Center for Louisiana Studies Archival Catalog

The Balfa Brothers:

-Wedding Dance
-Wedding March

(3:27) - Jolie Blonde (Ma Blonde est Partie/La Fille de la Veuve)
-La porte d'en arrière

(10:34) - Tous les soirs
-Step It Fast

(18:48) - La valse du chemin croche (Le Cher 'Tit Chemin T'as Pris)
-Acadian Two Step
-Jeffrey who's 3 years old requested 'Grand Mamou'

(25:39) - La fille de la campagne
-Les traces de mon boghei

***Only estimate of year was included in original notes, no specific month or day***

Ben Guiné (Wilson Mitchell):

-Haler le char (continued)
-Chapelet a sauvé sa vie
-Origin of his nickname
-9 Baseball players: Batiste, Rodney, et Adlia Clément, Ervin Babin, Noeud?
-Cormier, Poteau Clément, Vieux Tchoucou. Polin LeBlanc? Derouselle
-Baseball practice. Ben et le professeur
-$20 for a pair of shoes

(5:18) - St. Martin, Iberia, Jeanerette
-Moonshine, but they didn't drink because they knew their parents would whip them
-Homerun/last man down. Ben never struck out and was never worried to bat
-All players dead now

(8:37) - Baseball Club: Régis Sting gambling and betting he'll win a game. Each bet $40 ($80 total for winner) (anecdote)
-$50 contre $20
-Ben staying on base, not running. 3 had already made it home
-Early days in Parks

(19:32) - Ben's padna à l'école? Ben connait pas lire
-First black man to ride in car (Model-T) over here
-Cost him $200 from Mr. Elie Broussard from Breaux Bridge
-Ben and friend went to Lafayette. $350 for brand new car over there
-Not making a lot of money?

(27:13) - Mr. Lasseigne's car lot is worse. Went about 6:30 (pm?)
-Saint John, buying a house with wife and making an honest life
-Trouver un fatchin

(31:00) - Vieux homme qui piochait. Bon Dieu visite 'Si Bon Dieu Veut'--why dogs do not talk and only bark (etiological tale)

(37:53) - Moi, (v)oulai mouri, "Caesar pas là" (conte)

(41:52) - Le millionnaire/homme riche et Charlotte (domestique) à la porte du paradis (conte religeux)
-Slavery. Buried Charlotte as she was when she died
-Went to purgatory and ran quickly to heaven
-Millionaire had a big funeral when he died
-Charlotte was dressed so nicely, the millionaire didn't recognize her
-Millionaire wasn't allowed to run to heaven
-Devil wanted millionaire to dance. Devil didn't think millionaire could dance
-Millionaire hadn't eaten supper yet. Ate cat. Went to hell

Varise Conner (Violin), Michael Doucet (Violin), Lionel LeLeux (Background), Unknown Rhythm Guitar Player

-Valse sans titre de Walter Aguillard in D
-Aguillards from Eunice

(4:04) - Fi Fi Foncho
-Step it Fast (T'en a eu, t'en auras plus)

(7:25) - Step it Fast (fragment)
-Lafayette Playboys Waltz/Eunice Waltz/Crowley Waltz/Mon Vieux Home/Scott Waltz in A

(10:02) - Untitled Waltz in G
-Swing (Carroll County Blues?) (Lionel seconding?)

(14:19) - Untitled Blues
-Memphis Blues

(18:06) - Drunkard's Waltz
-Drunkard's Waltz (reprise with Lionel's 'rub-a-dub-dub' style)
-Jack Daniels to freshen Varise's memory

(22:09) - Untitled Two Step
-Evangeline Waltz (Lionel playing lead)

La leçon française
-French oral exercises

***Unknown recording date and place***

Canray Fontenot:

First interests in music:
-Son seul oncle (frère à sa mère) il avait jouait le violon
-Douglas Bellard était premier cousins avec sa mère. La tante à Douglas
-Cigar box violins. Making each one a violin. String from screendoor wire
-Wasn't loud, but made sound. The other guy went to school and became a teacher
-Canray didn't go to school. Had to be good too in school to go through a grade in two years
-Father died and he had to go to work to help support his family. The other guy went to Texas
-15 years since he's seen him. He told Canray he couldn't carry a tune
-First violin. Uncle bought it for him if Canray would go help him work in the field
-Canray was about 11 years old. Canray and that other guy started when they were 9 years old
-Fiddle head resembled a guitar head
-First time tuning violin. Going to see Douglas to see how to tune it. Breaking strings
-Needing the desire to learn music

(5:00) - Accordions
-Mr. Adam as well-known as Dennis McGee
-Canray can play a song, but he's not interested enough to learn
-Mother played accordion, but never played dances
-$16 for the last accordion father bought in Rayne. That was expensive back then
-Used to buy accordions for $13
-Canray's brother-in-law brought Canray's father to Rayne in a Model-T. Father had $20
-Passing the hat
-Playing accordion and picking up a little extra money
-Father never sang, sometimes had a triangle/fiddle player accompany him
-Alphonse LaFleur a good second fiddler (white)
-Whites played for blacks, and vice versa
-Canray playing with his daddy on table and chairs
-Wedding dance for white people
-Bois-sec started playing before his father died in 1938
-Canray starting to play fiddle after his uncle died

(10:00) - Music changes in the 1930s
-Everyone wanted hillbilly music, George Lennon, string bands
-Playing with Bois-sec Ardoin for 40-something years. Got together in the 1940s
-Stopped played music for 8 years and going back to play around Lake Charles for 3 years with Wilfred Latour and going back to Bois-sec
-Playing with Amédé Ardoin---Pineville & Death. He could sing and play well
-Black people's music sounded different than white people's
-Amédé (and Canray's uncle) would quit working to go play. Canray would usually finish his work
-Seeing him in Crowley. Hurting behind his neck. Sent to Pineville because he lost his mind

(15:06) - Amédé had an older brother living in Elton (Thomas)
-Amédé didn't recognize him. Thomas tried to play accordion, but couldn't
-Amédé couldn't remember anything. People hated him
-He played a dance in Eunice and wiped his face with a white lady's handkerchief
-They beat him because the white lady did what she did
-Amédé played in Basile at a dancehall. Guitars were rare, but one was broken
-Amédé was a jokester. Amédé wrote everything he played
-If an accordion played could play about 5 songs, that was a big thing
-Dance at Canray's grandfather's big house
-Amédé went play a dance for white people, Canray's daddy played one for black people
-Usually, black's lasted all night. Canray's grandmother cooked a gumbo
-Amédé came play the dance. Back then, people didn't drink in the house
-White mule. Selling gumbo 10 cents a bowl
-Amédé came take Canray's father's place playing accordion
-Amédé took over the bass side from his father and then the melody side. Dancers never stopped
-Amédé jouait simple. Played sitting down in that time

(21:23) - Amédé played accordion only
-Iry LeJeune redid all of Amédé's songs
-How Amédé learned to play music. Joe Falcon
-Amédé would take two step and turn them into waltzes, and vice versa
-Pop's superstitions about recording. Shouldn't hear dead people
-Adam 'Kahzey' Fontenot, son père
-Playing music until sunrise. Father got there around 12:30 AM and lady who brought two cups of coffee

(26:29) - None of Canray 6 kids can play anything
-Canray's cousin from Lafayette played flute. Dinner in Basile at his uncle's
-Mother couldn't understand how he could become a musician since neither parent can sing (father sings for Mardi Gras)
-Easy to know when kids will be musicians. Almost all of his kids became musicians
-Played with Isaac Hayes. Can play organ
-Warren Ceasar. Horse kicked and he never regained his health
-Stopped playing with big bands because he couldn't eat just anything (bologna, etc.)

(29:13) - Traveling with Bois-sec. Started in 1966 for festivals
-Only Bois-sec and Canray went to the Folklife Festival in Newport, Rhode Island
-Record with Spotwood in Washington D.C. on the way back
-People loved their music
-Guy in Jennings who picked up trash for the city found a fiddle and brought it to Canray in Oberlin. Wasn't a good fiddle
-Stopping for 8 years because he wanted a break from it. Canray gets bored with things
-Playing with Clifton Chenier in Elton around 1969. Big election
-Canray would play one Saturday, Clifton would play the next just accordion and scrubboard (brother played)
-Not many blacks who can play fiddle like Canray
-Uncle had a sitter who only played blues. Lives in Texas now, never liked to hire himself out?

