean--Juillet 1881 le premier congrès. La rue de St. Jean;
Les Billeaud;
Castille--espagnol;
St. John House donated by Mr. & Mrs. Joe Joseph;
Guineas and house signs;
Geese swimming;
Different houses;
Farming tools and Blacksmith shop;
Inside the St. John House;
Blacksmith shop, buggies, wagons, plows;
Pavilion and houses;
Billeaud House--Weaving looms, spinning wheels, brown and white cotton;
La Chapelle de Nouvel Espoir. Pews all replicas of the first pew;
All doors half-doors;
Castille House circa 1860 and cistern behind;
House where the dentist was;
Dr. William Lesley of Illinois (1848-1928) practicing in 1875 Carencro for 53 years;
First doctor to practice in Lafayette parish;
Pepper harvester;
House with arts and crafts;
Le magasin--country store;
Various pictures to Doug Kershaw's 'Cajun Baby' and Dixieland Jazz;
Mississippi Valley Museum;
History of Acadian Village narrated in French: Le Magasin Général, La Maison Aurélie Bernard, La Maison Thibodeaux, La Maison LeBlanc, La Maison Saint-Jean (schoolhouse), La Forge, La Maison Billeaud, La Chapelle du Nouvel Espoir, La Maison Castille, Le Cabinet du Medecin, La Maison du Docteur Salles, T' Frère's House Bed and Breakfast, Alida's Bed and Breakfast;
Jean Lafitte Cultural Center and Vermilionville in Lafayette. La Maison Acadienne, different houses around Vermilionville, Bayou Vermilion River;
Evangeline Oak in St. Martinville;
Thanking A.J. for his hopitality;