Center for Louisiana Studies Archival Catalog
This searchable database provides information on images, documents, and audio and video recordings, made between 1934 and the present.
Blanchet's Teaching Materials 1
Blue binder; 256 pages
D-BL3-009-001
The University of Southwestern Louisiana (USL) attendance sheet for a music summer class (1985) and a receipt of its accuracy sent by Louis J. Schwarz, Director
2 pages; #2-3 (page in PDF)
D-BL3-009-002
3 notes on notecards from Florence Williams on copies of songs
#4
A hand written roll sheet
#5
D-BL3-009-004
Empty USL envelope addressed to Catherine Blanchet
#6
A summary of a to-be published book Cajun Music: A Reflection of People by Ann Savoy; 2pages
“Effective Listening in a Classroom” class materials; 19 pages
21 pages; #7-27
D-BL3-009-006
Newspaper clipping of “Le Coin des Acadiens: Le parler des Acadiens des bayous louisianais” by Harris Periou
#28
Grade report for Music 360: Louisiana French Folk Music (USL)
2 pages; #29-30
D-BL3-009-008
Syllabus for Music 260: LA French Folk Music (USL); 4 copies
Overall summary of what was achieved by the class or learned
3 pages; #31-33
Article on “Thinking: A Neglected Art” by My Turn/Carolyn Kane
#34
D-BL3-009-010
To-do list for a Sunday and Monday
#35
A worksheet on “les nombres and coloraige;” a list of numbers and a color by number page
2 pages; #36-37
D-BL3-009-012
Lyrics for “Chansons pour L’Halloween;”
1.“C’est L’Halloween” is sung to either the tunes of “London Bridge,” “Sur, sous, dans,” “Tête épaule,” and “Frère Jacques;”
2.“Das une Maison” sung to the tune “Chevalier de la Table Ronde;”
3.”Halloween” sung to either the tunes of “Pâre Noël” or “Jingle Bells”
#38
Color by number sheet (Coloriage)
#39
D-BL3-009-014
Lyrics to “Chansons pour Halloween”
#40
Worksheet for Halloween; “Les parties du corps: le monster;” name body parts of a monster
3 pages; #41-43
D-BL3-009-016
Songs, lyrics and singers of songs from the Lomax recordings; 12 pages; # 44-56
1.J’ai vu Lucille; Elita, Mary, and Ella Hoffpauir; New Iberia June 1943
2. Tout un beau soir en me promenant; “ “
3.Les clefs de la prison; “ “
4.La Belle et le Capitaine; Julien Hoffpauir; New Ibera June 1934
5.Le Chanson de Théogène Dubois; Fenelus Sonnier; Erath June 30 1934
6.La Chanson des Savoy; Fenelon Brasseaux, Isaac and Cleveland Sonnier; Erath June 1934
7.Trinquons; “ “
8.J’I marié un ouvier; Lanese Vincent and Sidney Richard; Kaplan 1934
9.Madame Gallien; Sidney Richard and Lennis Vincent; Kaplan 1934
10.Viens donc t’assir sur la croix de ma tombe; Segura Brothers; White Oak June 1934
11.Bye-bye, bonsoir, mes parents; Paul Junius Malveaux and Ernest Lafitte; Jennings August 1934
12.Blues de la prison; Joseph Jones; Jennings August 1934
13.Là-bas chez Moreau; Cleveland Benoit and Darby Hicks; Jennings August 1, 1934
14.Dégo; Wilfred Charles; New Iberia June 1934
15.J’ai fait tout le tour du pays; Jimmy Peters and ring dance singers; Jennings (Lake Arthur) June 1934
16.Feel Like Joining His Army; Austin Coleman, Washington and Sampson Brown; Jennings June 1934
D-BL3-009-017
Sheet music and lyrics; 28 pages; #57-85
1. 22 La Violette; #57
2.31 Allons Danser Colinda; #58
3.13 L’Oranger; #59
4.Notes
5.Page numbers for music and chords
6.Misieu’ Préval; #62
7.Little David Play on Yo’ Harp; 4 copies; #63, 66, 72, 83
8.Gospel Train; 3 copies; #64-65,73
9.Don’t You Grieve After Me; 4 copies; # 67-69 and 84
10.No Devil in Our Lane; 3 copies; #70-71 and 81-82
11.Hebben Is A Shinin’; #74
12.Hard Trials; #75
13.I Feel Like Dying’ In Dis Army; # 76
14.I’m So Glad; #77
15.Dese Aller Ma Father’s Chillun; #78
16.Baptizin’, Little David, and Ain’t Dat Good News; #79
17.I’m Going Where Dere Ain’t No Mo’ Dyin’; #80
18.Cher Petit Papa; #85
Class notes, grades and materials used in Music 360 class
7 pages; #86-93
D-BL3-009-019
List of Creole Songs that were published in 5 books and gives pages numbers
2 pages; #94-95
Roll Project Topic notes
#96
D-BL3-009-021
Written Poems and lyrics
3 pages; #97-99
French songs used with High School students in a French Class at Meaux; 1967; lists 24 songs and either categorizes them by French or Louisiana French
#100
D-BL3-009-023
Notes taken July 18-22
#101
Formal Presentation written notes on Louisiana French Folk Song (July 22)
2 pages; #102-103
D-BL3-009-025
Class Notes; Thesis Notes; terms
6 pages; #104-110
Notes and outline for PIPS Louisiana French Music
3 pages; #111-114
D-BL3-009-027
Song list of songs presented on June 25-29 and July 2-3 with numbers corresponding with either the songs are in the thesis, Zing Zang Do or Danse Ronde
Convre outline from June 25-29 and July 2-11
6 pages; # 115-121
A Unity Prayer Service pamphlet from July 1985 Inkster, Michigan; features a song “ I am Free, I am Unlimited” and various prayers
2 pages; #122-124
D-BL3-009-029
Lesson and class notes by dates
11 pages; #125-137
List of quotes, names and dates
#138
D-BL3-009-031
Syllabus pages of paper topics and writing from Music 360 class
2 pages; #139-140
History of Acadiana lecture notes
#141
D-BL3-009-033
Notes on Louisiana French Folk Dances
2 pages; #142-143
Definitions of folklore terms from Webster 7th New Collegiate
12 pages; # 144-156
D-BL3-009-035
Grade test of Monday July 2
4 pages; #157-160
Singing call for a square dance for June 28, 1984
#161
D-BL3-009-037
Lyrics of unknown song from Inez Catalon; July 3, 1984 Folklore After Class
#162
“Petit Bonhomme” lyrics from Catherien and Anne Blanchet at a kindergarten, Lafayette Coop School; July 3, 1984
#163
D-BL3-009-039
Random notes
2 pages; #164-166
List of people for interviews; 10 names
1.Grandma
2.Inez Catalon
3.Loniel
4.voodoo work
5.Nola Broussard
6.Balfa
7.friend
8.Amy Dean Broussard
9.Sr. Edith
10. Dupery
#167
D-BL3-009-041
List of things borrowed
#168-169
Notes and phone numbers
#170
D-BL3-009-043
Possible topics for lectures on overall themes of Louisiana, French, Folk, and Music
4 pages; #171-174
Contact List and resource page
#175-176
D-BL3-009-045
List of roster with picked topics
2 pages; #176-179
Notes
#180-181
D-BL3-009-048
Take Home Test-Opera Book and notes
3 pages; #182-184
Same syllabus pages for Music 360 as -031
2 pages; #185-186
D-BL3-009-050
Press Release from the State of Louisiana Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, Office of Cultural Development; on Louisiana Traditional Music Featured on State Album Series
3 pages; #187-189
Notes in French
#190
D-BL3-009-052
Notes on Jerry Cormier, Bill Russel, Ozitta Catalon; phone numbers, when they meet
2 pages; #191-194
D-BL3-009-053
“Solomon Grundi” rhyme from Thomas Cornwell 1964
#195
Descarte quote (French)
#196
D-BL3-009-055
“Un Petit Bonhomme” with certain words translated at bottom
#197
Paper “Symbols, Worlds and Folklore” #198-201
Sheet music of “Trois Fois Lassera,” “Aveine,” and “Le Joli Rosier” #202
5 pages; #198-202
D-BL3-009-057
Scanned newspaper articles by Randy Whatleys
“Gospel Music in Cajun” June 27, 1992
“Du Chicot: The Game of ‘Pain Pi Peau’”
2 pages; #203-206
Cajun Parody of “Twas the Night Before Christmas”
#207
D-BL3-009-059
The Vermilion Chamber Orchestra Society program for April 30, 1983 at St. Mary Church
5 pages; #208-213
“Petit Bohomme” lyrics from Margret Brailey’s grandmother
#214
D-BL3-009-061
Book List of French and Louisiana music
#215
“3 Petits Cochons” sheet music; from Catherine Marie’s teacher at Lafayette Community Cooperator School
#217
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“T’jvai La Voir Un Tour” sheet music; from Mrs. Nole Broussard-LeRoy
2 pages; #217-218
“les lanciers-Quadrille” dance instructions; map drawn on back; #219-220
1.Les Tiroirs
2.Les Lignes
3.Les Moulinets
4.Les Visites
5.Les Lanciers
D-BL3-009-065
Excerpt from Petit Manuel d’histoire d’Acadie by d’Entremont, Daigle et als. Liibrarie Acadienne, U. de Monoton, 1976
#221
Notes on tape of “Chants de Noël du Canada Francais” by Helene Baillargeon and children’s choir; recorded in Canada
#222
D-BL3-009-067
Folkways Records Album FP-918, “Chansons d’Acadie” (Songs of French Canada) chantées par Hélène Baillargeon et Alan Mills; Canadian folk songs; Lyrics and notes info sheet by Alan Mills
9 pages; #223-231
Notes on Sancier book in LA Room
4 pages; #232-237
D-BL3-009-069
D.K Wilgus article excerpt on “Anglo-American Folksong Scholarship Since 1898.” New Brunswick: N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1959.