(35:10) - Bois-sec Ardoin
-Son frère est meilleur joueur d'accordéon que Bois-sec, mais il a pas l'envie
-Il garde pas un accordéon. Han?
-The Carriere family from Lawtell--Bébé Carriere (violon) et Dolan (son père)
-Carrière joue le violon drôle. Comme Canray chante drôle
-Ça me fait du mal, bassette
-Danser avec moi/La Valse à Tante Nana?

(39:51) - La Valse de 'Tit Maurice
-Mon Cher Bébé Créole (Reprise in different key: La Valse de Samedi Soir)

Canray Fontenot:

-Chansons à Amédé (Lacassine Special, Two Step à Mama);
-J'ai Fait Une Grosse Erreur;
-Untitled Waltz (Part sounds like Rainbow Waltz);
-Fragment d'un two-step pris d'une disque 45 rpm (Les Belles Filles Veulent Plus Me Voir à Joe Falcon);

-Drunkard's Waltz (5:14);
-Reve de soulard;
-Quoi faire-à defunct Amédé. Alphonse sonnait la basse tringue;

-Blues fragment (11:30);
-Iry made Bosco Blues/World in a Jug himself;
-Rag/Polka fragment;

-Full-sized violins sound better acoustically, but 3/4-sized is more comfortable/easier for Canray to play (15:00);
-Bois-sec and Canray playing dances;
-Early tune: Le vieux Bob Wills mort dans un old-folks home. Sad with all the money he had;
-Howling Wolf Blues. Clifton redid it and called it 'Calinda';

-Fi Fi Foncho (21:31);
-Someone killed him. He retired and keeps the bottle. He says he'll die at the end of the table and he quit eating;
-Bois-sec and Canray playing at the Avalon Club on Friday nights and on Queen's Lounge? on Tuesday nights;

Canray Fontenot:

-Fragment of Two-Step à Amédé. Plaque 78 tour pour les Hébert de Jeanerette;
-Someone died in a wreck. Surprised Canray. The eve of July 4th. Horses killed 5 people?;
-Harmonica (tuned to B?) with fiddle:
-Untitled Blues;

-Lake Charles Two Step/Chameau One Step and goes into 'Jongle à Moi' at the end (4:06);
-When Canray first started playing, 3 different ways to play on harmonica. Basses on the third time;
-La Robe Barrée/Madame Etienne?;

-Zydeco à Doopsie (8:05);
-Untitled Blues;
-Would sound better with a Harmonica tuned to C;
-Je Peux Pas T'oublier;

-Untitled Two Step à son Père (same as on AN1.105) (12:17);
-Malinda?;
-Running into Queen Ida's uncle;
-Working songs. Parents both sang. Both of Canray's grandfathers would sing drinking songs when they'd come for Christmas or New Years;

-La table ronde (15:56);
-Grandfathers drinking and singing;
-Canray played in Lake Charles last year and a lady came up to him and told him she didn't know he knew those songs;
-Trinquez, trinquez les verres à la main. Explaining when others would join leader. Canray grew up with late nights hearing those songs. Giving money to Canray to eat for him to get a chicken and make a gumbo;

-Only Canray and his sister (she was spoiled) (20:42);
-Wood stove;
-Been working ever since he was strong enough to work;
-Beau-père à Bois-sec (Canray est parent avec la femme à Bois-sec);
-Welfare nowadays when a father dies. They didn't have that back then. $8/month was the first pay Canray can remember. Fontenots trying to pay debt after father died;

-Canray's used to 300-something pounds of cotton (24:34);
-One of Canray's uncles worked in rice fields. Canray's wife would go help him;
-Bois-sec's 1st cousin from Kinder, small lady. Picked more than 400 lbs of cotton;
-Nonc Howell?;
-People used to work. You had to make it or you weren't going to make it at all;
-Bonjour, Bonne année. Sung for New Years;

Lee Stelly, Irene Stelly, Jody Ancelet, Elmo Ancelet, Maude Ancelet,
Children's game - passing shoes, Pease-porridge, Rhymes, Jump rope games, Clapping games
History of Ossun - Martin Weber, Lee and Irene Stelly, Jody, Elmo and Maude Ancelet

Canray Fontenot, Bois Sec Ardoin

-Les Barres de la prison;
-Tune (Reel/Contredanse?) à Bee Fontenot (2:10);

***Only estimate of year were included in original notes, no specific month or day. No information of coverage spatial***

Bud Fentroy, Mary Fentroy:

Bud Fentroy, Parks, LA (English):

-Bouki and Lapin raising sweet potatoes/corn (crop division). Lapin always fooled Bouki (fox);
-Bouki and Lapin raising crops with bucket of butter for lunch. Christening babies 'Lick the Top' then 'Halfway Gone' and 'Lick the Bottom'. Playing Godfather/object of Battler (Brier Patch). Lapin fooled Bouki to throw him in the bushes;

-Hearing these stories and others from his mother & grandmother (5:52);
The Little Boy and the Old Lady ("Look down in the sack") CT 327c.
-Lil Boy who ran away from home (back in the times of cannibalism). 3 bigger brothers told him he couldn't follow them. Found shovel to give to the little brother, then found some marbles, then an old house to sleep in where an old lady lived. Tied heads of the bigger boys to know who they were. She had 3 daughters and put rags around their heads. Old lady came around 2 AM and chopped her own daughters heads off. Called their names Marion, Suzanne, and Ouzane in the morning and told them she had fresh meat. They never came/woke up. Boys had left and she ran after them in her boots. The boys climbed the big tree with the lady after them. The older brothers fell in the sack. She climbed the tree going after the little boy and got stuck. The little boy jumped, let out his brothers and caught the lady in the sack and tied her up there;

Jesse James stories from his dad (11:39);
-Jesse James and his brother Frank James were outlaws and took from the rich to give to the poor. He liked to fight. He wanted revenge for the people who killed his mother. Robbed banks and trains and the rich, but never the poor;
-Jesse was the mean one, Frank always tried to quiet him down. They were working in the field when mother was murdered;
-Informant heard this story when he was 5 years old;
-They were viewed as heroes by poor. Not talking about it too much;
Not many people still tell stories to their children. So much television now (14:43);

-Thinks his children might be too old to enjoy these stories, some of his stories told to classes on Fridays. Taught for 24 years. Only 6 years he's a supervisor principal;
-Children would sometimes tell stories they heard from their parents & grandparents;

Mary Fentroy, Cade, LA (Creole):

Bouki et Lapin en bas et en haut (C.T. 1030/ K581.2).
-Bouki et Lapin faisant la récolte (patates douces et maïs) (same story as above);
-Lapin's always getting something and Bouki gets nothing. Hanging/drowning Lapin would be a sin?;
-Throwing Lapin in the briers. Lapin always won;

-Red Riding Hood & Goldilocks and Three Bears (22:52);

'Tit frere et la vieille femme (CT 327C);
-Three brothers who ran away from home (same story as above) (can't remember the latter part);
-Little brother rescued big brothers from old lady who ate children;
-Little brother didn't sleep well, maybe he was worried. Old lady brought him some tea to soothe his stomach or having her build a fire to warm him. Woke up brothers while she was gone and left. Put logs under sheets to make as if the boys were still there;
-'Fresh meat';
-Boys would've died if their little brother wouldn't have been with them;

-Bedtime stories to children after they got their lessons (30:44);
-Mary was an only child. Learned these stories from her father;
-Telling stories at school on Fridays. Country schools;
-Little Red Riding Hood;
-Grandmother made her red cape. Why she's called 'Little Red Riding Hood';

Bouki et Lapin couri batiser. Bouki priest. Butter for lunch (same story as above) (36:50);
-'Juste commené,' 'La Moitié,' et 'Licher le fond';
-La paix avec Lapin. Lapin mange tout. Hanging/throwing Lapin in the well would be a sin?;
-Throwing Lapin in the briers. Lapin always outsmarted Bouki;

-Lapin et Chat roasting chestnuts. Cat chasing mice (44:38);
-L'éléphant, le serpent?, et le temps frais. Il a peur de gêler. Monter une montagne, ça fait plus froid en haut;
-Le serpent mordant l'éléphant. Ils ont marché et ont été voir Lapin. Mettre le serpent au côté de la plage et le laisser là;

-Bouki et Lapin et la maison du Diable (Barry asks if she know it but, she doesn't. Also asked about Sauterelle et Froumi earlier and she didn't know that one either) (53:09);

Hubert Reed; Alexandre Manuel;

