Personal history; history of Lafayette; Presbyterian Church--religion and oral history; city hall and other buildings; railroad and travel; crops; sowing; coming of oil; highway and automobiles; paved road and cars;

00:00:15 - Introduction; Interview with Ms. Iona Bourg at the Cornerstone Retirement Community in Lafayette, LA;
00:00:40 - Iona Marie Bourg; She has never been married; She worked secretary, book keeping, and accounting jobs her whole life;
00:01:30 - She worked for the Caffery's in Franklin, LA; Sugarcane plantation in Columbia between Baldwin and Franklin;
00:02:35 - Her father was Gerson Paul Bourg (G.P. was his nickname) and her mother was Ellen Boudreaux; They lived in Lafourche parish; She was born in Baldwin in 1915 (she is 89 during this interview);

00:00:30 - Plantations; She went with her husband Sam to visit the plantation; Sam wanted to restore the plantation; During the 1930s before the war;
00:04:45 - Other sugar plantations were indebted to the banks; Foreclosures; The Burguieres still owned their plantation;
00:05:55 - When they would visit, Uncle Jules would have them over for dinner and they would visit; They would take a Greyhound bus to get there because they didn't have a car;

00:00:15 - Story about her grandma and her two sisters taking a train from Crowley to Texas; She had to watch the clock so they wouldn't miss the train; She was 16; Her grandfather was sick; He died in his seventies;
00:04:35 - Her grandfather was a soldier in the Civil War; They would ride horses to Texas and bring cows back to feed other soldiers; Her grandparents were buried in Church Point; One grandma was 100 when she died and the other was in her 80s; Her mother was 71 and father was 84 when they died;

Childhood; games; school; important people; trip to Canada;