Leaving Cajun Country for Lake Charles: 1908
My grandmother grew up in Lake Charles, Louisiana, the last port town in southwest Louisiana … Read more
We’re back! – Digging for pennies and finding diamonds
JOY!… The site’s arduous resurrection has finally happened. Wasting no time, I’m gonna dive right … Read more
Coffee, a Kitten, and Poison Ivy Everywhere: a Thibodeaux Assemblage Sculpture
top – Burlap sack fragment “Café do Brasil” . . . 1930s newspaper fragment and … Read more
Moss in the Mattress, History on the Wall: a Thibodeaux Assemblage Sculpture
Left – chenille bedspread, green & white piece of patchwork quilt both folded between two … Read more
Renovation is now a Reconstruction for the Small Screen
… 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
Two Verandahs and an Ice Box: a Thibodeaux Assemblage Sculpture
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.
The Thibodeaux Assemblage Sculpture; Progress Through 3 Years of Upheaval
Last I wrote of the Thibodeaux sculpture, in the summer of 2015, I had just … Read more
The Thélèsphore Thibodeaux house, St. Martin Parish, Louisiana
For 35 years, I have been walking past this abandoned gem to get to my … Read more
Nov. 9, 2019 – Picking up the pieces after 4 years away from writing
Hello, blog – I don’t remember how you work, so that’s going to be part … Read more
The Thibodeaux sculpture so far (Sept.2014 – Aug.2015)
(cont’d from “Thélèsphore Thibodeaux, a Black Creole family hero on post-Civil War Bayou Teche”) Driving … Read more