How the Pascal stories began:
-Piano player played 500-lb piano on his head. Half razorback hog, little mule;
-Il usait ses orteilles pour frotter le violin sur l'archet (à l'envers). Played in G flat;
-Taïeut à Reddell beuglaient;
-Tombé et épaille tous ses notes parterre. Il l'a remis enssemble à l'envers;
-Jouer Jolie Blonde, Le Two Step de Frissons de la Ville Platte sortait. Grand Mamou, Jolie Blonde sortait. Ses notes étaient à l'envers;
-Peinturé at usait des marteaux de forge pour cogner les notes. Un de 16 livres et un de 14/13 livres pour cogner les springs de boghei;
-2 négresses avec des lataniers de 16 pieds de diamètre pour l'évanter. Il jouait bien, tout le monde dansait;
-Sauvages, nègres, et cadiens (2 qualités: à pies gris et à ventre jaune);
-Hitler? cognait le guitar et Tojo jouait le violon. 3 mois passé et il a une cervelle d'éléphant;
-Bande de souris qui fait strip key, go-go girls étaient des puces vu en travers un grand vitre. Ça coûtait pas cher, une douzaine d'oeuf ou un morceau de béquine;
-Tente fait des sacs-à-riz et un tas des peeping toms. Guard avait le bat à Babe Ruth et cognait des home runs chaque fois il trouvait un peeping tom. 12 oeufs pour 15 min., 6 oeufs pour 7 et 3/4 min.;
-Les puces faisaient strip tease;
-Vieux taïeut qu'avait pas de dents/ongles pouvait pas se gratter. Nourissait avec une patate chaude tous les trois jours et trois ou quatre oeufs pourrit;

-Pascal avait 12 pieds de haut et pèsait 70 livres. Maigre et taille 14 dans les souliers (7:01):
-Rode high line wires 700 mph et rouge comme une brèle avec un dent en haut et un en bas comme un écureuil. Il mangeait des noix/des pacanes;
-Il a été en Angleterre pour ésperer Lindburg à mer dessus son bicycle. Il a cogné quelques baleines;
-He answered the phone himself;
-Vieille Tante Coque s'a teint les cheveux verts, avait une moustache, 3 tours au tour de ses oreilles, catogan avec les bouts qui restaient;
-Haler le barbed wire;
-Nonc Olide, son boyfriend, est mort quand il avait 123 ans le 32 de février. La grippe et la gomme? Briques/bloques en ciment chaudes dans le front pour le faire tousser;

-Nonc Olide aimait manger pour son déssert 15 livres des bulls rouge/noir (11:55);
-Son coeur a changé de place. Mal au ventre tout le monde. Mis son coeur dans le dos;
-La limonade de Texas vient du l'eau de la Coulée Duralde;
-L'eau dans le pistes des vaches, t'as pas pour metter autant de sucre. Sucre est cher asteur;
-Delton tout taindu. Marcher dans les pistes de vache;
-Camp avec de la graisse de crapaud;
-Pascal avait été à la lune dans une emballeuse. Oulbié la bloque pour séparer le bale. Coupé un pied de moutard qui vient 10 pieds de diamètre. Perdu la bloque. -Amarré avec des petits chaines de 150 livres;
-Il pouvait pas éteindre sa machine;

-Pascal était gâté, il était enfant unique (16:05);
-Les brancards de son bicycle ont cassé et il fallait ordonner ça. Il a essayé avec une corne de la lune?;
-Bouki nettoies les crachoires et dad arrange les craques? pour 20 ans;
-Tu peux pas retire quand t'arrive en haut. Astronauts;
-He speaks English like a Chinese person;
-Tramp et puis un hobo. Ses pouces;
-Defunct Francis;
-Bottes et des cuillottes verts. 3 our 4 frogs, 1 ou 2 patassas, des écrevisses dans tes poches. T'as ton seafood platter droite-là;
-Making whiskey at Duralde Coulée;
-5 sous la cigarette de Mexique. Fume 3 tours dessus ça et lèves plus haut que ta tête? Pas trop cher;

-Dyes: des verts, des bleus, des rouges, et des blancs (20:38);
-Spin around, corners around cut, like a top;
-2 'tit razobacks (mulets) pour l'emballeuse avec des patches dessus leurs yeux;
-'Tit verrat et des nouvelles d'en haut (si ça mouille);
-Sauver le foin;
-Combine à Jim a 700 pieds de haut. Coupe ces moutards gros comme les gros chênes de mers;
-Maudit Lapins raising hell. Diamètre de 6 pieds. Feuilles 16 pieds de large, 24 pieds de longs. Déjà salé et pimenté;
-Plus fort dessus le bord brillant de la lune que dessus le bord noir;
-Plus mexicains;
-Sac-à-riz. Aiment pas les poivres;
-Jim a tout dévéloppé l'affaire et ésperait les astronauts pour les flag comment atterir;
-Léger;

-Bring headlights, ox, and 'charrette' to explore the dark side of the moon (25:11);
-Ox digs so fast in 15 min., he'll be 20 feet deep;
-Bully (Boulé Sevenne) dug a whole 9 X 14 and 100 ft deep;
-Pèsait 7 tonnes. Commencé à acheter la terre, haut comme un water well tank;
-Cloche d'église pendu dans le cou;
-Partir à 4/4:15 am en pétard/balloon. Prend 26 heures et quelques minutes;
-Tenir son souffle 3 heures de temps;
-Comme une pelote en élastique;
-Premièrement découvrir la lune. Pascal et son bicycle cassé;
-Ouragans et tourbillions 3 mois passé. Ramassé mémère qui brodait dans sa berceuse, "land sake, what a breeze";

La roulette (30:46);
-Cable en acier;
-Le village qui l'aimait pas en Chine/Pacific/Guam/Manilla;
-Put cord around whole village;
-Coupé en dent avec le passepartout de 50 pieds de longs à Bouki;
-Jolie fille à la bar;
-Your mother still cooks for the priest?;
-Woke him up to go to Hollybeach;
-Bouki et les sauvages en haut;
-Corne à Mardi Gras de 7 pieds de long;
-Tué des éléphants dans la guerre. Tiré avec fusils de 90" de canon. 4,000 livres. Slingshots;

-Jim fed that way while in Japan (34:55);
-3 or 4 boxcars of rocks for his slingshot;
-Il restait a Mamou et a parti après son cheval est mort. L'anse à Guiguiche?:
-L'anse à Guiguiche est à l'autre bord de Chatainger. Pas de soleil, seulement des étoiles parce qu'ils sont dans un trou. Comme une montagne;
-Des macaronis coupés en tranches. Bloque de 2 miles carré;
-Redwood Trees in Californie;
-Istitube? drôle de nom;
-Le chien à Pascal était le plus petit dans le monde, il pèsait 3 onces. Les chevreuils se sauvaient quand il allait à la chasse. Il le perdait pour 3 mois de temps;

-Le chien a passé à travers le canon, double-barrel, et a jamais arrêté (40:40);
-Could hear him cry from 3 miles away in the woods;
-Barry parle while people play pool: Vendre du pain dessus les routes. Revenir à son boss avec 36 poules, 12? douzaines d'oeufs, et 10 sous. Pas d'argent;
-Entre Bouki et Jim, ils ont tout cassé les boutiques alentour d'ici;
-Boire du lait et manger du pain;
-Jim set a trap on the staircase;
-28 population 100 quarts par jour pour aller nourrir leurs patassas;
-9-lb bream;

***Only estimate of year were included in original notes, no specific month or day***

Clence Ancelet:

-Le grand chou à Nonc Bee Dugas (le nonc à sa femme (Verna Mae), garçon à Narcisse Dugas). Edouard Dugas et Michel Dugas des frères à Narcisse (faiseurs de maïs);
-Bee était un bon blagueur. Giraumont de 60 livres dedans la cheminée. Grosses patates douces pour faire un pont;
-Myrtle? Broussard's feed store. La graine a poussé autant des navets;
-Boucherie de cochon de 32-35 personnse chez Elinor Lantier et Nonc Bee est arrivé et commençait à parler de son grand chou;
-La grosse chaudière ils ont trouvé sur la terre d'école entre Scott et Duson. Ils doutaient que le vieux monde usait cette chaudière pour faire bouillier ses choux;
-L'homme qui était après faire la chasse à musquette (heard from grandfather Louis Ancelet);
-11 cloux et a attaché un chevreuil à un arbre. Cloué chaque pouce. Tuer 2 lapins avec le peau de chevreuils, 12 perdrix aveec un lapin. Ran 7 miles when he felt something move in his pants after crossing the bayou, afraid it was a snake. Tired out, stopped, and found 2 dozen bream. Attrapé 2 tourtes quand il levait ses main pour remercier le Bon Dieu;

