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Interview with Allen Simon

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

01:45 - Rod Bernard's "Colinda;"
02:30 - La Kalinda dance;
03:45 - Shane's PhD dissertation;
05:30 - Allen was born January 29, 1937;
06:00 - Speaking French in the family, he says they totally lived in French at home in the 40s. English was forbidden;
09:00 - Speaking French in school and learning English;
11:00 - "Creole" meaning;
11:55 - French identity - Would refer to themselves as "French," not Cajun, Acadian, American, etc; "les Americans;"
14:00 - Bombing of Pearl Harbor;

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Interview with Curney Dronet and Robert Leblanc; Interview with Louise Landry and Dave Landry

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

Interview with Dronet and Leblanc (cont.):
00:30 - Contingency plans for Vermilion Parish in case of nuclear war;
00:50 - Fallout shelters;
02:30 - Nuclear drills for local officials
04:00 - Discussing various private fallout shelters built in Vermilion Parish;
07:20 - germ (biological) warfare;

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Interview with Robert LeBlanc and Curney Dronet

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

00:00 - French speakers calling non-French speakers "les Americains" during WWII;
05:30 - Next generation of French speakers - Talking about not teaching their children French in the 40s, 50s and 60s;
09:30 - Discussing the Cold War; Political Conflicts;
10:30 - Red scare in Acadiana;
14:15 - Ho Chi Minh;
15:45 - McCarthyism in Louisiana;
18:00 - Discussing impractical military equipment;
19:55 - Local perception of the Vietnam war;
23:30 - Vietnam war protesters on college campuses

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Interview with Curney Dronet and Robert Leblanc; Interview with Louise Landry and Dave Landry

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

00:00 - Being stationed in Scotland for training;
01:10 - Being debriefed on situation going on in France, they had to know the French language for this;
02:10 - Description of OSS teams and their jobs;
05:30 - Was assigned to the 4th armored division;
07:40 - Description of tasks - Provided security for Patton's convoys, guarded POWs, provided intelligence;
09:00 - Returning to U.S. for training and then was deployed to French Indochina - trained people over there for espionage work;
10:00 - End of the war; returning home;

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Interviews with Dalton and Evelyn Comeaux, Barbara Secardo, Curney Dronet

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

Interview with Dalton and Evelyn Comeaux (cont.):
00:00 - Using airplanes in agriculture - Dalton uses aircraft to plant rice seed;
00:55 - Other changes in agriculture in St. Landry Parish;
03:00 - Sharecropping;
06:30 - Crops grown - Sweet potatoes, sugarcane, rice, cotton;
08:55 - Cattle operations went down when soybean farming became popular in the 70s;
11:00 - Rotating crawfish and rice farming;
12:30 - Advances in insect control;
13:55 - Attending a Swiss livestock show;
15:15 - Importance of agriculture in South Louisiana;

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Interviews with Dalton and Evelyn Comeaux

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

Interview with Dalton Comeaux (cont.):
00:40 - Continued teaching in Africa - Made five short trips to train them for beef cattle production and dairy production;
02:00 - One of his students came back to the states, went to Texas A&M and got his Master's degree a Ph.D. in two years;
04:00 - Finished high school in 1939 and started at U.S.L.;
05:10 - Was the second sibling in his family to graduate from college;
06:00 - Joined the Army, went to Cheyenne, Wyoming for basic training

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Interviews with R.A. "Beedy" Herpin; Hazel Herpin; and Dalton Comeaux

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

Interview with Raymond Herpin:
00:40 - Real name - Raymond Andrew Herpin, discussing his nickname;
01:00 - background - Born September 1, 1918 in Crowley;
01:45 - Mother was from Beaumont, TX, he never learned to speak French;
02:20 - Education;
03:15 - Was in the Army when Pearl Harbor happened, was stationed at Barksdale, Discussing what made him join;
04:45 - Stationed in Shreveport, Albuquerque, Las Vegas, Salt Lake City. Was a welder, crew chief, flight chief. Discharged in 1945;

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Interviews with Huey "Cookie" Thierry and Ernest Jacobs

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

00:45 - Blues scene in Louisiana in his early days. Most of his blues artists came from Southwest LA and East TX;
03:30 - Lee Baker Jr. "Lonnie Brooks;"
05:30 - Major labels struggled with blues artists. Eddie says recordings were to "slick";
06:00 - Eddie's approach to recording Blues music;
07:20 - Started recording Blues artists before any other genre;
07:50 - James Freeman "Big Leg Mama" from around 1945. Lost masters;
09:00 - Other blues artists recorded - Bill Parker, Clarence Garlow;

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Interviews with Huey "Cookie" Thierry and Ernest Jacobs (cont.)

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

00:10 - Ernest talks about searching for and finding Cookie in L.A.;
04:30 - Cookie sings again, goes back home;
07:00 - Experiencing an earthquake;
09:00 - Returning to Louisiana (late 1992);
10:30 - Race relations in the 1950s and 1960s - white women weren't allowed to approach the bandstand;
13:00 - Rumors about Cookie, women would flirt with the band;
14:50 - Green Lantern Club;
16:00 - Women would hide in their station wagon after shows;
19:00 - Needed a state deputy to escort them into and out of Opelousas;

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Interviews with Huey "Cookie" Thierry and Ernest Jacobs

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

00:30 - Background - Born August 16, 1936
01:00 - Musicians in the family - Father played fiddle and accordion, mother played guitar. They'd play Creole Dances. Father was a construction worker;
01:35 - Both parents spoke Creole French, Huey never played French music professionally, but would play some songs around the house;
02:00 - Influences - Fats Domino, likes Country and Western music;
03:50 - Born between Welsh and Jennings;
04:30 - French Influence;
05:10 - Forming the Cupcakes;

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