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260 years in French Louisiana

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    • Goodbye, K-man (pg.1 of 4): Road trip to Nova Scotia
    • Goodbye, K-man (pg.2 of 4): Chasing the Fundy tide and other forces of nature
    • Goodbye, K-man (pg.3 of 4): campsite finder extraordinaire
    • Goodbye, K-man … (pg.4 of 4)
  • French Cajun Louisiana
    • Breaux Bridge
      • Breaux Bridge (pg.1 of 5): A 19th cent. Cajun sugarcane farm
      • Breaux Bridge (pg.2 of 5): My grandmother’s Cajun ancestors
      • Breaux Bridge (pg.3 of 5): Remnants of a 19th century Cajun homestead on Bayou Teche
      • Breaux Bridge (pg.4 of 5): Changes come to 20th century Cajun ways
      • Breaux Bridge (pg.5 of 5): Chênes Brûlée, a found-art piece
    • Thibodeaux
      • Coffee, a Kitten, and Poison Ivy Everywhere: a Thibodeaux Assemblage Sculpture
      • Moss in the Mattress, History on the Wall: a Thibodeaux Assemblage Sculpture
      • Two Verandahs and an Ice Box: a Thibodeaux Assemblage Sculpture
      • Thibodeaux/Azor Succession #2859, 1890s Breaux Bridge, La.
      • Thélèsphore Thibodeaux, a Black Creole family hero on post-Civil War Bayou Teche
      • The Thélèsphore Thibodeaux house, St. Martin Parish, Louisiana
      • The Thibodeaux sculpture so far (Sept.2014 – Aug.2015)
      • The Thibodeaux Assemblage Sculpture; Progress Through 3 Years of Upheaval
    • Charenton
    • Lake Charles
      • We’re back! – Digging for pennies and finding diamonds
      • Leaving Cajun Country for Lake Charles: 1907-08
  • New Orleans
    • “Tisolay’s Favorite Things” – my last drawing for my grandmother
    • Broken Violin at Sea
    • Thanks, Dad, from the Tuxedo Cats
  • Spain
    • Spanish Balearic Islands “category”
      • Henrietta, Rosello’s tomb and Aunt Nans
      • Mama Sitges
      • Papa Sitges’ Meerschaum Pipe
    • Canary Islands

The Route Home, 1907 – part 2 of 2

by Laura Stella Sitges

(cont’d from part 1) What if the drayman, with his wagon backed up to the … Read more

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The Route Home, 1907 – part 1 of 2

by Laura Stella Sitges

It’s been months since I discovered the McNeese Collection of vintage photos of Lake Charles, … Read more

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The Mockingbird Record

by Laura Stella Sitges

I’ve been procrastinating for years writing this story down, mainly because I’ve written it already, … Read more

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Leaving Cajun Country for Lake Charles: 1907-08

by Laura Stella Sitges

My grandmother grew up in Lake Charles, Louisiana, the last port town in southwest Louisiana … Read more

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We’re back! – Digging for pennies and finding diamonds

by Laura Stella Sitges

  JOY!… The site’s arduous resurrection has finally happened. Wasting no time, I’m gonna dive right … Read more

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Coffee, a Kitten, and Poison Ivy Everywhere: a Thibodeaux Assemblage Sculpture

by Laura Stella Sitges

top – Burlap sack fragment “Café do Brasil” . . . 1930s newspaper fragment and … Read more

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Moss in the Mattress, History on the Wall: a Thibodeaux Assemblage Sculpture

by Laura Stella Sitges

Left – chenille bedspread, green & white piece of patchwork quilt both folded between two … Read more

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Renovation is now a Reconstruction for the Small Screen

by Laura Stella Sitges

… which ranks about a 9.7 on my “I’m-too-old-for-this-techy-mess”-o-meter. DIYFASP is phasing out its interaction … Read more

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Two Verandahs and an Ice Box: a Thibodeaux Assemblage Sculpture

by Laura Stella Sitges

verandah column, ice box door, Eastlake Victorian millwork features – one of many sections of a sculpture using artifacts excavated from the post-Civil War homestead of a white Acadian sugar cane farmer and the ex-slave woman he raised 8 children with during and after the Civil War, then married on his deathbed in 1893.

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The Thibodeaux Assemblage Sculpture; Progress Through 3 Years of Upheaval

by Laura Stella Sitges

Last I wrote of the Thibodeaux sculpture, in the summer of 2015, I had just … Read more

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About me:
Welcome! My name is Laura Stella Sitges, and I am a native New Orleanian, the last of an old New Orleans family that has been in French and Spanish Louisiana since 1761, a family as interesting as the city that made us. I am a historian, artist, anthropologist, renovator of historic architecture, and writer, as well as a pianist and a chef, all of which is rooted in the unique culture of New Orleans.

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About the blog:
I have long been writing about my magical grandmother, who could flirt with a stick of furniture. But Hurricane Katrina made me realize that, as an only child of an only child of an only child, with no children of my own, the remarkable collection of old family documents, photos, heirlooms and stories that has come down to me will get washed away like so many New Orleans families' memories did, if I don't document them.
So as I sense myself slowing down, I pass them along to you... with affection.

Yes, you're in the right place. Little has changed beside the name, which is no longer applicable. DIYFASP is phasing out its interaction with the public's found-art projects to focus solely on the family's story and the artistic expression that aids in the telling of it.

Table of Contents

  • _____ Category . . . Breaux Bridge
    • Thibodeaux/Azor Succession #2859, 1890s
    • The Thelesphore Thibodeaux house
    • The Thibodeaux Sculpture So Far
    • Breaux Bridge, pg.1 of 5
    • Breaux Bridge, pg.2 of 5
    • Breaux Bridge, pg.3 of 5
    • Breaux Bridge, pg.4 of 5
    • Breaux Bridge, pg.5 of 5
  • _____ Category . . . Nova Scotia
    • Goodbye, K-Man, pg.1
    • Goodbye, K-Man, pg.2
    • Goodbye, K-Man, pg.3
    • Goodbye, K-Man, pg.4
  • _____ Category . . . New Orleans
    • Tisolay’s Favorite Things
    • Irv’s Archaeological “P”
    • Broken Violin at Sea
  • _____ Category . . . Haiti/Dom.Rep.
    • Daddy’s Bell
  • _____ Category . . . Spain
    • Henrietta, Rosello’s Tomb and Aunt Nans
  • About
  • Lake Charles
  • Spain
  • Nova Scotia
  • _____ Category . . . Breaux Bridge
    • Thibodeaux/Azor Succession #2859, 1890s
    • The Thelesphore Thibodeaux house
    • The Thibodeaux Sculpture So Far
    • Breaux Bridge, pg.1 of 5
    • Breaux Bridge, pg.2 of 5
    • Breaux Bridge, pg.3 of 5
    • Breaux Bridge, pg.4 of 5
    • Breaux Bridge, pg.5 of 5
  • _____ Category . . . Nova Scotia
    • Goodbye, K-Man, pg.1
    • Goodbye, K-Man, pg.2
    • Goodbye, K-Man, pg.3
    • Goodbye, K-Man, pg.4
  • _____ Category . . . New Orleans
    • Tisolay’s Favorite Things
    • Irv’s Archaeological “P”
    • Broken Violin at Sea
  • _____ Category . . . Haiti/Dom.Rep.
    • Daddy’s Bell
  • _____ Category . . . Spain
    • Henrietta, Rosello’s Tomb and Aunt Nans
  • About
  • Lake Charles
  • Spain
  • Nova Scotia

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