-Des cerfs-volants du vieux temps (4:42);
-Papiers fin qui venaient dans le boites de souliers, poteaux de barrière de cypre mis en côté pour faire de la graisse, couper 3 palettes (2 grandes et une petite, une bride), queue avec du vieux linge, la farine et l'eau pour faire de la colle pour coller 2 papiers. Bride fait avec du fil #8 qui coutait 5 sous;
-Louis Ancelet montrer aux petits enfants des canards indiens qui couvaient;
-Ozone, Louis Jr.'s heifer, had 14 calves. 3 miles north of Crowley in the woods. Un taure et un beouf;
-Sirop fait au sucrerie;
-Des pralines aux benné. 5-6 ft. tall always planted by the fence so cattle wouldn't eat it. Small seed as white as milk. Cut with scissors, put in cotton sack, and dried on a sheet/tarpualin (something that they couldn't fall through) and made sure they didn't get wet from rain/dew. Put in a closed (sugar) sack and beat with a broomstick. Une chique dans l'eau voulait dire que le sirop était fini;
-Des pistaches grillées et des pralines aux sirop. Le sucre, le riz, et la farine était seulment à manger parce que c'était acheté;

-La grande eau de '27. Tout a noyer. 8.5-10 inches of rain in 3 days. Lloyd Ancelet. Had to put all animals that weren't lost on front porch (9:40);
-La grande eau de '40. Lost everything but 6 lbs of cotton seed. 6 ft. of water covering cotton. About 8.5 inches of rain. Lost whole crop. Barry's dad went to the CC camp. Quand Malcolm "Coco" Broussard (garçon à Lee Broussard) qui travaillait pour REA/Slemco. "Highwater";
-La levée à Henderson a cassé. Lloyd (Clence's brother) worked on it 12 hours a day for 10 cents an hour. Made first levee with horses and mules and broke in '27. -Water all the way to the border of Lafayette, Delasalle Normand School, la butte des Abadies à Carencro. Pêcher des choupiques/goujons jaunes là. Nonc McGee, Loyd, et Clence;
-Seiner des écrevisses dans une maison abandonné avec Mr. Greo qui avait un truck. Water stayed 7-8 months;
-Mr. Whitney Trosclair avait un cheval et un bouriquet;
-Water covered houses, ruined cars. Not many fatalities because people were forced to evacuate;
-Why people from Breaux Bridge, Cecilia, Nina all know how to do carpentry, painter, etc. everything needed to rebuild;
-Le monde de la Prairie Basse asking for Silver Lace Wine Dot (chickens);
-1927, a man came to get sweet potato vines to plant from Conque's Superet/Narcisse Dugas;
-Nonc Bee donne 3 ou 5 rangs de patates pour sa famille manger dans l'hiver;
-Des bétailles ont noyé, mais pas un tas de monde;

-Slim et Shorty qu'a fait la course. La fille du roi peut voir voir quoi c'est il a, elle peut pas voir ça l'autre avait (15:48);
-La negresse qu'a cassé ses globes de lampes;
-La femme qu'a trouvé le boeuf et la vache en amour. Barguiner la gaïme pour des groceries et étouffer la gaïme;
-La femme avec la gaïme de 11/12 livres. Elle a tordu le cou et pouvait plus la barguiner pour des groceries;
-Le bouriquet à Monsieur Trosclair. Pendant l'eau haut de '40. La jeune pouliche. Cash or credit;

-Le poisson armée. Octave Escudier? Mordre dessus des chenilles de papillion, des lèches, des huitres. Pêcher des patassas et le poisson armée de 12 pieds (20:50);
-Le poisson armée de 20 pieds sortit de l'eau avec un paire de mulets, une paire de boeufs, et sa foi;
-Les pistaches à Nonc Bee Dugas;
-Deux garçons et une vieille fille qui s'a acheté un char/Model-T Ford. Patch tires, there were no spare tires;
-Un serpent fouetteuse--Bluerunner. White on the bottom and green, not bigger than your thumb. Easton et Isaac Domingue sauter la barrière. Not poisonous, but would beat people;

-Bringing in hay on 15 arpents on hay rake. Daisy. Tuer le serpent avec le palonnier (25:36);
-Des vivers avec un scoop. Rabourer (plowing) with a team of mules and charrue simple. Le viver à William Credeur 12 pieds creux. Faire un chemin chez William;
-Des serpents qui tétait des femmes et les bébé maigrissait. Le serpent mêttait la queue dans la bouche du bébé. Vrai. La maman s'appercevait pas. Ils passaient à travers les craques dans la maison;
-La chasse des renards. Ils ont tué 5 dessus 7 à la place des vieux garçons John et Tène? Domingue. 0.5 miles toward sunrise from Ossun. Never had electricity and always did with what they had. Stayed on dirt floor after floor wore out. One just died and Mme. Harris Domingue is taking care of the other one (her brother-in-law);
-Le puit qui levait les baquets tout seul?;

Les 'Tits Français qui ont tué Martin Begnaud (29:21);
-Chez Mr. Leo Judice. Turn right at Guaranty Bank (now Chase Bank) in Scott, first store on the left where Landry sells furniture. Across the street, Martin Begnaud had a store. The frenchmen went to buy something at night and had 'une lime à 3 écalles pour filer des égouines'. Killed him, took money, and went back to France. -They lived by the canal/junkyard. Les taïauts et la seule maison à l'autre bord du canal. It bothered them/their conscience enough for them to return and turn themselves in;
-Martin Webre hanged them, bad weather that day. He took the noose home and couldn't sleep, he had to bring it back. Leave things like that for God to handle;

***Only year was included in original notes, no specific month or day***

Ambrose Thibodeaux:

-First accordion bought second-hand by picking wild coffee in the rice (fields?) to get the money to buy it around age 15 years;
-Father or mother had to decide what was bought. Ambrose's father wanted to see the accordion to see if it was worth it. The guy selling the accordion brought it over for Ambrose's father to check out and Ambrose was surprised to see his father start playing accordion;
-Ambrose knew his father played fiddle, but he didn't know he played accordion;
-He bought the accordion for Ambrose. A "Lester" brand. Ambrose doesn't remember if Monarchs were out yet;
-Ambrose got a Monarch when he was 18-19 years old. He needed a better accordion to play dances;
-He had an accordion in between his Monarch and his Lester, but he doesn't remember the brand name. Back then, you were happy to get the accordion. You didn't' care about what brand it was;
-Monarch and Sterling accordions were the best sounding and longest lasting accordions around at the time;
-Blue Steel Reeds no longer available after the world wars because the metal was needed for more important things;
-His current accordion he bought 12 years ago from an old accordion player who had quit playing. His niece wanted to buy it for her husband and Ambrose got it from him. He sold it to Ambrose because the singer of the band couldn't sing with a D accordion. They sold it for a C accordion. Ambrose was driving a school bus delivering bread every two days. One Friday morning, Ambrose told the guy who had a boutique for the guy selling the accordion to come meet him at his shop. $150 for the Monarch. Ambrose got it Saturday morning and it was better than Ambrose expected. Ambrose would've given him more for it if he had known how good it was;

-D Accordion bought 6 years before he retired;
-Only 12 years Ambrose has picked up playing the accordion again;
-38 years without playing. He sold the accordion when he got married and started working. You couldn't wear out the team of horses working in the fields all day and staying gone all night. There wasn't much money in playing dances back then. 50 cents from playing a dance was a lot;

Courtship practices:
-Ambrose quit going to the dances, until his 4 daughters were old enough to go to the dance. Then, he'd have to bring them and wait in the car until they were ready to go home;
-Forgetting all the old songs he used to play;
-Giving his daughters the chance to enjoy their youth. Back then, boys could go by themselves, but girls couldn't. And boys didn't come pick up girls and bring them to the dance. If a boy wanted to see a girl, it was at a dance or on a Sunday afternoon at home, not outside without any supervision;
-Now girls go pick up the boys;
-Raising a family by working. Ambrose had to work hard to support a wife and kids;
-La vie d'un musicien à voyager pour faire de l'argent. Ambrose traveling to Washington (D.C.) and Virginia;
-La vie d'un musicien. Bringing your family on the road with you?;
-Ambrose had the mindset of working in the fields from sunup to sundown if one wanted to make it in life;
-Jouer des bals dans le temps. He started learning at 15 years old. He started playing dances at 17. 4-hour dances and playing for himself;
-Ambrose wanted to go to a dance with girls, not sit in with the band and play music. There weren't as many musicians as there are now;
-He played many dances;
-Leaving music for marriage and starting again 38 years later;
-Marital troubles, jealousy associated with being a musician;
-Ambrose bought a Sterling Accordion in 1940 and sold it not long after because he wasn't interested in playing music too much;
-Revon Reed's radio program in Eunice? on Saturday mornings. Ambrose decided he would go on that program because a lot of them weren't professionals;

