First Week: The Champagnes’ First Sunday, pt2
… then home by way of Broad St, see the mansions and families gathering for Sunday dinner
First Week: The Champagnes’ First Sunday, pt1
A streetcar to Mass, then breakfast and a walk through town and down to the wharf.
First week: Tiwazzo and the girls go shopping
Tiny shops of fresh handmade things to big dept. stores, and lake views, breezes, and passing schooners every block… and saloons
First week: J Euclide’s walk to his new job
Optimism of a new job, curiosity about town life, exposure to different cultures, and the responsibility for taking your family away from the security of a family farm
1907-1910 in 511 Moss St, the forgotten period
Reconstructing a picture of a childhood from lost memories and mysterious secrecy: the ethnographic value of a 1907 Sears catalog
The Route Home, 1907 – part 2 of 2
Oyster stew 10¢, a piano with teeth, peacocks screaming, a crane chasing children, Jean Lafitte, Haley’s comet, and the Hutchins/Reid clan. *whew*
The Route Home, 1907 – part 1 of 2
Danish Foehr Island seafarers, orphans finding their way, a Tennessee lawyer who owned the town’s first bath tub(and let neighbors use it), a dancing bear…and Judge D.J. Reid
The Mockingbird Record
My grandmother had a magical way with birds, and one year, she decided to make a recording of a mockingbird that sang along with her piano every morning. Quite a story came of that.
Leaving Cajun Country for Lake Charles: 1907-08
Tisolay never wanted to talk about Lake Charles or her childhood. She was punished for speaking French in school. But Lake Charles gave her her music, which saved her, that and her big sister Carmen. And thus, the search for puzzle pieces begins.
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