2 pages; #238-239
Notes on the Lomax recordings; Alln and Ruth Crawford Segar, Music editor, N.Y. Macmullan Co. 1941
2 pages; #240-241
D-BL3-009-071
Outline of a talk/speech for music in schools
2 pages; #242-245
D-BL3-009-072
Outline for talk/speech for dance lessons in schools
2 pages; #246-249
Cantiques de l’Anne Devote; Verona (?) Theriot, 1854
#250
D-BL3-009-074
Speech of “Symbols, Worlds, and Folklore” and why folklore should be in education; sheet music included; 5 pages; #250-255
1.Trois Fois Passera
2.Avenine
3.Les Joli Rosier
A Study of the Folk Traditions Among the Houmas Indians
Folder binder; 18 pages
Paper of “Folk Traditions Among the Houmas Indians” by Mark Buckmaster
1.Introduction; # 3 (page in PDF)
2.History; page 1-3; #4-6
3.Folk Medicine; page 4; #7
4.Slides and Narration; page 5-9; #8-12
5.Folk Tales with notes; page 10-13; #13-16
6. Bibliography; page 14; #17
Blanchet's Teaching Materials 2
Selections from Elizabeth Brandon's dissertation;
D-BL3-010-001
Cover page for "Moeurs et Langue de la Paroisse Vermilion en Louisiane"
D-BL3-010-002
"Propositions" page
D-BL3-010-003
Lessons on French sentence structure; pages 465-511
47 pages; #3-49 (page in PDF)
D-BL3-010-004
"Chapitre III: Langue Dans les Contes Pseudo-Creoles"; pages 512-538
27 pages; #50-77
D-BL3-010-005
"Conclusion"; pages 539-542
4 pages; #78-81
D-BL3-010-006
"Bibliographie"; pages 543-558
16 pages; #82-97
Blanchet's Teaching Materials 3
Selections from Elizabeth Brandon's dissertation;
D-BL3-011-001
"XI: Glossaire" pages 421-465
45 pages; #1-45 (page in PDF)
D-BL3-011-002
"XII Appendices: Appendice I - List de Informateurs" pages 466-470
5 pages; #46-50
D-BL3-011-003
"Appendice II - Classement des Types des Contes d'Apres l'Index de Aarne-Thompson Types of the Folk-Tales" pages 471-477
7 pages; #51-57
D-BL3-011-004
"Appendice III - Liste de Paralleles des Contes et des Chansons" pages 478-488
11 pages; #58-68
D-BL3-011-005
Unknown Index "IX" pages 503-506
5 pages; #69-73
Canadian Centre for Folk Culture Studies Annual Review 1973
Blue booklet
D-BL3-012-001
Canadian Centre for Folk Culture Studies Annual Review 1973 cover; Board of Trustees National Museums of Canada; Object of the Mercury Series; Table of Contents; photo
4 pages; #1-9 (page in PDF)
D-BL3-012-002
"Forward" by William E. Taylor, Director of National Museum of Man.; pages 1-2 (page in book)
2 pages; #10-11
D-BL3-012-003
"Introduction" by Carmen Roy, Chief of Canadian Centre for Folk Culture Studies; photo; pages 3-5
3 pages; #12-14
D-BL3-012-004
"The Research Programme of the CCFCS" by Géza de Rohan-Csermak; pages 6-8
3 pages; #15-17
D-BL3-012-005
"Anglo-Celtic Section" by Gordon W. MacLennan; photo; pages 9-12
4 pages; #18-21
D-BL3-012-006
"French-Romance Section" by André-Richard Gauthier; pages 13-15
3 pages; #22-24
D-BL3-012-007
"German-Scandinavian Section" by Magnus Einarsson; photo; pages 16-18
2 pages; #25-27
D-BL3-012-008
"Slavic and East European Section" by Robert B. Klymasz; photo; pages 19-22
4 pages; #28-31
D-BL3-012-009
"Balkan and Baltic Research Programme" by Philip V. R. Tilney; pages 23-25
3 pages; #32-34
D-BL3-012-010
"Ethnomusicology Section" by Roxane C. Carlisle; photo; pages 26-31
6 pages; #35-41
D-BL3-012-011
"Custodial Services" by E.G. Finley; pages 32-33
2 pages; #42-43
D-BL3-012-012
"Artifact Accessions by Ethnic Group" page 34
D-BL3-012-013
"Archive Acquisitions" page 35
D-BL3-012-014
"Bibliography of Works Finished or Published by the CCFCS Staff in 1973; pages 36-38
3 pages; #46-48
D-BL3-012-015
"Conferences Attended In 1973" pages 39-40
2 pages; #49-50
D-BL3-012-016
"List of CCFCS Staff Research In 1973" page 41
D-BL3-012-017
"Geographical Map of CCFCS Staff Research Areas in 1973" page 42
D-BL3-012-018
"List of CCFCS Contractee Research in 1973" page 43
D-BL3-012-019
"Geographical Map of CCFCS Staff Contractee Research Areas in 1973" page 44
Magnus 12-16 Chord Organ Music Book: Music Selections
D-BL3-013
Magnus 12-16 Chord Organ Music Book: Music Selections
Varsouvianna and Mazurka Dance Directions
D-BL3-014-001
Varsouvianna Dance Directions
D-BL3-014-002
Mazurka Dance Directions
Les Danses Rondes - English Translations
D-BL3-015
English translations to songs from "Les Danses Rondes"; 3 copies
2 pages; #1-2 (page in PDF)
Les Danses Rondes: Louisiana French Folk Dances
Book collected, arranged and edited by Catherine Blanchet and Marie del Norte Thériot; Southwest Louisiana French Folk Series; R.E. Blanchet, Distributor; Abbeville, Louisiana; red/white cover and blue/white cover versions;
D-BL3-016-001
"Les Danses Rondes: Louisiana French Folk Dances" red and white cover; book of sheet music and lyrics;
Contents:
La Violette
Le Joli Rosier
Le Pommier Doux
Les Lauriers Sont Coupés
Papillon
Raisin, Raisin
Les Oeufs
Sur le Bord de la Rivière
Là-Bas, Là-Haut Sur Cette Montagne
Allons Au Bois
Le Petit Bois
Ah, Mon Beau Château
La Sainte Catherine
Aveine
Fli-Fla-Flon
La Petite Boiteuse
Le Tour du Rosier
Chaise, Chaise, Chaise
Shoo-Fly
About the Songs
About the Dance Directions
34 pages; #1-36
D-BL3-016-001
"Les Danses Rondes: Louisiana French Folk Dances" blue and white cover; book of sheet music and lyrics; 9 copies
Contents:
La Violette
Le Joli Rosier
Le Pommier Doux
Les Lauriers Sont Coupés
Papillon
Raisin, Raisin
Les Oeufs
Sur le Bord de la Rivière
Là-Bas, Là-Haut Sur Cette Montagne
Allons Au Bois
Le Petit Bois
Ah, Mon Beau Château
La Sainte Catherine
Aveine
Fli-Fla-Flon
La Petite Boiteuse
Le Tour du Rosier
Chaise, Chaise, Chaise
Shoo-Fly
About the Songs
About the Dance Directions
32 pages; #37-70
La Petite Poule Caille: Berceuse Louisianaise
Book by Catherine Brookshire Blanchet with illustrations by Marilyn Melançon Trahan; The Blanchet School, Abbeville, LA 1979
D-BL3-017
"La Petite Poule Caille: Berceuse Louisianaise" book; 5 copies
24 pages; #1-30
"Jean Sot - Conte Louisianaise" Play
All papers in blue, clear folder;
D-BL3-018-001
Drawing of house; black ink on blue paper
D-BL3-018-002
"Jean Sot - Conte Louisianaise" cast sheet
D-BL3-018-003
Correspondence between Catherine Blanchet and Dr. Philip; questions about script translation; April 20, 1976 and April 21, 1976(?)