Relearning songs;
-Ambrose played on Revon's program all by himself. Sometimes there was a fiddler or a triangle player to back you up;
-Ambrose had never played with a fiddle or guitar before. Always accordion by itself or with spoons/triangle backing up;
-Merlin Fontenot was the first fiddler to play with Ambrose;
-First record with Rachou at La Louisianne Records;
-They couldn't practice too much because Merlin was living in Florida at that time (in the service). He would come once a year on vacation;
-Recording with Preston (Manuel?) and Merlin on a Tuesday. Revon and Preston came on Monday to practice 8 songs with Ambrose before going record;
-Rehearsing the day of recording;
-La Valse du Grand Marais was the first song recorded. After they finished recording, Rachou came out and asked for 12 songs like they just played to make an album;
-"La valse qu'a cassé la glace.";
-Albums sold better than singles according to Rachou;
-Royalties and all the albums he wanted for his family. Talking about it his daughter and with Merlin;
-12 songs vs just 2;
-Ambrose didn't have to pay anything. He's still getting royalties from it;
-Making other albums. 2 are already made and the fourth hasn't been pressed yet because the last album Ambrose released was still selling too well;
-Young people buying records;
-Ambrose getting royalties from across the country and even outside of the country (France);
-There 6 years he's retired and he quit playing dances, but he's still called to play festivals;

Popularity of Cajun music at festivals:
-Chicago, Washington (D.C.), Virginia, Florida (television);
-Ambrose enjoys traveling and people appreciating Cajun music;
-Mindset of only Cajuns liking Cajun music. Americans like Cajun music too;
-All kinds of different music at these festivals;
-Article of Ambrose in the paper?;
-People followed Ambrose;
-Different bands playing on different stages at the same time;
-Musicians play better music when people appreciate their music;

Appreciation of style and timing and the importance for dancing:
-Ambrose was one of the best/easiest musicians to dance to;
-Telling a difference and making more people dance after he let someone sit in on accordion;
-Importance of timing for dancers;
-Young people coming to learn Ambrose's style;
-Seconding is list a watch/clock. Equal time between notes/beats;
-Dancers can't dance to musicians who don't keep time. Ambrose learned that while dancing;
-People not using their bass box. Ambrose can't play without playing his bass box because that's what keeps time and fills the sound/makes better music;
-Barry notes Ambrose plays with good timing and shows it by looks too;
-Ambrose would sometimes play accordion on/behind his head before he got married. Showing what he could do without messing up the dancers. It was a show and you had to practice it. Had to know how to play accordion before he could do the show part;
-Tour de force when he was a young musician. He can't do that anymore, he'll be 72 years old the 18th of October (35:57);
-Playing 4 hours, songs one after the other. Ambrose likes to play music;
-Playing at Crowley High School and "Old Folks" home;
-Georgia, Pennsylvania (2 places), Virginia. He can't go because he won't have Merlin and he won't go for just any amount of money (all expenses paid with $150 a musician);
-Ambrose had the right to collect 25% since he was the manager of the band. $600 for 4 musicians, each one got $150;
-Spending $1 his first trip to Washington for a coke;
-Ambrose got the highest price. The following year, the booking agent wanted Ambrose back for a lower price, but Ambrose wouldn't lower it because of the precedent. He didn't want his musicians thinking he was taking a cut of their pay;
-Another booking agent trying to get Ambrose to go play;
-People think a lot of Ambrose. Ambrose said he shouldn't hesitate to pay what Ambrose was asking for then;
-Not having a permit for one of the festival;
-Not going without Merlin because Merlin's too busy playing music;
-Merlin didn't go with Ambrose to St. Petersburg or Chicago (Dewey Balfa went to Chicago with him);
-Ambrose likes the way Dewey plays;
-The current state of music--festivals;

Ambrose Thibodeaux (72)

***Possible Copy on AN1-255?***

Mrs. Alcide Broussard:

Oral history of Ossun area and Scott:
-Walking to school house. 1 teacher with 60 kids. Learning in French & English up until 5th grade;
-Bruce Martin was the school teacher by Mr. Arceneaux's?;
-No gravel roads at that time, had to walk through dirt, mud, fields to get to school;
-Going to catechism/make first communion in Rayne once a week on Sundays. There was no church in Scott at that time;
-Her brothers made first communion in Scott;
-Father Dutch? the best priest (Father J. M. Detchemendy Pastor at Sts. Peter & Paul Catholic Church in Scott between 1906-1919);
-Nonc Joe, un Hebert, Alcide Judice (Leo Judice's father);
-L. Leo Judice School;
-Scott wasn't big, there was no bank, no pharmacy, more? stores that there are now;
-Main Street in Scott;
-She never went to school in Scott;
-Higher grades at the school in Scott. Those that had the means went to higher schooling;
-L'école des Matthieu at the corner of Highway 93 and Rue Bon Secours ('Brud" & Vern Domingue);
-Private/public schools;
-No black people at school or church. Only churches were in Lafayette, Carencro, & Rayne;
-Going to Nonc Joe's once a year by wagon;
-Barouche? was covered with curtains around and 2 seats (not a buggy. Carioles was just 1 seat) Wagons, sulkies (2 wheels, a seat, and a compartment below, horses);
-4-5 of Jacques Arceneaux's kids (relatives of Mrs. Alcide) traveling by sulky;
-Mr. Jenkins - English school teacher;
-Catechism in French. Her mother taught catechism in French. Her mother died when she wasn't 17 years old yet;
-Her and her sister taught Catechism after their mother died;

Reading only in French:
-Praying rosaries in French beginning to become rare;
-Ossun was never big, always had a store at the corner of Highway 93 and Wyman Rd. (Romero's Grocery Store?);
-Sidney Sonnier?, Adam Webre, Hebert, Nonc Joe, Chiasson (oncle à sa mère);
-60 years Mrs. Alcide lives where she lives now;

Les bals/salles de danse:
-Father would bring her to the dance and they never stayed until midnight. Couldn't stay long because you had to go to mass in Rayne the next morning;
-Les bals de noce;
-Accordions were
-Simar LeRose? et sa soeur, Carmelite jouaient l'accordéon?;
-Tout le monde était Catholique, pas Méthodiste ou arien d'autre;
-Not being able to travel when it would rain;
-Legend of Martin Begnaud, her mother had a book about it. Alexis et Ernest LeBlanc?;
-Martin had a store and a lot of money, and they killed him and took all his money;
-Hanging the LeBlanc brothers in Lafayette, 'les 'tits français';
-Most everyone spoke French around here. English was rare except in schools;
-Les dégos parlaient français (mais croche);
-Nonc Jogue Haul? - old school teacher;
-Not the same dialect as France;
-'Black French' spoken in Breaux Bridge;
-St. Martinville one of the oldest settlments;
-The farthest she went was Sulphur to get married;
-Traveling to Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Hammond, Covington, Houston after she was widowed;
-Only locals worked in Ossun;
-Grandchildren who speak (or cannot speak) French;

Speaking English instead of French. Ridiculing for being from the country:
-People who speak only English aren't any better than people who only speak French;
-Louis Bearb, Mme. Pellerin babysits him and speaks French;
-Government and outside world all anglophone;
-Les cadiens tout parlaient français;
-"Too late to teach French in schools";
-Speaking French or English at schools;
-Learning to read;
-She can name everything in English, but she can't have a conversation;

Agricultural History: hoeing, picking cotton, digging potatoes, breaking corn:
-Sugar Mill at Elie 'Greo' Sonnier's;
-Mme. Nobert's father (Domingue) had a corn shucking mill?;
-Nonc Beb's (Bosso's brother) Tannery;
-Growing sugar cane for syrup;
-Sugar cane don't make good syrup anymore;
-Monroe syrup good;
-Everyone made their own syrup;
-Des sorghos, Sorghum for pigs;
-Shucking corn and milling corn to use to make cornbread/couche-couche;
-Mr. Vincent and Mr. Adrien milled corn using horse power;
-Grits and flour;
-Sickness associated with processed foods;
-Her father died at 73, her grandmother died at 89 years old and never saw a doctor;

