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Supper Club
Our friends over at Wikipedia say that “supper clubs tend to present themselves as having a high-class image.”
I have no further comment.
Lafayette, Louisiana
photographed 1.10.2016
The Mother Church
In early January, Christmas angels were still on hand to greet us at the Mother Church of the Acadians.
By the time of our visit, we’d missed the conclusion of the year-long celebration of the 250th anniversary of the church, which was founded by a group of Acadians who’d been evicted from Nova Scotia by the British. These exiles brought their rich culture and traditions which have left a strong, permanent imprint upon Louisiana.
St. Martin de Tours Catholic Church
St. Martinville, Louisiana
photographed 1.9.2016
Acadian Superette
I had a work trip to New Orleans earlier this month, and stayed over for the weekend to visit Lafayette and some other areas in the Acadian parishes of the state; it’s for a project that I’m working on, which will begin to be revealed here on the blog one of these days.
But not yet.
I liked Lafayette, and am looking forward to getting back there to work on my project a little bit more.
And maybe when I’m back this place will be open. I rather like the looks of it.
Lafayette, Louisiana
photographed 1.10.2016
He watches all
I guess this is the opposite of yesterday’s out-of-business church. This huge church took 42 years to build, and it’s still an active parish in heart of the Acadian area known as the French Shore.
The French Shore is one of the areas that the Acadians were permitted to live when the British had second thoughts about their earlier deportation. (The British had taken over, and weren’t interested in giving up, the rich farmland of their original homeland.) As a result, upon the Acadians’ return to Nova Scotia, they were in a new area and had to find new ways to earn a living, to make a life. And so it is now, over 250 years since their return, the Acadian culture is still strong. French is still the dominate language. The Acadian flag, the Stella Maris, is visible everywhere. The food has long associations with those early, thin days after the return. The music is still heavily influenced by ancient tunes.
And each community has an active Catholic church, with Jesus on His cross watching over it all.
Église Saint-Bernard
St. Bernard, Nova Scotia
photographed 7.28.2015
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