2 pages; #4-5 (page in PDF)
D-BL3-018-004
"Jean Sot" background and press release by Catherine Blanchet; 2 copies
D-BL3-018-005
Handwritten notes about props and costumes
D-BL3-018-006
Edited version of "Jean Sot" script with corrections by Catherine Blanchet; 2 copies/versions
4 pages; #8-17
D-BL3-018-007
"Jean Sot" script; typed
4 pages; #18-21
D-BL3-018-008
"Jean Sot" script; handwritten
2 pages; #22-23
D-BL3-018-009
Written purpose for creating the play; January 24, 1977 at 4:30 pm; some of the Acadian lore dates back prior to 1604
Blanchet's Thesis: Louisiana French Folk Song Among Children In Vermilion Parish 1942-54 1
Hardcover book copy with black cover;
D-BL4-001-001
Note about thesis with zerox page numbers
#1-2 (page in PDF)
D-BL4-001-002
Catherine Blanchet's thesis: Louisiana French Folk Song Among Children In Vermilion Parish 1942-54; "Presented to the Graduate Faculty of the University of Southwestern Louisiana in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree Master of Music...January 1970"
Cover pages and acknowledgments
3 pages; #4-6
Table of contents
3 pages; #7-9
Chapter I: Introduction
9 pages; #10-18
Chapter II: The Songs
132 pages; #19-150
Chapter III: Observations On The Music
13 pages; #151-163
Chapter IV: Traditional Acadian Singing
8 pages; #164-171
Chapter V: Acadian Instrumental Music
8 pages; #172-179
Chapter VI: A Survey Of French Folk Music Study In Louisiana
15 pages; #180-194
Chapter VII: Conclusions
6 pages; #195-200
Appendix A: History Of The Collection On Which This Thesis Was Based
11 pages; #201-211
Appendix B: Index Of Sources
9 pages; #212-220
Appendix C: Index Of Titles And First Lines
3 pages; #221-223
Vita and Abstract
2 pages; #224-225
Total: 221 pages; #3-227
Blanchet's Thesis 2: Louisiana French Folk Song Among Children in Vermilion Parish, 1942-54 2
Red Thesis book; 26 scanned pages; differences between other printed thesis, mostly loose papers stuffed inside the book
****Refer to D-BL4-001 for complete scan of thesis****
D-BL4-002-001
A note of Emily Simon with address and phone number; found on page 91 in book
D-BL4-002-002
Notecards of blank sheet music bars; found on page 136 in book
D-BL4-002-003
Notes on Joseph Hickerson in Library of Congress, folklorist and the National Museum of Canada in “Archives de Folklore;” found on page 171 in book
2 pages; #3-4 (page in PDF)
**stuffed in back of book**
D-BL4-002-004
Notes on Vietnamese sentence structures
D-BL4-002-005
Letter to Catherine Blanchet from Alan Jabbour; April 15, 1970; reply letter on duplication projects in the Archive of Folk Songs in the Library of Congress
D-BL4-002-006
Letter to Catherine Blanchet from the National Museums of Canada (Musées Nationaux du Canada); June 1970; envelope and information on their archives
5 pages; #7-11
D-BL4-002-007
Blank form of Order of Duplication Services from the Library of Congress and a schedule of chargers for said services
2 pages; #12-13
D-BL4-002-008
Letter to Catherine Blanchet from Elizabeth Brandon; June 2 1970; setting up meetings with other people, and contact people for Blanchet’s thesis and envelope
5 pages; #14-22
D-BL4-002-009
Letter to Catherine Blanchet from Alan Jabbour; Dec. 5, 1969; listing of Louisiana folk music collections in the Library of Congress
2 pages; #23-24
D-BL4-002-010
Newspaper clipping of “Who Says Cajun Is Bad French? Some Think it Deserves Respect”
Program for the New France Tour by the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Council for the Traditional Arts
D-BL5-001
Program/brochure for the New France Tour by the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Council for the Traditional Arts
8 pages; #1-8
Crutchfield's Live Oak Gallery Pre-Showing Open House Invite and Program
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Crutchfield's Live Oak Gallery Pre-Showing Open House Invite and Program
7 pages; #1-8
Blanchet Miscellaneous 1
Blue Horse brand notebook with photo of horse on it;
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Notes on tape #1; tape of Simeon Touchet discs; 7 and a half ipm; recorded by Harry Oster from 1946-47 records; list of 10 songs
D-BL5-003-002
Outline and notes for a workshop
3 pages; #3-5 (page in PDF)
D-BL5-003-003
Note: " LA - Sec. of State, Wade O. Martin"
D-BL5-003-004
Notes on tape #16; Mrs. Kerkseick, 1969 - Irish songs from her father's father; Mrs. Milton Nunez, 7/26/1969 - 3 songs singing/accordion/harmonica
D-BL5-003-005
Notes of hymn numbers in unknown hymnal; doodle/numbers on other side
#8-9
D-BL5-003-006
Note: "Ask about: T'en a eu, t'en aura p'us, Allons Danser Colinda, Compagnions de la Maryolaine(?), Saute Crapaud"
Blanchet Miscellaneous 2
3 papers;
D-BL5-004-001
"A Cajun Toast" poem by Bob Hamm, 1973
D-BL5-004-002
"Mariez-moi, Ma Petite Maman" lyrics
D-BL5-004-003
"Elaine K. Flannery presents in recital Nancy Sullivan, violinist, assisted by Suzanna Stennett, pianist...Sunday, July 27, 1969; Baptist Student Union, USL Campus"
Directions for Editing Music in a Program
D-BL5-005
Directions for editing music in a program
3 pages; #1-3 (page in PDF)
Blanchet - Copied Pages from Unknown Source
D-BL5-006
Copied pages from unknown book/source in French; page numbers 489-494
6 pages; #1-6 (page in PDF)
Blanchet - Copied Pages from Unknown Source
D-BL5-006
Copied pages from unknown book/source in French; page numbers 489-494
6 pages; #1-6 (page in PDF)
Louisiana Folk Foundation Envelopes and Letter Heads
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Louisiana Folk Foundation envelopes; blank; 30 copies
D-BL5-007-001
Louisiana Folk Foundation Letter Heads; blank; 40 copies;
List of Board of Trustees: Paul Tate - President, Dr. Patricia K. Rickels - Vice President, Catherine Blanchet - Secretary, Edward Blanchet - Treasurer, Dr. Milton Rickels, Richard Wagner, Wade O. Martin Jr., Roy Theriot;
List of Advisory Commitee: Mrs. C. E. Hamilton, Hosea Phillips, Floyd Cormier, Mary Alice Fontenot, Annabelle Hoffman Krewitz, Harry Oster Ph.D., Elizabeth Brandon Ph.D., Ralph C. Rinzler, Dean Tom Arceneaux, George Brown, Edith Dupre, Irene Whitefield Holmes, Jeanne Castille, Revon J. Reed, George Reincke, Dick Allen, Leslie Burris, Mary Alice Cox, Harriet Sento, Gladys Calhoun Case, Larry Vidrine, Gene Griffen, Robert Gilmore, Jeanne Gilmore, Marie Del Norte Theriot Hains
Acadian Newport Folk Foundation Staff Photos
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Louisiana Yambilee Newport Folk Foundation supper, at Roy Theriot home Abbeville, LA 1964;
(From left standing) Flyod Chormier, Dr. Hosea Philippe, Paul Tate, and Kenneth Deshotel; (from left sitting) Mrs. Deshotel and Mrs. Wallett;
A 4x5 ½ black and white photo
D-BL5-008-002
Newport Folk Foundation supper for Louisiana Yambilee, Abbeville, LA 1964;
(From left) Charlie Thompson, Roy Theriot, Mrs. Thompson and W. A. Walcott;
A 3x4 (58%) black and white photo
D-BL5-008-003
Acadian Newport Folk Foundation supper for Louisiana Yambilee, Abbeville, LA 1964;
(from left sitting) Mrs. Richard Wagner, Dr. Milton Rickels; (from left standing) Richard Wagner, Dr. Patricia Rickels and Elsie Jane Wallett;
A black and white photo
D-BL5-008-004
Acadian Newport Folk Foundation supper for Louisiana Yambilee, Abbeville, La 1964;
(from left) Dr. Hosea Phillips, Mr. and Mrs. Blanchet;
A 5x4 (54%) black and white photo
Blanchet's Architecture Research
In folder that’s labeled “Architecture;” 49 pages
D-BL5-010-001
Paper on “Cultural Syncretism in the Louisiana Creole Cottage” by Jay Edwards at Louisiana State University; 43 pages’ #2-44