Folk medicine:
-Laying down on a bed of willow leaves for sunstroke. Treating for sunstroke;
-Des herbes à Malo (lizard's tail, swamp lily) to treat stomachaches. Soaked in whiskey;
-Everyone had a little "marsh" on their property, and some people would grow rice there;
-Only eating rice on Sundays. Protecting rice from blackbirds and processing the rice;
-Eating grits during the week;
-There was no money back in the day. Cotton sold for 5-6 cents a pound;
-Living off the land, everyone had everything they needed at home;
-47 years father had a slaughterhouse (twice a week, Tuesday and Saturday). Separating the meat among neighbors;
-No electricity, wood stoves to heat during the winter;
-Les pralines aux herbes à ver;
-Les fleurs de sirop (white flower) 24 de Juin;
-Du thé de cabri, it grow on turnrows;
-Du thé de sassafras pour la rougeole;
-Des graines de Mamou pour la pneumonie;
-De la moutard;
-Covering Mamou plant with a mosquito net to keep the birds from eating it;
-There were no doctors back then, people were not sick like they are now;

Blacksmith shops:
-Buying plow blades and bringing them to the blacksmith;
-Various Blacksmiths around Ossun;
-Her nephew is a priest in Eunice who asks her for this kind of information;

How people got money. They didn't spend money, they kept it:
-100-200 arpents at $2/arpent;
-No bank around, maybe one in Lafayette;
-Burying money during Civil War time;
-Union Soldiers stealing cattle and horses;
-Old men (her grandfather's age) went to fight in the war;
-People forgot where they buried money;

L'ile aux Pins:
-Dédé Anderson, Alcide Judice and Bigeaux Chiasson and a buried pot of money/gold;
-One of her aunt's husband's, Lidley 'Nunu' Dugas
-Indian heads found while plowing;
-Placing food in a room to hide it from the indians?;
-Owl a sign or mortality when hunting for treasure. Someone dying soon if a relative dies on a Sunday. All tales;
-Bee LeBlanc treating for all kinds of stuff (bleeding and sun stroke). It couldn't cross water. You had to ask for their treatment and you couldn't pay them;
-Elson Faul's mother treats for bleeding and her treating a hog they were butchering;
-Treating cut horses and warts (corn in a paper bag);
-Treating must be passed on between sexes;
-Lady treating for rheumatisms and shingles;
-Prayers, not accepted in the Catholic Church or by doctors?
-Treating for pneumonia;
-1st Doctor in Scott;
-Théophile treating for worms. Treatment included crushing garlic and eating it with sugar;
-Elie Trahan treating for sun stroke;
-Dr. Tuney;

Mrs. Alcide Broussard (85)

Joseph Wiltz:

-Parks, LA name origin. William Parks was an African American man working on the railroad. The workers asked him what this village/town was called and he called it Parks. -Depot, store, etc. until it grew to what it is today (Before 1912);
-1912-1926: Living in Houston, Texas;
-Personal History (WWI). Drafted for army in 1917 and serving until 1919;
-Being born/living on Bayou Teche. Father raising cattle and hogs;
-1920: November, sent to hospital in Alexandria, he broke ? in 1918. January, he went to hospital in New Orleans;
-1922: Sent to an industrial school in Alabama Doctors sent him home after 3 months to protect his eyes? Sent home to his family until 1923;
-Not enough money to support his family, returning to the company he worked for during the war. Getting a medical certificate to allow him to work? Worked until -August 1926 when he was forced to quit that job and become a postman;
-Opening a grocery store in September 1926;
-Flood of 1927. Father and a neighbor stayed, but Wiltz was in Lafayette with his family. Went back to Parks on 27 July 1927 to a ruined store;
-Government rations. Working in the fields until 1940;
-Flood of 1940 and the boat;
-1942 - WWII. Returning to the company in Orange, Texas that built boats until June;
-Coming back to his store;
-Children/relatives/neighbors in the service and farming;
-Son returning from the service, farming for a few years, and becomes a plumber/mechanic;
-The store was a weekend business, nothing to depend on. Quit that to farm;
-6 girls, 3 boys, wife, and himself. Daughters going to school/college to study nursing, pharmacist (husband was a pharmacy who worked for the government), dentist's assistant, X-ray technician;
-He's the last resident of Parks;
-Promised Land built by Joseph Dugas. Farmland;
-Wiltz's father was a storyteller. He had to fight with the Confederacy because he was a free person of color 18 years of age;
-William Robert Alvin sold to Ben Potier. Wiltz's father had first choice, but he didn't want to buy it. 6 brothers (Wiltz family) on a small farm was okay (87 acres for $1,800). Potier sold it to Dugas who established 'Promised Land';
-Wiltz's father named it 'Promised Land';
-'l'Esprit Présent";

Bible story, 'Promised Land':
-Stories of slavery from his father who was a free person of color;
-Cotton and Sugar Cane (Dugas and Babineaux 'plantations');
-'Sucre Rouge';
-Agriculture (rice, corn, cotton, sugar) worked by hand. Processing rice;
-Grits Mill. Processing sugar cane and making syrup;
-Bayou Teche serving as a water source to drink. No factories around here. Not being able to dump anything (sugar mill waste) in the bayou or drink the water from it (due to poison, chemicals, bacteria). The water is no longer clean it used to be;
-Le Chêne d'évangeline, port in St. Martinville got stuff from New Orleans. Bayou along Courtableau, Breaux Bridge, all the way to Opelousas by boat;
-Origin of French presence (Indian Territory before they were forced West to Texas) French descendants who speak French, but not Parisian French;
-Wiltz knows English, but his Missal to follow mass is in French and Latin;
-Trying to retain the little French he used as a child;
-Can't say if 'Teche' is an Indian or French name. They came from Canada from the north, Opelousas to St. Martinville;
-Catholic Church in St. Martinville 2nd or 3rd oldest church in the state of Louisiana. Just refurbished/restored it;
-Agriculture territory. Division between St. Martinville and Breaux Bridge. Growing beans for animals, melons, pumpkins, lots of vegetables;

Family history:
-His father died at 94 years old (born in 1846, died in 1940). Paralyzed (la voix et la langue). He always said he wanted to live to be 100 because his grandmother (Wiltz's great-grandmother) lived that long;
-90 year old (oldest) brother who's a doctor in New Orleans blind;
-Wiltz is the fourth brother. Four siblings left ('rendu au poteau');
-Thanking God for the grace He gave him because his life was not wasted. Worked hard, big family, good life;
-Home schooling because it was expensive to send kids to Catholic School in Lafayette;
-23 grandchildren and 1 great-grandchild and their schooling (law, working on airplanes);

Joseph Wiltz (84)

Sady Courville, Preston Manuel:

Sady Courville:

-Comment Sady a commencé à jouer la musique;
-Son père était un musicien, la famille Courville n'étaient pas connus comme des musiciens, c'était les Frugé;
-Dernières années des 1700s, les Frugé sont venus ici et ils jouaient tout la musique;
-La musique du violon (un ou deux violons);
-La musique cours dans la famille;
-Son père et son oncle dans le portrait, leur mère chantait des airs pour qu'ils apprennent comment jouer;
-Les airs, des contredanses, des mazurkas, des breakdowns, des gigues, des valsuriennes, des valses, des danses carrées;
-Le mouchoir sur le plancher. Il fallait giguer autour du mouchoir sans touchant un coin;
-Son père aurait joué un bal pour $1-1.50;
-Eraste Courville (père à Sady) et Arville (le frère à Eraste) jouait tout le temp ensemble;
-Aller au bal en wagon (1907). Bol et Charlot: les deux chevaux;
-Cas de malice?, la mère à Sady n'aimait pas danser;
-Bol et Charlot, Sady et Sadia était la première danse que Eraste et Arville aurait joué;
-Sady est né en 1905;
-Son père faisait Sady cogner la quatrième corde du violon au même temp qu'il jouait (fiddlesticks);
-Father gave up music for a few years;
-Starting to play with Dennis McGee and Amédé Ardoin;
-Sady a premièrement commencé à jouer avec Amédé. Sady aimait ça;
-Du monde de couleur;
-Seconder l'accordéon;
-Un band avait un accordéon et un violon ou deux violons et un basse-tringue? (triangle);
-Abe's Palace à Eunice. Chataigner le samedi soir et Eunice le dimanche soir;
-Amédé Ardoin: des bals privés et des bals des noces pour des blancs;
-Amédé était un homme bien respectueux et respectable. Il restait à Crowley wuand il est mort;
-1928-1929 faire des plaques avec Dennis McGee;
-Dennis était bien connu et populaire;
-Angélas LeJeune;
-Sept. 1929--Sady arrête de jouer et recommence en 1954 quand il a reçu son violon de son père après il est mort;
-Sady a arrêté de jouer parce qu'il avait un travail et ne pouavait pas faire une vie avec la musique;

