Episode 11: The Treasures of Ophelia Lefort

00:54 - Zach talks about stories of pirates and treasure that Ophelia Lefort's father would tell her when she was younger;
02:00 - Zach talks about the land that Ophelia lives on and how it's filled with treasures of all kinds;
02:38 - Zach and Ophelia talk about where she was born and raised - Larose, Bayou Lafourche;
03:00 - She talks about her parents and how they never spoke English - she says they felt inferior because they couldn't speak English;
03:46 - She first came in contact with English in school (she discusses being punished for speaking French in school);
04:49 - She discusses only being able to speak French, she cannot read or write it;
05:41 - Zach talks about Ophelia with her friends and family. Discusses her stockpile of cypress knees that she makes into art;
06:12 - Ophelia and her friend, Millie Gisclair, discuss how to prepare the knees to be painted;
07:37 - Zach talks about the Chêne à Caouenne (Caouenne's Oak) in Golden Meadow, LA - Gathering place for people to tell stories;
09:00 - Woman shows a painting of a group of people sitting around the Chêne à Caouenne by Delores Granger;
09:38 - Group exchanges stories about their weddings and marriages;
11:13 - Ophelia talks about always wanting to better herself and to do better than her siblings (that included being bilingual);
12:18 - She talks about moving to Lafayette in 1946 and 1947 and loving it because more people spoke French there;
14:21 - Zach talks about when Ophelia was a child. She, with other, would run down to the dock where the grocery boat was and the sailors would throw treats over to the kids. Now those kids are grown up but they still enjoy taking trips down that bayou;
14:59 - Ebdon Barrios talks the area being a melting pot of people and culture. He says that it is due to Jean Lafitte;
15:59 - Former Sheriff Duffy Breaux explains that even though there are a lot of different people in the area French remained the main language because of a lack of education within the immigrant communities;
16:17 - Ebdon explains that when he started school he did not know a word of English and that he was forced to learn the language;
17:47 - Zach and Ophelia talk about her father telling stories and how the gift was passed down to her;
18:00 - She tells a story that her father told her about Jean Lafitte;
19:18 - Ophelia's father would sing to her - she sings a part of a couple of the songs;
20:01 - Ophelia standing next to the Jean Lafitte Oak. She talks about treasure that is supposed to be buried under the tree;
20:54 - She starts about painting and how peaceful it can be;
21:47 - Woman starts singing an old French song;
22:30 - Zach talks about how the tree itself is a treasure no matter what or who is buried under it;