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The Cajun Prairie

Author : Malcolm F. Vidrine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780368364808
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (648 download)

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Download or read book The Cajun Prairie written by Malcolm F. Vidrine and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cajun Prairie is 99.9 percent destroyed. However, the authors discovered remnants of this prairie habitat along railroad rights-of-ways in the 1980s and photographed these remnants during their years of investigation. More than 200 of these images are arranged into monthly displays in an effort to provide views of the prairie as it may have appeared in the 1800s. The remnants were each distinctive in their biodiversity, and each provided a splash of color from the blooming plants at different times of the year. These remnants are now decimated; thus these images are basically all that remains. An essay on the discovery of these remnants and the discoveries made while studying these remnants introduces and closes the monthly presentation of images.

The Cajun Prairie

Author : Malcolm F. Vidrine
Publisher : M.F. Vidrine
ISBN 13 : 9780615368139
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (681 download)

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Download or read book The Cajun Prairie written by Malcolm F. Vidrine and published by M.F. Vidrine. This book was released on 2010 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Cajun Prairie, a 2.5 million acre wilderness in 1600, was occupied by Native Americans and the native prairie plants and animals. By 1800, the tallgrass prairie in September obscured the view across the landscape making it extremely easy to get lost, and by December the mud was so deep that a wagon was quickly buried to the axle, but winter fires brought forth the most luxuriant growth of grasses and wildflowers from early spring to late summer. 'The most beautiful region in Louisiana,' 'the garden of Louisiana' and 'one of the most agreeable views in nature' were descriptions of early travelers like C.C. Robin, William Darby and Col. Samuel Lockett. Today, this prairie is listed as 'critically imperiled (S1)' by the Louisiana Natural Heritage Program. Literally less than 100 acres remain in narrow strips and small pieces dotting the landscape. The natural history of this prairie is described for the first time as result of the work of a group of devoted prairie ecologists and enthusiasts. This is their story and a view of the future as restoration ecologists attempt to recreate the Cajun Prairie as a sustainable landscape, a remarkable biodiversity garden and a tribute to our natural heritage"--Cover, p. 4.

Cajun Prairies

Author : Malcolm F. Vidrine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781714376155
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (761 download)

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Download or read book Cajun Prairies written by Malcolm F. Vidrine and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cajun Prairies: Then and Now provides a brief introduction to the natural areas in southwestern Louisiana. These prairies, like so much natural habitat, is lost. Efforts to appreciate the natural history of the region and efforts to recreate natural areas by restoration activities are central in this story. This little book provides a final clarion call for the Cajun Prairies, a habitat that is filled with history and potential.

The Cajun Prairie

Author : Malcolm F. Vidrine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780368365072
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (65 download)

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The Cajun Prairie Restoration Project in Eunice, Louisiana

Author : Malcolm F. Vidrine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780464891482
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book The Cajun Prairie Restoration Project in Eunice, Louisiana written by Malcolm F. Vidrine and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-29 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cajun Prairie Restoration Project in Eunice, Louisiana is a 30 year old project carried out by scientists and volunteers. This book uses photographs to tell the story of this project and to celebrate the volunteers who made the project possible. The Cajun Prairie Habitat Preservation Society maintains the site, educates interested groups and provides tours of the site. The book is in essence the scrapbook of the author--an evolutionary ecologist who played a role in the project origination. This book also celebrates the City of Eunice and its university, Louisiana State University Eunice.

Cajun Country

Author : Barry Jean Ancelet
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1604736178
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Cajun Country written by Barry Jean Ancelet and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This insightful book is by far the broadest examination of traditional Cajun culture ever assembled. It goes beyond the stereotypes and surface treatment given to Cajuns by the popular media and examines the great variety of cultural elements alive in Cajun culture today--cooking, music, storytelling, architecture, arts and crafts, and festivals, as well as traditional occupations such as fishing, hunting, and trapping. It not only gives fascinating descriptions of elements in Cajun life that have been woven into the fabric of American history and folklore; it also explains how they came to be. Cajun Country reveals the historical background of the Cajun people, who migrated to Louisiana as exiles from their Canadian homeland, and it shows their folklife as a living and ongoing legacy that enriches America.

Cajun Sketches from the Prairies of Southwest Louisiana

Author : Lauren C. Post
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Cajun Sketches from the Prairies of Southwest Louisiana written by Lauren C. Post and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Louisiana

Author : Richard Bizier
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781565543508
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (435 download)

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Download or read book Louisiana written by Richard Bizier and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 1998-02-28 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louisiana presents an overview of the culture in the New World and Louisiana, including related literature, such as Longfellow's Evangeline. For the visitor, the state is divided into geographic regions such as New Orleans, the plantations, and Lafayette. For each area, tours, historic sites, and restaurants are described. The section on New Orleans celebrates the French Quarter and the local food and music. Outside of New Orleans are majestic plantations and beautiful bayous filled with cypress trees and hanging Spanish moss. Side trips from New Orleans allow visitors to sample some of the various musical tastes of the Bayou State. Zydeco music may be found in Lafayette, while Cajun music may be heard throughout the southern part of the state. Special features include information on consulates, tourist offices, banks and currency exchanges, and maps which, among other things, show distances between cities. With Louisiana , anyone can pass a good time and learn how to let the good times roll, or, as the Cajuns say rouler.

Louisiana's Cajun Prairie

Author : Miriam Lee Fearn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (336 download)

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Download or read book Louisiana's Cajun Prairie written by Miriam Lee Fearn and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Prairie Directory of North America

Author : Charlotte Adelman
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0195366956
Total Pages : 686 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Prairie Directory of North America written by Charlotte Adelman and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of Prairie Directory of North America is a comprehensive guide to locating North American public prairies, grasslands, and savannas.