La différence entre la musique d'Amédé et la nouvelle musique:
-La musique change tout le temps. Reproductions à Aldus Roger;
-Amédé Ardoin, Angélas LeJeune et Iry? LeJeune jouait différent qu'Aldus;
-Modernized music, plus de musiciens change le style de musique;
-"La Vraie Musique Cadienne" de 1900-1935 ou 1936 deux violons et l'accordéon;
-"Un Vrai Band" asteur - accordéon, violon, rhythm guitar, steel guitar, bass guitar, drums;
-Sady aime mieux jouer la vieille manière. La nouvelle musique n'est plus aussi "Cadien" que avant, il faut préserver la musique que les Acadiens ont emmené ici;
-Son père a recommencé à jouer quand Sady avait arrêté;
-Jouer pour des jam sessions/soupers;
-Revon Reed radio program 9 ans passé. Sady avait peur du microphone;
-Il est trop vieux pour jouer beaucoup de bals;
-Un bal de 5 heures sans boire plus que du 7-UP ou du Coke. Tu n'as pas pour boire pour jouer de la musique et s'amuser;
-Sady joue de la musique pour relaxer;
-Musique dans le sang;
-6-piece Dixieland Band dans les 1920s--Sady jouait tenor banjo. Sady jouait aussi le piano, les tambours, et l'orge, mais tout à l'oreille et pour des noces. Jouer la musique caiden aussi. Avant il s'est marié;
-Arrêter de jouer pour travailler;
-Le meilleur joueur de second violon. Un bon second dans la musique cadien est bien nécessaire pour aider ceux qui joue l'air;
-Doubler les trois différentes cordes (ADG) en bas la petite corde (E);
-Le père à Sady seconder son oncle. Sady a tout le temps seconder Dennis, Angélas, Amédé;
-La musique à Sady et Dennis blend ensemble. Ça ne dépend pas dessus comment t'es un bon musicien, mais comment tu mets la musique ensemble pour la faire sonner bien. Apprendre à jouer avec des autres;
-S'habituer à des jeux/styles des différents musiciens et jouer des différents styles avec différents monde;
-Des musiciens que Sady avait apprécié jouer avec: deux violons avec Dennis McGee, l'accordéon avec Nathan Abshire;
-Nathan est beaucoup aisé à jouer avec;

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Preston Manuel:

-Jouer le guitare avec J.B. Fuselier (l'accordéon et violon), Chuck Guillory & the Rhythm Boys, Nathan Abshire, Eddie Bearb & the Bristol Ramblers ("Hillbilly Bands");
-Nathan Abshire--smoothness, aisé à jouer avec parce que il joue comme il faut (pas trop vite ou doucement, une danse complète, bon "timing";
-Il a essayé l'accordéon quand il était jeune, mais il aimait chanter et s'accompagner avec le guitare;
-Jimmy Rogers;
-La musique réligieuse (jouer avec des prêches et des cantiques);
-Frère "Tit dor?" Cormier et Lawrence Thibodeaux lui a montré Preston ses premiers chords;
-Premier band Cadien--J.B. Fuselier lui a volé pour aller jouer à Iota. 2 guitares et 1 violon;
-Miller's Merrymakers. Beethoven Miller et son père (Edward, leur manager en 1936). Ils jouaient tous les soirs;
-Faire des plaques. $100 pour 4 plaques ($25 par plaque);
-Sady Courville with Preston Manuel: Record royalties. Voyage gratuit à la Nouvelle Orléans;
-Royalties de l'album du bougre de Berkley, CA?;
-J.B. Fuselier & his Merrymakers after Miller's Merrymakers;
-Dennis and Sady got each $18;
-Preston avec les Balfa (Le Sauvage dessus le Chicot et La Valse de Bambocheur). Juste lui et Rodney Balfa dessus guitare;
-L'album avec Ambroise Thibodeaux $15 et $25 pour faire des albums;
-Harrison Fontenot;
-$50 pour l'album (Preston, Sady, et Hubert?);
-Floyd a donné Preston $5 pour payer ses portes;
-Faire plus pour un bal ($20-25);
-Country Western à Nasvhille le fait riche (Webb Pierce et 'Wandering'). $40,000 après vendre des millions de plaques;
-Hackberry Ramblers l'ont coupé 10 fois avant qu'ils étaient content;
-4-string tenor banjo (de Sears-Roebuck) à Sady de quand il jouait avec Dixieland Band. Il l'a vendu à Hubert? qui l'a vendu à Miller;
-Miller a commencé dessus le guitare, mais c'était trop fort. Tenor banjo gardait un bon temp sec;

Sady Courville (70), Preston Manuel (59)

Gladie:

-Le garçon qui avait des grands cheveux et la grande barbe (Jésus Christ marchait);
-Naked in a hospital, looking for his gun because he thought some people were trying to break into his house to steal his son's money;
-Clément between 88-90;
-Baptismal certificate would tell his age;
-Il est cochon depuis il est vieux;
-Les fleurs qui fleurissent ne sentent jamais bon;
-Conte de chien qui allait chier?;
-Bouki et Lapin;
-Il connaissait un tas des contes dans le temps;
-Il a oublié tous ces contes. Il connaissait mieux ses contes que ses prières;
-Conter des contes pour des menteries;
-Peut-être ça reviendrait s'il avait quelque chose pour le pousser;
-Les chiens qui jappaient et qui faisaient le monde passer la buit blanche;
-Le serpent qui montait la jambe;
-Mr. Jack? Rougeau dormait pas dans une maison décroché;
-He stole a pair of mares to work in the fields and went to court for that;
-Jules Baronné?;
-Couper du bois et faire boucherie l'hiver;
-Maman Clément cuit déjeuner et Rougeau allant à la chasse. Rougeau a volé tous les biscuits pour aller chasser;

-Le tour de la maison de court;
-Biggest crook and wanderer;
-His mother was a big black lady and his father was white. He had never realized it was his mother, he thought it was just a servant;
-Whites and blacks not eating together;
-Near Opelousas;
-A lot of interracial marriages;
-Narcisse Arceneaux;
-Interracial marriages not rare today. A lot of things were hidden back in the day and new didn't travel as fast either;
-Le monde était contre les nègres/les ésclaves;
-La tannerie;
-Chaudière anglaise. Pattes comme des doigts. Son grandpère a arraché une pleine d'argent;
-Fouiller pour de l'argent;
-Chaurdière à sucre enterrée;
-Pauvre vieux homme a trouvé une tombe en brique et a trouvé des piastres;
-Willie Heinan?, un alleman qui buvait comme un cochon;
-5 chevaux atelé à la charrue de 3 lames (gang plow);
-Tourner millionaire après être pauvre;
-Pendent la guerre confédérée, ils ont enterré cet argent;
-Il a du mal tout partout?;
-Annie est la fille à Willie. Tina est sa plus vieille;
-Il parle anglais comme une vache espagnole;
-Tu ne pouvais pas entendre sonner à l'autre bord si tu cognait un bord avec un coup de marteau?;
-L'eau bouillait au soleil, ça faisait assez chaud;
-La trou en bas de la chaudière;
-Devenir fou dans l'hôpital après son stroke;
-Négresse propre, bonne;

Mrs. Walter (Evelia) Boudreaux:

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-Le garçon et l'aveugle (joueur de football qui tenait le vieux homme par la main. Il quémandait/mendiait de jouer et a fait si bien. Il jouait pour son père puisse lui voir jouer). Du prône du prêtre qui a fait l'enterrement d'un de ses cousins de Duson;
-La personne qui méprisait tout le monde. Elle a été se confesser et sa pénitence. Salir le monde sans être capable de reprendre ses mots);
-Des contes de curé/prêtre du Canada;
-La fille qui faisait des somersets (elle avait pour revenir parce qu'elle n'avait pas ses caleçons);
-'Tit Poucette (ses frères et soeurs étaient jaloux et ont essayé de le laisser an arrière dans le bois. Lancer une pierre où ils passaient pour retourner chez lui, mais il ne pouvait pas. La maitresse de la maison du vieux diable et passer la nuit là. La maitresse qui cuisait le souper. Tous les enfants se couchaient avec un petit bonnet. Le vieux diable est arrivé et a mangé celui sans le bonnet. 'Tit Poucette a volé les bottes et l'argent du diable et a finalement retrouvé sa famille qui était pauvre);
-Grand-père et son grand-fils le médecin: le truck et le cadillac (Grandmère se plaint de Grandpère, il voulait quelque chose pour lui rajeunir. Grandpère aurait acheté un nouveau truck. Grandmère était content et a acheté un beau char);