1.Introduction; pages 1-4
2.Syncretism in Architecture; pages 4-6
3.The Louisiana Creole Cottage; pages 6-11
4. Origins; pages 11-13
5.haitian Creole Houses; pages 13-15
6.West African Contributions; pages 15-18
7.Conculsion; pages 18-25
8.References; pages 26-32
9.Titles and Captions; pages 33-43
D-BL5-010-002
Article on “Space-Filling, Closed-Packing Systems” by J. F. Gabriel; from the Syacuse (?) University School of Architecture; only pages 3-5
4 pages total; #45-48
A Child's Louisiana: Create & Color Coloring Book
Coloring book about “the diversity of Louisiana’s lands and peoples and does it with humor and social concern”; 42 pages
“A Child’s Louisiana: Create & Color” (La Louisiane Vue Par un Enfant);
By Kathleen Bordelon Duplantier and Norman Marmillion; Illustrated by Norman Marmillion
The Pretzel Press: New Orleans, 1980, 37 pages
C is for Cajun: English-French Coloring Book
Conversational Cajun French 1; Cajun French Lesson Book
A lesson book on Cajun French in conversations, book 1; 41 pages
By Randall P. Whatley and Harry Jannise; published by the Chicot Press
Table of Contents (using page # in PDF, not book)
1.Introduction; #8-14
2.A Word from the Authors; #15
3.Days of the Week and Months of the Year;#16
4.Holidays; #16
5.Numbers; #17-19; Cardinal numbers, Ordinal numbers, Fractions, Telling Time, Making change, Weights and Measurements
6.Parts of the Body; #19-20; External and Internal
7.Clothing; #20-21
8.Colors; #21
9.The House; #21-23; The living room, The kitchen, Bedroom, The bathroom, The outside
10.Food; #23-24
11.Animals; #24-26
12.Fruits, Vegetables, and Crops; #27
13.Tools, Machinery, and Building Materials; #27
14.Plants; #28-29
15.Trees; #29
16.Useful Expressions; #29-39
17.Old Cajun Names; #39-40; Men and Women
Blanchet's Miscellaneous Materials 3
Brown packing envelope with various notes on them; 18 pages
D-BL5-014-001
**not scanned yet**
D-BL5-014-002
Article on Acadian marriage customs in the Attakapas country
2 pages; #3-4 (page in PDF)
D-BL5-014-003
Written draft of an article on wedding feasts
5 pages; #5-11
D-BL5-014-004
Letter to Elizabeth or Keith from Catherine Blanchet; March 7, 1977; trying to set a time and date to meet to give information on plan certain plans made
#12
D-BL5-014-005
List for Madewood Arts Festival’ 77 from Madewood Arts Foundation in New Orleans
D-BL5-014-006
Notes
2 pages; #14-15
D-BL5-014-007
Attakapas Gazette Vol. III, No. 3 September 1968; wrote a table of contents
D-BL5-014-008
Attakpas Gazette Vol. III, No. 4 December 1968; wrote a table of contents and marked page with Blanchet Baptism records
2 pages; #17-18
The Blanchet School Stationary Paper
Interview with Griff Lee; Alvin Dyson
Don Davis is interviewing Griff Lee and an unidentified woman (Lee's wife?);
00:00:05 - Cattle industry;
00:02:00 - Davis is reading a document about Cameron Parish; Grand Chenier; Treasure legend of Jean Lafitte; Pecan Island; Money Island;
00:04:05 - The Philips were the first white family in Grand Chenier; Hurricane in 1824; They all drowned; Indian man warned the family about the weather, but they didn't listen;
00:05:05 - First settlers in Grand Chenier from the eastern states: McCaul, Armstrong, Smith, Lindstrom, Harris, Carter, Weatherhill, Root, Haul, Hall, Sweeney, Barnson, Tanner, Graves, Broussard, Miller, Durr, Doxy, Stanford, McDonald, Weatherford; Later French settlers: Audoin, Dupuis, Dyson, Meyer, Landry, Trahan, Boudreaux, Monty;
00:06:15 - Building materials were unavailable, so lumber was imported on the river; Cattle industry; Hurricane Audrey;
Another interview starts; Interview with Alvin Dyson on October 23rd at his home in Cameron, Louisiana;
00:07:33 - Introduction;
00:08:15 - Johnsons Bayou; Cattle ranchers; Cotton farmers; Trappers;
00:10:00 - Alvin's paternal great-grandfather, Thom Dyson, moved to Chenier au Tigre after the Civil War; He had 13 children and trapped and hunted alligators;
00:11:00 - He was born in Pecan Island; Moved to Cameron Parish after the trapping season of 1929;
00:13:20 - Oil companies started digging canals and it changed the habitat and marshes; 1932 survey of the land;
00:15:15 - Trapping business; In 1936, they leased some land to the oil companies; Trapping mink in ditches;
00:18:20 - Nutria introduced by McIlhenny then they migrated west and became primary animal; Mink, racoons, muskrats;
00:19:35 - Oil companies dredge bigger canals; Drainage systems; 15 million muskrats per year produced in Louisiana, which was more than anywhere else in the USA; Trapping industry declined due to the environmental impact of the oil industry;
00:22:40 - Miami Corporations boundaries; Vermilion Parish; Sweet Lake, Blind Lake; Discuss canals around Calcasieu Lake; Chocolate Canal;
00:25:00 - Canals built by Sweet Lake Land Company approximately between 1910 and 1920; Land reclamation; Commissary Point;
00:27:22 - Land west of Calcasieu Lake belonged to the Orange Cameron Land Company; Canals in that area; Levees;
00:30:20 - Minkem Sr. owns oil rights; Many of the canals west of Calcasieu Lake were primarily built to improve trapping; Magnolia Vacuum Canal; West Cove Canal; Stark;
00:33:20 - Trapping ditches; pirogues; Mud boats;
00:36:50 - Camps in the marsh; Little Chenier, Grand Chenier, Creole; Cost $50 a day to build a pirogue ditch (about 8 miles a day); Today it costs $300-$400 a day;
00:39:00 - South of Sweet Lake; Duck hunting; Nutria took out saltgrass;
00:41:55 - Hunting lease used to cost $50/section, now $200/section; Hog Bayou and Grand Lake; Millers Canal; Club Canal; Crab Lake;
00:45:50 - The Cranes dredged the canal as a right-of-way in the 1930s; Dr. Miller built some canals to improve cattle grazing; Eugene Miller;
00:48:55 - Chain of ridges from the end of Grand Chenier to Pecan Island; Little Chenier Canal; Mermentau Mineral Lane; Chenier Perdu ridge;
00:52:00 - Creole Canal; Cotton gin in Creole and two or three cotton gins in Grand Chenier; Eugene Miller owned a lot of cattle; Mr. Wakefield, Mr. Davis, Mr. Henry;
00:54:00 - Most people settled after the Civil War; Lot of English people married French people; People primarily raised cotton, but people with more land raised cattle; People harvested sugar cane for personal use; Blue ribbon cane;
Another interview – Henry St. Pierre;
00:57:30 - Cypress; Squirrels; 13 families lived in the swamp near Blind River; Bayou Manchac;
Back to interview with Alvin Dyson;
01:00:30 - Not much rice farming in the area; Crane brothers; Lists oil companies;
01:04:00 - Cameron Orange Land Company; Camps west of Holly Beach; Using dynamite to make canals;
01:08:00 - Blackfish Lake; first inter-coastal canal joined multiple lakes; Canals; Mosquitos;
01:13:00 - Mosquito control commission; Insecticides; He served four years on the Gulf States Marine Fisheries Commission;
01:17:40 - Trapping between Calcasieu Lake and Sabine; People would burn the marsh to hunt alligators; The Steinbergs; Stories about his time in the trapping business;
01:29:15 - Davis asks about a rundown building down the road; Monkey Island;
Back to interview with Henry St. Pierre;
01:33:30 - Cooking chicken;
01:35:00 - Born in Grand Point; He's been to California twice;
01:37:00 - Sugar cane; He raised tobacco; Talks about his siblings;
01:44:15 - Difference between a bayou and a slew; Davis asks about a place on the river called the Red Church; Pierre Part;
Interview with Don Gary
Don Davis and Don Gary (?)
