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
260 years in French Louisiana
Tiny shops of fresh handmade things to big dept. stores, and lake views, breezes, and passing schooners every block… and saloons
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
Reconstructing a picture of a childhood from lost memories and mysterious secrecy: the ethnographic value of a 1907 Sears catalog
Oyster stew 10¢, a piano with teeth, peacocks screaming, a crane chasing children, Jean Lafitte, Haley’s comet, and the Hutchins/Reid clan. *whew*
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
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.
JOY!… The site’s arduous resurrection has finally happened. Wasting no time, I’m gonna dive right … Read more