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Interview with Mr. and Mrs. Angello Angelette

Thu, 01/05/2017 - 5:02pm -- Anonymous (not verified)

00:00:05 - Interview with Mr. and Mrs. Angello Angelette at their home in Golden Meadow on June 14th, 1973;
00:00:20 - Her grandmother came from Bayou Teche and traveled by boat to Cheniere Caminada; His great great grandfather came with Lafitte; Her grandfather on her mother's side also came with Lafitte; He washed the dishes in the boat when he was 12;
00:01:45 - Platforms at Basa Basa, Manila Village, Bayou Collas, Bayou Beullot (?), Bayou Rigo (?); Before 1893, there was an oyster shucking house; One room house made of plank and the roof was sheeting;

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Interview with Mr. and Mrs. Angelette Felecin Duet

Thu, 01/05/2017 - 5:02pm -- Anonymous (not verified)

(Not sure who he is interviewing);
00:00:05 - Duck hunting; Story about the first time he went duck hunting;
00:03:20 - Islands and ridges getting smaller in the marsh; Storm in 1906; They moved there in 1915; New Orleans is sinking;
00:07:20 - The ridge at Leeville was 100 ft. wide, now it is gone; People moved from Cheniere Caminada and Leeville to Golden Meadow; They moved their house from Leeville;
00:09:45 - Old houses in Leeville; Kitchen in the back, oven outside; Made with moss and dirt––bousiller; She talks about how she made her wedding cake;

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Interview with Mr. & Mrs. Chouest

Thu, 01/05/2017 - 5:02pm -- Anonymous (not verified)

00:00:10 - Interview with Milton (?) Chouest; Wednesday, June 13th at their home in Golden Meadow;
00:00:30 - In 1917 she helped start the first school in the area; At 17 years old, Mrs. Chouest taught 1st-3rd grade (125 children); Mr. Scott was the principal; He taught 4th-7th grade all together (35 children); Half of the students came in the morning and half in the afternoon;
00:01:33 - She didn't speak local French; She took some classes in college; Her students didn't speak English; Some were older than her;

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Interview with Daize Cheramie

Thu, 01/05/2017 - 5:02pm -- Anonymous (not verified)

00:00:30 - Intro: Interview with Daize Cheramie at his home in Cut Off, LA on June 12th; Mr. Cheramie is 84; His daughter is there translating;
00:00:52 - Thomas Weisman owned a small piece of land on Little Temple; Bo Berrett;
00:03:20 - Chinese workers; There were 15 houses at Little Temple on one side; 10 houses on the other; Little Temple is bound on one side by Bayou Rigolet and the other side is Bayou Pierrot;
00:05:50 - They own one part of Little Temple; There are two churches: one for Little Temple and one for Clark's Chenier;

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Interview with Levy Charpentier II

Thu, 01/05/2017 - 5:02pm -- Anonymous (not verified)

Continued interview with Levy Charpentier; Dean Charpentier, student at Nicholls, serves as translator;
00:00:10 - Bootleg whiskey;
00:02:10 - Talks about how to build a traînasse; Small dams; Golden Meadow; Traînasse de Bayou Rainbow; Yankee Canal;
00:06:15 - Cote Blanche; They didn't finish one of the canals because they ran out of money (they can't remember the name of the canal); It's closed now;
00:08:30 - Carmondale (?); He knew the Dufrene family that lived there; Near Lake Salvador, Little Lake;

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Dewey Balfa - In-school Cajun music presentation with Rodney Balfa and Freeman Fontenot

Thu, 01/05/2017 - 5:02pm -- Anonymous (not verified)

00:00 - Artists in Schools program origins;
01:30 - Newport Folk Festival;
04:00 - Dewey explains how the grant program works;
08:00 - Dewey say's the Acadians came down to Louisiana with fiddles and percussion instruments;
09:49 - Chère Tout Tout;
12:15 - Explaining Cajun seconding on fiddle; Band Introductions;
16:25 - Example of Cajun seconding on fiddle;
18:30 - Dewey talks about the origins of the diatonic accordion;
19:58 - Demonstrating a waltz on the accordion;
22:20 - Eunice two step on Accordion;

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