00:00:10 - Directions for a place in St. Tammany Parish (sounds like they are driving?);
00:06:42 - May 21, 1976; Don Gary from Slidell; Automobile mileage 41,564;
00:07:15 - Talked to people at Reading Real Estate (3705 Pontchartrain Dr., Slidell); Most of the residents are from New Orleans; Bayou Liberty and Bayou Lacompte;
00:08:20 - Man from Northshore said a camp would cost about $40,000; Property descriptions; Talked with Mr. Foster and Mr. Henry about camps in the marsh; Salt Point;
00:12:40 - Roger Vincent and Miami Land Company; Listing different people who they talked to about camps; Russell Gary;
00:17:00 - Hunting is popular recreational activity; Photos of Holly Beach after the 1957 hurricane; Increase in costs of land and camps;
00:21:40 - Area near Grand Lake is popular for crabbing; Isaac White from Hackberry said that camps were used by trappers;
Interview with Mr. Theriot; Levy Charpentier
Interview with Mr. Theriot;
00:00:08 - Natural medicine; Gall bladder, kidney remedies;
00:01:26 - Davis asks how Leeville got its name, but he doesn't know; Smuggling alcohol during prohibition; Talk about the Chinese population in the area;
00:04:00 - The houses were built with planks and most of the wood came from Valentine; Describes how they built houses;
00:06:00 - He says if he had a good education, he would have written a big book; He's almost 72 years old;
00:07:40 - Camps in the marsh; The boats were big enough to have a cabin on the boat;
00:08:50 - Building canals; They didn't have machines to do the work for them like today; They only had a sailboat; Push pull boat;
Interview with Levy Charpentier (Levi?); Tuesday, June 12, 1973 at his home in Cutoff; Dean Charpentier, student at Nichols, acting as translator; It sounds like his wife might be there too;
00:12:25 - Introduction; Davis starts by saying he wants Charpentier to talk about the old times; He was born in ? (can't understand); He got married in 1923 and in 1925 he bought his place in Cutoff; Raised his family here;
00:14:00 - His father was a farmer and a carpenter; He farmed corn, potatoes, and raised honey bees; Sold the wax for $0.25 per pound; His dad delivered it by boat to New Orleans; He would go to New Orleans too; The boat had a motor, but he remembers having a boat without a motor;
00:16:30 - After 1905, they had no fresh water; He was 6 years old in 1905; Levees;
00:17:45 - His father had 1 and 1/3 arpent of land to farm; Cutoff; Names of families in the area: Guidry, Autin, Chouest; Milton Chouest from Golden Meadow;
00:19:10 - Trapping and fishing; They would trap in the winter; Him and his brother Oliver (who passed away) would get oysters;
00:20:55 - He never went to New Orleans on a push pull boat; His father was born and grew up around Cutoff; Felicite Island on the west side of Bayou Lafourche; Bayou Terrebonne; Bayou Cane; His father married Joe Chouest's daughter;
00:22:45 - His mother told him there were about ten houses on Felicite Island; People lived in Leeville, Chenière Caminada; Hurricane in 1893 wiped out Chenière Caminada; 1,800 people drowned; People were living in Grand Isle, Felicite Island, Esquine (?) was above Felicite Island; His grandmother was a Plaisance; Bayou Fala;
00:26:15 - Duck hunting camp; Sold ducks in New Orleans; Using bird feathers (plumes);
00:27:15 - Work cycle; They would trap from December to February; May to October they would fish (?); November they would prepare for trapping season; They trapped, fished, and raised crops;
00:28:40 - They leased land to trap;
00:30:05 - Lumber to build their houses; They would cut wood in the summer to use in the winter; Wood stove (no gas); French oven in the yard; Bousillage, bousiller; They used to build houses with bousillage before they started using wood;
00:33:10 - No one lived in house boats during that time; They would take there oysters out at Timbalier Island; Manila Village; There was a platform there to dry the shrimp;
00:34:15 - Senator Joe Fischer had a platform; 40 to 50 people at Basa Basa (?); They had a store; Chinese, Sabine, Filipino people living there;
00:35:50 - Platforms at Manila Village, Basa Basa, Grand Bayou, Bayou Collas (?), Camp Dewey; People lived year round at the platform;
00:36:40 - They would get lumber in Houma to boil the shrimp;
00:36:55 - He would bring oysters from Brush Island (La Brosse Island) to Houma on Bayou Terrebonne and Lake Barre; Man named Boyne who was born on Brush Island;
00:39:15 - Cemeteries on Bayou Louis (L'Ourse?) for people who lived on these islands; Kings Ridge; Jesse Bourg;
00:41:40 - Building his home; Bousiller before timber; Building boats; His dad built boats; The house he grew up in was built by his father with pegs and no nails; Notches;
00:45:30 - It would take about 2 to 4 years to build a house;
00:46:14 - They would put a sail on the boats; Levy and Dean speaking in french; Talking about sails;
00:48:18 - Trapping; They started with 250 traps; Bayou Pierrot (Perot/Pero); 450 traps; His wife and family would go with him during trapping season; They would go stay at a camp; They would build a camp every place they would trap; Put planks in the boat; Bayou Zin Zin (?);
00:51:00 - They trapped for 8 years in Bayou Zin Zin; Fished in Timbalier; Shrimping;
00:52:50 - When he was a kid, he worked in the fields for $.10 per day; They built their own platform; Boil and dry the shrimp;
00:54:05 - No one would deliver wood to the platform, they had to bring it themselves; His 50th wedding anniversary is coming up;
00:55:05 - Changes in the marsh overtime; Storms wiping out land; Timbalier used to be a big island; Groceries while trapping;
00:56:25 - Working with oysters; Tong oysters; Put them back in the water and tong them again; They would sell them for $0.35 to $0.40 a sack; They couldn't sell raw oysters at the that time;
Interview with Levy Charpentier II
Continued interview with Levy Charpentier; Dean Charpentier, student at Nicholls, serves as translator;
00:00:10 - Bootleg whiskey;
00:02:10 - Talks about how to build a traînasse; Small dams; Golden Meadow; Traînasse de Bayou Rainbow; Yankee Canal;
00:06:15 - Cote Blanche; They didn't finish one of the canals because they ran out of money (they can't remember the name of the canal); It's closed now;
00:08:30 - Carmondale (?); He knew the Dufrene family that lived there; Near Lake Salvador, Little Lake;
***Show Chris***00:09:20 - He played the violin/fiddle; They had to use smoke to get rid of the mosquitoes so they could play; He played for several years; Joe Perrin in Golden Meadow; Alfred Collin and Guidry (?); They used to have dances in the yard; He would bring his violin with him; He played in Grand Isle and Fourchon; They would work early and stop in the late afternoon then have a dance;
00:12:20 - Timbalier; Traînasses grew into bayous; Felicite Island; Once they dammed the bayou, no fresh water came in so the ridges and waterways got smaller;
00:13:50 - His father and grandfather were born and raised in that area; His great-great grandfather moved straight from France to Cutoff;
0014:50 - Community members; They had a judge; They used to not have official trapping seasons; They had Dr. Dominic Adams in Larose; Folk medicine; He is a treater; Herbs and leaves; His maternal grandfather, Joe Chouest, was the best treater;
00:18:00 - They would boil leaves for tea; Dr. Segue; Used to go by boat to church; Mules;
00:21:40 - His father built boats; 13-14 hour work days; They had cypress in the back; Cyprière is what they call cypress and sunken cypress;
00:23:15 - His father's boats were 32 to 40 feet long; Sternwheel boat; They had a big wheel in the back; 45 to 50 feet long; Steamboat;
***00:26:25 - Canal from Lockport to Houma; It was real narrow;
***00:27:10 - His great-great-great grandparents came from France; All of the towns around there are at least 150 years old;
00:28:18 - The last year his father grew rice was in 1904; They put up a dam in 1905 that stopped the fresh water; They would flood the rice in the fields; Didn't grow sugar until a long time after they stopped growing rice;
00:30:30 - They killed rabbits with sticks on Felicite Island; They didn't work on Sundays, so they would go hunt rabbits without guns;
***00:31:20 - Jean Lafitte's gold; They had some hogs that were digging and found a box with gold; This is his maternal grandmother's story; Bought land near Galliano with the money;
00:33:45 - Lesquine (?); About four families that lived there; His uncle lived there for a few years; Not a lot of people living in Fala; Periac (?);
00:35:35 - Cemetery at Bayou Zin Zin (?); Grand Bayou;
00:37:20 - Roussell; Billeaud; Bayou de Pointe-aux-Chenes; The Naquins; They were fishers and trappers; They would trade instead of buying things;
Different interview? Sounds like two interviews playing at the same time or background conversation***;
00:40:10 - Muskrats; Trapping in St. Bernard; 1926; Canals;
