Laura Stella Sitges

The Thélèsphore Thibodeaux house, St. Martin Parish, Louisiana

by Laura Stella Sitges

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

by Laura Stella Sitges

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)

by Laura Stella Sitges

(cont’d from “Thélèsphore Thibodeaux, a Black Creole family hero on post-Civil War Bayou Teche”) Driving … Read more

Thélèsphore Thibodeaux, a Black Creole family hero on post-Civil War Bayou Teche

by Laura Stella Sitges

When a Texas researcher contacted me in July of 2014 about an 1894 succession transcript … Read more

Thibodeaux/Azor Succession #2859, 1890s Breaux Bridge, La.

by Laura Stella Sitges

Marriage, Dec.24, 1893, Onezime E Thibodeaux and Elizabeth Locust

. Six years ago, in early July of 2014, I received a comment on one … Read more

Breaux Bridge (pg.5 of 5): Chênes Brûlée, a found-art piece

by Laura Stella Sitges

Breaux Bridge farm sculpture, floor tester 2

found art sculpture for the story “Breaux Bridge series” (pg.5 of 5): the search for my Cajun grandmother’s ancestral homestead, an 1800s sugarcane farm on Bayou Teche

Breaux Bridge (pg.4 of 5): Changes come to 20th century Cajun ways

by Laura Stella Sitges

. . . the church auctioned off the house for a dollar to anyone who would move it off the property, and they did; floated it down the bayou to the other side . . . what I pulled out from under leaf litter a foot thick, amidst a scattering of massive iron hooks, levers and free weights, was the arm of a 1910 farm scale, its wooden cabinet long rotted to dust, abandoned since my great great uncle died in 1942.