Breaux Bridge (pg.5 of 5): Chênes Brûlée, a found-art piece
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
Breaux Bridge (pg.4 of 5): Changes come to 20th century Cajun ways
. . . 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.
Breaux Bridge (pg.3 of 5): Remnants of a 19th century Cajun homestead on Bayou Teche
Breaux Bridge (pg.3 of 5): Discovering my grandmother’s Cajun ancestors and their 19th cent. sugarcane farm on Bayou Teche
Breaux Bridge (pg.2 of 5): My grandmother’s Cajun ancestors
Breaux Bridge series (pg.2 of 5): Discovering my grandmother’s Cajun ancestors and their 19th cent. sugarcane farm on Bayou Teche
Breaux Bridge (pg.1 of 5): A 19th cent. Cajun sugarcane farm
Breaux Bridge (pg.1 of 5): Discovering my grandmother’s Cajun ancestors on a 19th cent. sugarcane farm on Bayou Teche