00:44:20 - Harvey Canal to get to New Orleans; Westwego; Fishermen built the canals; Westwego and Larose were the most important canals for fishermen in the old days;
00:46:20 - His father made a living on oysters and shrimp;
00:47:11 - His first digging machine costs $3,000 to build canals; This was about 30 years ago; Trappers built their ditches by hand;
00:49:00 - Scully Canal and Yankee Canal; Bayou Money (?);
00:52:50 - Wilkinson's Canal; Leeville Canal; There are two Little Lakes; Kings Canal;
00:56:00 - Golden Meadow farms was a plantation; Trapping isn't as good anymore; They used to go catch crawfish on the other side because of the fresh water;
00:58:35 - Chitimacha Indians; Squatters rights with canals and traînasse;
Interview with Daize Cheramie
00:00:30 - Intro: Interview with Daize Cheramie at his home in Cut Off, LA on June 12th; Mr. Cheramie is 84; His daughter is there translating;
00:00:52 - Thomas Weisman owned a small piece of land on Little Temple; Bo Berrett;
00:03:20 - Chinese workers; There were 15 houses at Little Temple on one side; 10 houses on the other; Little Temple is bound on one side by Bayou Rigolet and the other side is Bayou Pierrot;
00:05:50 - They own one part of Little Temple; There are two churches: one for Little Temple and one for Clark's Chenier;
00:07:00 - More than 100 people lived at Clark's Chenier; Catching shrimp waist deep in the water with a net;
00:07:45 - Bayou Cutler; Bassa Bassa; Manila Village; Bayou Collas (?); Grand Lake;
00:10:30 - The men that worked there had their families with them; No school at that time, but a Catholic Church; The priest would visit both churches every Sunday by sailboat;
00:11:55 - People moved after the storm, so he built a platform where the old church was; Their cemetery was in Grand Chenier; Grand Bayou;
00:14:00 - People got lumber from Harvey by sailboat; They didn't have a garden, but Thomas Weisman had one;
00:15:15 - Her dad had a few grocery stores; Only one grocery store;
00:16:10 - These villages in 1909 were around 80 years old; Old houses from Little Temple;
**Chris***00:18:30 - Little Temple had a store, houses, a church, a club, and a platform; They had dances on the platform; Men would play fiddle, harmonica, and guitar;
00:19:10 - Bousillage; Lulu Cheramie; 5 houses in Golden Meadow in 1914;
00:20:45 - Some people lived in houseboats, called flatboats; La cordelle; Bartering; He would go to Golden Meadow to sell oysters;
00:24:15 - Selling oysters; He used to sail to New Orleans;
00:25:55 - Logging for cypress; They used to sleep on corn husk mattresses; Gun powder;
Different interview;
00:29:00 - People moved in to trap; Workers came from the Philippines and France and started building camps; They displaced some of the Spanish settlers who were descendants from the Canary Islands; They started trapping;
00:30:00 - He wants to have a panel to discuss these things; A lot of records were lost in the fire of 1915; He's been looking at records in different courthouses; Burning camps down; Sheriff in Plaquemine was killed;
00:31:45 - Around 1945-1946 people had to start paying for the rights to trap; Fresh river water flooded the marshes which led to grass growing more; Oil companies ran pipelines all over the area;
00:33:00 - Salt water intrusion and storms/hurricanes wiped out most of the muskrat population; No trapping anymore; In the 1940s, they had ditch diggers; Leboeuf's Cut; Shell Beach;
Back to interview with Mr. Cheramie and his daughters;
00:34:17 - He was orphaned at the age of 8; He was born in Chenier and his father was born in Lafourche Parish; Corn husk beds, cypress houses about 3 feet above ground; Palmetto roofs or shingle roofs;
00:36:23 - People building houses at Little Temple;
00:37:55 - Work throughout the year; He would fish for 8 months and trap for 4 months; He would dig trainasses; Her sister arrives;
00:39:20 - The workers would boil the shrimp at night; He would get wood with Joe for the boilers;
00:41:00 - Trapping; They could trap anywhere (before leases); He would go to Fourchon; Periat/Periac?;
00:42:10 - Story about his brother breaking his arm; Medicine; Remedies using salt meat;
00:44:30 - He was a teenager before he ever had shoes; He dad worked in Timbalier; People lived on islands around there; There was one store; There were larger pieces of land in the bay, but the land is gone now; Hammock Bayou;
00:47:10 - Grand Bayou goes into Fala; Four houses on the east side of Grand Bayou and 2 houses on the west; Lesquine (?); Little Felicite;
00:49:15 - Pointe-aux-Chenes; Isle de Jean Charles; Calumet; Farming;
00:52:25 - People started moving to higher ground after storms wiped out many of the villages; Some people would live on a flatboat seasonally; Story;
00:55:40 - Baby pelicans; Hunting egrets for plumes; Bootlegging;
00:58:00 - Chinese workers; Mapion family; Eating raw shrimp;
00:59:35 - Bassa Bassa; Dancing; Cheniere Caminada; Story about the 1893 hurricane; Davis reads the story about the hurricane;
Interview with Victor Theriot
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Interview with Mr. & Mrs. Chouest
00:00:10 - Interview with Milton (?) Chouest; Wednesday, June 13th at their home in Golden Meadow;
00:00:30 - In 1917 she helped start the first school in the area; At 17 years old, Mrs. Chouest taught 1st-3rd grade (125 children); Mr. Scott was the principal; He taught 4th-7th grade all together (35 children); Half of the students came in the morning and half in the afternoon;
00:01:33 - She didn't speak local French; She took some classes in college; Her students didn't speak English; Some were older than her;
00:02:30 - The war broke out and Mr. Scott had to leave, so she became principal and taught 4th-7th grade;
00:02:50 - The children would peel shrimp at the factory instead of going to school; They helped change the laws so children couldn't work at the factory;
00:03:50 - The families in the area were more interested in educating the boys and not the girls; She built the school up; At first, children came from Golden Meadow and Leeville (later from Grand Isle); She coached the boys basketball team for years;
00:04:50 - Their house was brand new; The school only had four rooms, so they wanted to buy the land where their new house was; So they agreed to sell the land if they school moved their house to a new piece of property;
00:06:20 - She started the church; Catholic; She went with Ernest Falgout and his father to the archbishop and asked for a priest; The school children loved her and listened to her;
00:07:00 - Jim Perrin's dance hall (no longer there); They used to dance until 2 or 3 in the morning; Her and the kids would wake up early, scrub down the dance hall, and set up an alter; The priest would travel by boat from New Orleans; They knelt on the floor; She raffled all of her wedding gifts in order to buy an organ and start the church;
00:07:50 - She helped with the choir for 16 years; She would teach the songs to kids after school; She said she could get anything done with the help of the schoolchildren and their parents; The priest was named Father Bell (he passed away);
00:08:30 - Davis asks if their was a school on Grand Isle, but they don't think so;
00:09:05 - Some of the students commuted from Leeville and Golden Meadow; Much later, students came from Grand Isle and Cheniere Caminada; The school got too big; She told the superintendent that she would teach 9th grade at the elementary school salary to keep her boys from going to Cut Off for high school; She taught everything but science because they had no lab;
00:11:00 - The fathers caught shrimp, oysters, and trapping; The would bring the shrimp to be processed; Camps in the marsh made of palmetto; Flatboats; Families would go into the marsh in the winter; Trapping season was about 3 months;
00:13:05 - At first, the school only allowed white children; Once they got the high school, they allowed non-white students;
00:15:30 - Drying platforms started around 1918-1920; No Chinese workers in the area; Trapping in the winter and fishing/shrimping in the warmer months;
00:16:45 - 8-10 families lived at Fala; Sabine; People would come by boat to Golden Meadow to get groceries and supplies; Ernest Vadin; Texas wharf; Lester Plaisance's father had a grocery boat and would go to Timbalier; 10-15 families in Timbalier bay;
00:18:45 - They didn't have any law enforcement; She taught 54 years and never had trouble; Unspoken laws/rules in the community;
00:20:18 - 1917; Lumber yard at Larose; Sawmill; Cypress;
00:21:20 - Great-grandparents from France, Spain, Italy, Germany; During the lumber period there was also a lot in people from the north; Yankee canal; Called it Golden Meadow because there was golden (?) everywhere; Most people around there are French;
00:23:35 - Oil industry brought people from all over to the area; During prohibition, people brought in illegal whiskey; 1929-1930; Bob Collins;
00:25:30 - Story about a terrible storm that opened up the tombs; People would leave right away when there was a storm;