Discussion of telling stories and reviving memories:
-Sa mère racontait ('Tit Poucette, Boukie Lapin, 'Tit Ouaouaron) pour faire passer le temp aux enfants sans tv ou radio. Quelque fois, il y avait des graphophones seulement avec des chansons;
-Souvent après ça faisait noir ou ils avaient las de jouer avec des poupets/des jouets;
-Disant des contes plus forts en vieillissant;
-Elle ne conte jamais des contes à son mari;
-Des bétisses, des histoires en français qui use des mots anglais;
-Son mari ne s'intéresse pas à ça;
-Aller en quelque part et revenir avec des contes nouveaux;
-Conter des contes avec du nouveau monde;
-Conter 6 contes à Barry la première fois qu'il est venu en Janvier 1974. Janvier 1975, une douzaine de contes différents (17 entiers). Elle chercher des autres contes et histoires pour la prochaine fois que Barry revient;
-'Joueur de pélote' un nouveau conte. Un des premiers cousins à son père, de Rayne. Enterré le vendredi et le lundi, un autre cousin était enterré à Carencro;
-Conter des contes beaucoup forts = des menteries;
-Reference to 'Suce ma langue', forgotten story;
-Le si bon chat, le chat remarkable - histoire d'enfant;
-L'homme qui vendait du lait et de la crème. Il était un joueur de violon et jouait pour des enfants. Le chat a commencé à danser. L'homme à l'hôtel voulait acheter le chat, mais il ne l'a pas vendu. Le roi voulait voir ce chat danser. Toute la famille du roi dansait. Le roi voulait le chat. Les faire danser jusqu'à ils sont venus las. Le roi arrête la musique et le chat danser. L'homme ne peut pas arrêter de jouer tant que le chat dansait. Le roi ne pouvait plus danser, ça fait il a pu garder s'en aller avec son chat;
-Le commis-voyageur. Sa fils l'a rencontré cette histoire pour leur anniversaire de mariage de 50 ans;
Son char était cassé et ils demandait pour logement chez des habitants. Coucher avec le 'tit garçon. Le 'tit garçon priait et le commis-voyageur faisait comme si lui priait. Punchline?;

Experience story:
-L'homme de couleur embourbé. Passer Jour de l'An chez Grandmère Richard et Noël chez Grandmère Guilbeau. Beau temp, assis dessus la galerie. L'homme en cariole avec un cheval maigre, il était saoule. La roue tombait, il a perdu le boulon, et les hommes ont été faire des farces avec lui. Fier était son nom. Remettre son boulon. Une vraie histoire;
-Des fois, des vraies histoires sont aussi farce que des contes;
-Les salles de danse dans le voisinage: Silver Slipper à la Pacannière, La salle à Romain Mèche. Happy Landing n'existait pas (à la Pacannière). René et Félix Stelly à Frozard chez les Olivier dessus le chemin d'Arnaudville;
-Les musiciens de la région: Joe Falcon. Lawrence Léger, Ozémé Guilbeau et son frère 'Chaoui'. Joe Robin (accordéon);
-Gérard Forestier à Carencro. Kaliste Comeaux, Noé Brasseux. Esta Hébert;
-Martin Webre and other bouncers;
-La salle à Romain Mèche. Cognait un jeune homme avec son baton;
-Il fallait avoir des constables durs. Mais des fois, des contables abusait leur pouvoir;
-La salle à Ophé Mèche à peu pres 1-3 miles nord de là
-La bataille chez Ophé Mèche, Ogé était avec les Guilbeau contre les Landry;
-Son mari était là et lui et son oncle ont sorti pour voir la commotion;
-Battre dans la savane, puis le chemin;
-Un des battailleurs criait après Jean. Jean allait, mais bien tard;

Mrs. Walter (Evelia) Boudreaux

Madame Gérard:

-Traditional Herb Remedies, traiteurs and recollections from La Coulée Kenny;
-Du plantain-pour dégonfler des bobos. Guérir la pâte d'un cheval. Le faire faner dans l'eau chaude, squeeze bien, et mets lé dessus le mal;
-Elle a pris ça quand elle était au village, de sa mère;
-Partout dans la cour;
-Les docteurs faisaient pas rien;
-Du plantain-un poison;
-Ça prend 1-2 jours pour les bobos sécher;
-L'herbe à malo-pour des bébés et l'inflamation de l'estomach, pour raffraichir;
-3/5/9 mailles pour les dents de bébés;
-Les docteurs donnent juste des shots asteur;
-De la coulée/la terre basse;
-Des inflammations dessus l'estomach;
-La raquette--pour des inflamations. Il faut boire l'eau que tu fanes la raquette en-dedans;
-Jamais voir le docteur;
-Travailler dans ses 60s dessus la glace?;
-Le rheumatisme;
-Les medecines marchent pas;
-Price of doctors ($8 la visite, $4.50 le shot). Elle croit que c'est de l'eau dans les shots. Les herbes dans la cour marche mieux;
-L'herbe à chien--pour arranger/nettoyer le sang;
-Thé du laurier-pour le sang haut et l'estomach, boire tant qu'ils mangeaient;
-Un hiver avec autant de monde malade;
-La dineire-detruire la fievre;
-De la vinéraire-la fievre. Les pharmaciens fait du 3-6 cough medecine avec ça. Faire un thé, mais les enfants n'aiment pas boire ça;
-Elle se force à boire le thé sans du sucre et ne pas le bouillir un tas;

-Ça coupe la fièvre;
-La citronelle (elle est crévée)-la fievre et le sang (thé) Use les feuilles pour faire du thé;
-Jamais avoir un docteur quand elle élevait ses enfants;
-Prendre une 'tite pillule du gouvernement pour le sang haut;
-Les opérations, Dr. Edwards;
-Boire d'une pompe n'est pas bon et la fièvre prend, selon Dr. Edwards;
-Les racines et des graines d'anis-la roséole, la rougeole. C'est doux doux;
-Des candis pleine d'anisette;
-L'anis pour des bébés (measels, smallpox). Les docteurs donnent des shots;
-L'anis est un grosse talle, écraser des graines pout faire du thé;
-La roséole sort bleu. Tu aies ça partout quand tu deviens vieux. Ça sort plus dessus un blond qu'un brun;
-Des cheveux blancs à 20 ans, avant elle avait les cheveux bruns/chatain "une vilaine couleur de cheveux);
-Faire du thé avec les racines et les graines d'anis, manger les feuilles pour le bon gout;
-Bouillir de l'anis pour les malades de dents des bébés;

-Le père à Vickie:
-L'estragon (tarragon)-bon pour proche n'importe quoi. Cone like a pine tree, tremper et boire l'eau;
-Toutes les opérations deviennent des inflammations;
-Une 'tite fleur jaune pour rinser la bouche avec. Un bougre qui s'est fait mal et ne pouvait plus mangeait, il pouvait seulement boire. Iced tea avec ça et un limon l'été;
-Better than what you buy in the store and you don't know what's in it when you buy it;
-Des graines de Mamou grillés dessus un fer blanc, les écrase, et les bouille-bon pour infection, pour du sang;
-10 sous pour 3 graines de Mamou, aller ramasser des graines au ras du chemin de fer;
-La vinéraire est amère, haigre, doux;
-Les médecines sont cher;
-Ses soeurs, leurs médecines ne les aidaient jamais;
-La plus gaillarde de sa famille;
-New Iberia 20 miles from here;
-Quelqu'un qu'est malade?;
-Les traiteurs, il n'y en a plus, ils sont tout morts. La négresse qui l'a traité avec la farine de maïs et du whisky camphré. Elle a élever cette négresse;
-Traiter pour le sang. Mr. Bergeron traitait pour tout, sa mère traitait pour le sang. Elle les traitait de chez elle, traiter un mulet;
-Le Bon Dieu entend, des prières. Sa mère a jamais montré ces prières à ses enfants;
-Abshire traiter les verrures;
-Traiter un veau;
-Son frère traitait;
-Sa mère a arrêté de traiter;
-Mr. Azar? traitait jusqu'à sa mort à 91 ans. Il condusait un tranfers d'école pour 35 ans. Un hack avec des chevaux, puis un tranfers;
-Elle reste ici 53 ans, née dessus la Coulée Kenny;
-Travailler au métier à la Coulée, courte-pointes;
-Une dame de 70 ans qui fait des couverts et devient de la Coulée. Elle s'est mariée avec un Clark et sa mère vit et frappe toujours (95 ans). Mrs. Alexis Clark (Gladys)?;
-écarter du coton pour faire des quilts;
-Des rouettes;
-80 acres de terre, des grosse récoltes de coton et de foin;
-1-2 rang du coton jaune;
-Sauver des carreaux;
-L'oct(r)agon?;

Madame Gérard