00:26:00 - Different types of houses; Bartering/trading instead of cash; In 1917, there weren't many people; People starting coming there when the oil industry took off; Around 1931;
00:29:00 - She was assistant principal because it was customary to have a male principal; Forced into retirement; She taught in Lockport at Holy Savior;
00:30:30 - Types of boats; Cypress boats; Sailboats; Perdiac, between Leeville and Grand Isle; It was a trapping outfit controlled by outside interests; People were there only for trapping season; Cheniere Caminada –– oyster and shrimp; Tonging oysters; Sell oysters in New Orleans;
00:35:45 - Sailing to New Orleans would take 2-3 days; Beef cattle; Salt meat; Sack of oysters was around $0.50;
00:39:11 - Selling oysters; The doctor had to come by boat from Raceland when she gave birth; Folk medicine; Herbs; If anyone was sick, the whole town would help; Story about her daughter when she was sick; Snake bites and gunpowder; Relying on nature because there weren't doctors; Story about a snake bite;
00:45:00 - Trainasse; Former students;
00:46:50 - The Chouest family; His father was born in Gheens; Lake Salvador; Lumber companies; Her paternal grandparents came from Ireland and maternal grandparents came from Germany; Harvey canal; Germans came in the 1780s; The German coast;
00:50:10 - Him and his brother had to walk for miles to go to school near Bayou Vacherie; Teacher was Lena Bourgeois; His father raised sugar cane; Jone Gheens from Kentucky had a mill;
00:51:05 - Not a lot of rice farming in the area; Bayou Lafourche was plugged at Donaldsonville in 1905, which stopped the fresh water flow; Can't use salt water to flood the field; Switched to corn and cane;
00:52:20 - Trainasses east and west of Bayou Lafourche turned into canals by the current; At Timbalier bay, the coast used to be eight miles south; Story about going there in the summer; Lighthouse is now a quarter mile or mile in the Gulf;
00:54:25 - Her salary was $55/month when she first started teaching; Went up to $130/month when she became principal; In 1917, she moved to teach at the age of 17;
00:56:35 - Smuggling during the Great Depression; Story about Chinese workers being smuggled; In St. Bernard parish, they would go offshore to get alcohol; Story about a smuggler; Bootleggers; Jumped out of the boat and swam 5-6 miles to the coast; Sharks;
Interview with Mr. and Mrs. Angelette Felecin Duet
(Not sure who he is interviewing);
00:00:05 - Duck hunting; Story about the first time he went duck hunting;
00:03:20 - Islands and ridges getting smaller in the marsh; Storm in 1906; They moved there in 1915; New Orleans is sinking;
00:07:20 - The ridge at Leeville was 100 ft. wide, now it is gone; People moved from Cheniere Caminada and Leeville to Golden Meadow; They moved their house from Leeville;
00:09:45 - Old houses in Leeville; Kitchen in the back, oven outside; Made with moss and dirt––bousiller; She talks about how she made her wedding cake;
00:13:10 - Mr. Martin; Toll collector on the canal; Gumbo mele (?);
00:14:40 - They came to Golden Meadow in 1915; There was a school in Leeville before 1915; Melancon; He went to school in Cheniere too; He graduated third grade; She went to school for two years, one in French and one in English;
00:17:15 - They didn't have a lot of formal education, but they knew a lot about the marsh; By 17, he was a captain;
00:19:14 - General store; They had 14 children, all had a good education; They talk about their children and where they are living now;
00:24:40 - (Audio goes out);
Interview with Mr. Felicien Duet Jr. (Duhe?) at his home in Galiano;
00:25:10 - Talking about a case; His father is 73 years old; Fala and Bayou Blue; L'esquin (?); About 2-3 families in L'esquin; Started sinking so they moved to Fala; Trappers and fishermen;
00:28:30 - Gardening; Canals; Cattle; Digging a trainasse;
00:30:30 - French settlers in Pointe-aux-Chenes; Sugarcane;
00:33:00 - Chinese workers at platforms near Grand Isle; Shrimp and fish;
00:35:00 - Fish in the summer and trap in the winter; They used to farm, but not many people do anymore;
00:37:30 - His dad was a buyer for Steinberg (?) company; They would stay out trapping from December to March; They had houseboats/flatboat, but now they have camps and faster boats;
00:39:15 - Harrison Cheramie, his uncle, had a grocery boat; They'd trap from Pointe-aux-Chenes to Leeville; Muskrat and Otter; Nutria;
00:43:55 - Trapping at Fala; Bootleg;
00:45:45 - *Audio cuts out for 30 seconds*; Trusting people's words;
00:48:00 - 3 families in Fala; 7 sons and 2 daughters; Those families have been there for more than 100 years; No electricity or screen;
00:52:30 - Some of the sons spend a lot of money; Family in Bayou Blue;
00:56:10 - Another Indian couple lives at Bayou Blue; Nobody lives at L'esquin anymore;
00:58:00 - Kids going to school by boat; Kids today are bad;
01:00:15 - He has about 12 people trapping for him; His dad had about 25-30 people; Sometimes they would walk in the marsh; Leases for hunting and trapping;
01:04:00 - They are looking at a map; Vurdin;
01:05:50 - They talk about case involving land ownership; Lawyers;
01:08:45 - Talking about a French speaking family;
01:12:05 - Lawrence Vaudin (Vurdin?); Meaning of Fala; Many local places have French names;
01:15:10 - Davis asks about Palmetto houses; Land used to be $.25/acre; Boundaries for trapping land; People knew and respected these boundaries;
01:18:00 - King's ridge; Platforms in Terrebonne and Timbalier Bay; Chinese workers; *language*; He says Chinese workers were brought in secret like slaves;
01:21:00 - His father had a motor boat; Steinberg buying fur; Fur business; He buys fur; Nutria and muskrat coats;
Interview with Mr. and Mrs. Angello Angelette
00:00:05 - Interview with Mr. and Mrs. Angello Angelette at their home in Golden Meadow on June 14th, 1973;
00:00:20 - Her grandmother came from Bayou Teche and traveled by boat to Cheniere Caminada; His great great grandfather came with Lafitte; Her grandfather on her mother's side also came with Lafitte; He washed the dishes in the boat when he was 12;
00:01:45 - Platforms at Basa Basa, Manila Village, Bayou Collas, Bayou Beullot (?), Bayou Rigo (?); Before 1893, there was an oyster shucking house; One room house made of plank and the roof was sheeting;
00:03:35 - After the hurricane in 1893, most of the people moved to Westwego, Larose, and Leeville; Before 1893, there were more people at Grand Isle, Cheniere Caminade, Leeville than at Golden Meadow and Cut Off;
00:04:20 - Gardens; Lumber came from the sawmill;
00:07:00 - Boats; Ice for shrimp; They would bring a load of ice from New Orleans;
00:09:35 - Chinese workers in Collas and Rogers; Timbalier; Atchafalaya Bay;
00:13:20 - Some people lived in Esquine (?); Fala; Bayou Blue; They say people prefer to be called Indian instead of Sabine;
00:15:20 - 100-200 people living in Esquine; Isle de Jean Charles; Terrebonne Bay had more platforms;
00:17:40 - Seine with floats; Scott Terrebonne recently passed away; He was 11 when he started a seine crew;
00:22:00 - They had a wood burning stove; No stores or churches; They had a cemetery in Leeville, Grand Isle, Cheniere;
00:24:15 - More platforms in Terrebonne Bay; Oyster houses in the marsh; He just worked shrimp, but his father worked oysters; They used to work in the cold weather;
00:25:38 - His main income was shrimping; He didn't trap much; The marshall came get him for trespassing; Trainasse;
00:30:18 - Her family trapped for a living; They claimed a place before leasing/rent became the common practice; They would hunt to make money; Keep things fresh by packing on ice;
00:32:25 - There were no lazy children during that time; They all worked hard; They would put moss in the duck to keep flies away, then gave the ducks to the shrimp man to put on ice; They would make mattresses and pillow with the feathers; She still has some pillows from 56 years ago;
00:35:15 - Her father would catch 50-100 rats (?) depending on the weather; Mink;
00:36:43 - Perdiac;
00:39:00 - The made their own seine nets; Twine; She makes cast nets; She makes one for all her grandchildren; Tar the nets;
00:43:30 - He caught 3,200 drum fish in one haul; His uncle would make the sails; People in Leeville made boats;
00:45:40 - There were a lot of seine crews;
00:46:10 - She made mosquito nets; She has a sewing machine; Center board on boats; Talking about boat designs;
00:49:50 - People smuggled in for work; Bootleg; Seine skiff with six oars; There were a lot of boats in Cheniere Caminada;
00:53:15 - Selling shrimp; Little Caillou;
00:54:30 - No law enforcement back then, except for trapping land; Building a trainasse; If you don't help build it, you couldn't use it;
00:55:40 - They would go to a dance hall for fun in Leeville; They had church in the school house and a priest would come every 6 months;
00:57:20 - You had to pay a toll to use a canal; Wooden bridges; Groceries came from a store in Leeville; Groceries and ice were delivered by freight boat;
00:58:55 - They had no doctor; They would make their own medicine; Story about the only time she saw a doctor; She misses the old times; People helped each other;
01:00:52 - They don't remember when the first platform was built; Her husband's uncle had a platform at the Fourchon; The kids would stomp on the shrimp for $0.10/day; In the summer, they'd work in the field (?) for $0.25/day;
01:03:00 - They would boil the shrimp at the platform; They could boil 20 hampers at a time (a hamper is about 65 lbs.); People used to live on houseboats/flat boats;
01:04:35 - Bousiller; Mud and moss; Her dad lived in Leeville and would trap everyday but return home at night;
01:05:20 - Discussing boat designs; 30 ft sail;
01:09:00 - There houses weren't built on stilts; Different routes to New Orleans; Lake Salvador;
01:13:45 - Catfish; Stingray; Muskrat; Bringing shrimp form Timbalier to Westwego; Wilkinson Canal; Myrtle Grove; Grand Caillou;
01:18:10 - Davis asks about where Basa Basa and other names come from; Diez Cheramie (?); Little Temple;
01:23:00 - He was the captain when he was 17 years old; Sternwheeler boat; People around there built sternwheeler boats; He had two skiffs;
01:27:30 - People would take oysters to New Orleans; A lot of them lived in Grand Isle and Cheniere Caminada;
01:29:35 - Last Island; People would get drunk at the dance and they had a hotel out there; No one lived at Lake Pelto;
01:30:50 - Changes in the marsh; There used to be different plants and animals; Now it's all saltgrass;
Interview with Mark Picciola
(There is a third man who is not named);
00:00:08 - Different sides of the canal; Cemetery; Melancon's seafood and boat launch in Leeville; Fishing, hunting, and trapping; Seine fishing; 20-35 foot boat called a seine skiff; Captain's role; Those boats were propelled with 8-10 foot oars;
00:06:10 - Dip net for fish and shrimp; Ice boat; No oars, just a sail and a push pull; Cordelle (rope); Larose;
00:10:00 - One man could get to New Orleans just as fast as on a boat with a motor; This was around 1912; His father died in 1905 (?); Lake Salvador;
00:14:50 - Seine boats; The ice boat crew would cook for the seine crew; They mostly ate white beans, but also rice, fried shrimp, and fried fish;
00:16:40 - Selling shrimp at the platform; They'd sleep on the banks of the lake, but the tide would rise and you'd be sleeping in the water; Mosquito barge; Gnats;
00:18:00 - Oyster men; They had small camps; Palmetto roofs; Tonging oysters; They leased the oyster beds from the state ($1.00/acre); They'd bring them to New Orleans; If they couldn't sell them, they would bring them back and put them in the water;
00:22:40 - They usually had flat bottom boats for oysters; Oyster skiff (14-18 feet); Banking; They'd sell them for $.25 a basket (a sack of oysters today was about 2 baskets);
00:25:42 - There were 4-5 families living at oyster camps in the marsh; Broussard's, Kronich (?), Boudreaux's, Galliano's; Julien "Don" Galliano built a grocery store in Jack/Jackie's Camp;
00:28:38 - Most of the camps were on the west side of Bayou Lafourche; Camps at Felicite Island, Jackie's Camp, Bayou Toulouse;
00:30:30 - House on Beard Reef; Barataria Bay; Changes in the coast; In 1912, he was 14 years old and went to Timbalier lighthouse and it was on land; Around 1948, he went fishing at the lighthouse but it was in the water;
00:34:00 - They raised cattle on some of the islands; Those islands are almost completely gone;
00:34:50 - They made rice in Leeville at one point; Barataria Bay: Bayou Collas, Manila Village, Camp Duet, Bayou Do Gris (?), Bayou Cutler; They people who lived there were fishermen; Joe Fischer and his brother had business in Lafitte and had the platform at Manila Village; Dried shrimp; A lot of Chinese workers;
00:37:25 - Dried shrimp at Basa Basa; Not a lot of dried shrimp business in Lafourche Parish, mostly in Terrebonne and Jefferson Parish; The name Basa Basa came from the Chinese community; Several one room camps;
00:39:10 - Lafitte; Tony Crappell (?); Alombro cemetery near Golden Meadow and King Ridge; The King family;
00:42:25 - Bayou Louis; Cattle; The Cheramie's; Palmetto Bayou; This is trapping territory, not oyster or fishing; The land was open and everyone could use it for free; People would mark their spots with trainasses;
00:46:40 - Perdiac is between Leeville and Grand Isle; Hunting; Marais;
00:48:20 - Homes in Cheniere Caminada and Leeville; Mostly square and one room; Bousillage; Stove; Bousiller chimney; Palmetto roof;
00:52:00 - Describes palmetto roofs; Cypress;
00:55:00 - Before 1893, his grandfather took oysters to New Orleans; 50 trips; He had $150, sugar, flour, other groceries;
00:57:00 - Before 1893, Cheniere Caminada had a lot of people; Cote Blanche;
00:59:00 - Discussing where initial immigrants came from; His grandparents;
01:01:00 - Seine crews;
01:02:00 - Stories about how the settlers at Cheniere Caminada came from Lafitte's boat;
01:03:25 - Dance halls in Leeville; House dances; Harmonica, fiddle, and accordion; Weddings; Joe Perrin, Etienne Jambon had dance halls; They were privately owned;
01:05:00 - Not many houseboats; A man would come on a boat with a magic show and movies; Shotgun houses and square houses;
01:07:30 - L'esquine (?) near Fala; Lighthouse keepers; Gray family and Gray Canal;
01:10:15 - Orange groves; Local carpenters built boats; Smaller boats were normally flat bottom and the larger boats were round bottom; Flat bottom is a skiff and a round bottom is a lugger;
01:12:10 - Masts; Spruce sometimes but mostly cypress and pine; Platforms would use timber as fuel;
01:14:30 - **CHRIS** Changes in the marsh; No more cypress;
01:17:00 - Alcohol; ***CHRIS** "We never had prohibition in Golden Meadow"; Weddings; The bride and her bridesmaid would go from door to door to invite everyone to the wedding; Wedding gifts were typically cakes or alcohol to use on the wedding day; People would go door to door to invite people to funerals also; If the priest showed up, a couple of people would go door to door to announce mass;
01:20:20 - Closer doctor was in Larose; Herbs; Yellow fever in 1905; Two doctors in Grand Isle; His mother lost her husband, her only brother, and her only sister in 15 days;
01:22:20 - Traiteurs and sage femmes (midwives); Homemade medicine; Story when he was a kid and his mom tried to give him castor oil;
Interview with Mr. and Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. Hypolite Matherne
(Was listed as Aypolite Matheane, but his name is Hypolite Matherne);
00:15 - Twenty families lived near Bayou Perot; Cemetery; Bayou Vilar; Little Temple;
01:45 - Had to go to Des Allemands for groceries; Selling fish; Lard;
03:20 - Made a living trapping and fishing; Isle de prince noir (?); His grandpa died at 97 years old;
05:00 - Explaining the name Des Allemands; Deux means two; Describing the areas around Des Allemands;
07:30 - The two Schmiltz brothers; His uncle had a cow pasture that would flood; People lived in the marsh to be near the fish; Charlie Hopkins' saw mill;
09:30 - Farming and gardening; Lake Buck (?); Vacherie Canal;
11:15 - Changes in the marsh; Nutrias; Selling ducks between 1912 and 1917;
12:40 - Dances in Des Allemands and Vacherie; Every Saturday; People drank on the first floor and dance on the second floor; He would borrow his brother's boat;
13:50 - Camendale Village (?); Trapping before leasing; They had their own canal;
15:15 - He worked for Steinberg for 25 years; He retired in 1968; Working;
18:10 - Bayou Gauche and Des Allemands; They had a grocery store there, so people traveled to it; Choctaw had two grocery stores; Bayou Perot had a grocery store;
20:25 - They bought their seines instead of making them; People from Des Allemands would troll in Lake Salvador; Lafitte and Barataria;
23:12 - Shrimping;
24:50 - They are looking at photos; Bayou Terrebonne; Grand Lake; They don't have any pictures of their old house;
Next interview with ?;
29:28 - Sister Lake; Crevasse;
30:35 - **Audio goes out;
Next interview with the Matherne's again?;
31:07 - Carmendale Village (?), Bayou Gauche; They've been married 60 years; Fishing; Skiffs and oars;
34:00 - Seine fishing; Four men in a crew;
37:00 - He built his house for $250; Bousiller; Fishing in Des Allemands;
39:38 - Lake Cataouatche; Bayou Segnette;
41:50 - Trainasse / canals; Trapping; Farming;
43:30 - People living on Bayou Segnette;
45:50 - Pointe Chicot / Stump Point; Bayou Matherne near Lake Salvador; Fishing;
49:00 - Selling fish; Fish buyers; They got married in 1912; People lived at Bayou Cuba and Bayou Perot;
52:10 - Hill of berries; Cemetery; E.P. Brady; Groceries;
54:45 - Louisiana Cypress Lumber Company; Hauling timber in 1912;
56:50 - Houseboats; Building boats with cypress; In 1934, shrimp sold for $5 a barrel;
01:00:20 - Manila Village; Camp Dewey; Bayou Bardeaux;
Interview with Hyman Pitre
Tape recorded at slower speed, digitization is fast. Slowed the tape down as much as i could during digitization.