Acadian to Cajun

Author : Carl A. Brasseaux
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781617031113
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Acadian to Cajun written by Carl A. Brasseaux and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1992 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This work serves as a model for compiling ethnohistories of other nonliterate peoples."--BOOK JACKET.

Louisiana Sojourns

Author : Frank de Caro
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807122402
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (224 download)

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Download or read book Louisiana Sojourns written by Frank de Caro and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2005-05-01 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping collection of observations and episodes penned by visitors to Louisiana from the sixteenth century to the 1990s, Louisiana Sojourns is—much like the state itself—a wonder to behold in its sum, and in its particulars, full of surprise and delight. The seventy-six pieces that Frank A. de Caro has selected give readers a vivid sense of how Louisiana's unique blend of Old World, South, the exotic, and quintessential America has exerted a pull and hold on travelers. Included are writings by well-known figures such as Mark Twain, Teddy Roosevelt, Kate Chopin, John Steinbeck, Frederick Law Olmsted, Walker Percy, William Faulkner, Simone de Beauvoir, Henry Miller, John James Audubon, Calvin Trillin, Zora Neale Hurston, A. J. Liebling, William Least Heat Moon, and Frederick Turner. Dozens of other wayfarers are represented as well.

Cajun Women and Mardi Gras

Author : Carolyn E. Ware
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252056450
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Cajun Women and Mardi Gras written by Carolyn E. Ware and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2024-03-18 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cajun Women and Mardi Gras is the first book to explore the importance of women’s contributions to the country Cajun Mardi Gras tradition, or Mardi Gras “run.” Most Mardi Gras runs--masked begging processions through the countryside, led by unmasked capitaines--have customarily excluded women. Male organizers explain that this rule protects not only the tradition’s integrity but also women themselves from the event’s rowdy, often drunken, play. Throughout the past twentieth century, and especially in the past fifty years, women in some prairie communities have insisted on taking more active and public roles in the festivities. Carolyn E. Ware traces the history of women’s participation as it has expanded from supportive roles as cooks and costume makers to increasingly public performances as Mardi Gras clowns and (in at least one community) capitaines. Drawing on more than a decade of fieldwork interviews and observation in Mardi Gras communities, Ware focuses on the festive actions in Tee Mamou and Basile to reveal how women are reshaping the celebration as creative artists and innovative performers.

A Cajun Girl's Sharecropping Years

Author : Viola Fontenot
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496817109
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book A Cajun Girl's Sharecropping Years written by Viola Fontenot and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2019 Humanities Book of the Year from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Today sharecropping is history, though during World War II and the Great Depression sharecropping was prevalent in Louisiana's southern parishes. Sharecroppers rented farmland and often a small house, agreeing to pay a one-third share of all profit from the sale of crops grown on the land. Sharecropping shaped Louisiana's rich cultural history, and while there have been books published about sharecropping, they share a predominately male perspective. In A Cajun Girl's Sharecropping Years, Viola Fontenot adds the female voice into the story of sharecropping. Spanning from 1937 to 1955, Fontenot describes her life as the daughter of a sharecropper in Church Point, Louisiana, including details of field work as well as the domestic arts and Cajun culture. The account begins with stories from early life, where the family lived off a gravel road near the woods without electricity, running water, or bathrooms, and a mule-drawn wagon was the only means of transportation. To gently introduce the reader to her native language, the author often includes French words along with a succinct definition. This becomes an important part of the story as Fontenot attends primary school, where she experienced prejudice for speaking French, a forbidden and punishable act. Descriptions of Fontenot's teenage years include stories of going to the boucherie; canning blackberries, figs, and pumpkins; using the wood stove to cook dinner; washing and ironing laundry; and making moss mattresses. Also included in the texts are explanations of rural Cajun holiday traditions, courting customs, leisure activities, children's games, and Saturday night house dances for family and neighbors, the fais do-do.

Legendary Louisiana Outlaws

Author : Keagan LeJeune
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807162590
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Legendary Louisiana Outlaws written by Keagan LeJeune and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2016-03-21 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the infamous pirate Jean Laffite and the storied couple Bonnie and Clyde, to less familiar bandits like train-robber Eugene Bunch and suspected murderer Leather Britches Smith, Legendary Louisiana Outlaws explores Louisiana's most fascinating fugitives. In this entertaining volume, Keagan LeJeune draws from historical accounts and current folklore to examine the specific moments and legal climate that spawned these memorable characters. He shows how Laffite embodied Louisiana's shift from an entrenched French and Spanish legal system to an American one, and relates how the notorious groups like the West and Kimbrell Clan served as community leaders and law officers but covertly preyed on Louisiana's Neutral Strip residents until citizens took the law into their own hands. Likewise, the bootlegging Dunn brothers in Vinton, he explains, demonstrate folk justice's distinction between an acceptable criminal act (operating an illegal moonshine still) and an unacceptable one (cold-blooded murder). Recounting each outlaw's life, LeJeune also considers their motives for breaking the law as well as their attempts at evading capture. Running from authorities and trying to escape imprisonment or even death, these men and women often relied on the support of ordinary citizens, sympathetic in the face of oppressive and unfair laws. Through the lens of folk life, LeJeune's engaging narrative demonstrates how a justice system functions and changes and highlights Louisiana's particular challenges in adapting a system of law and order to work for everyone.

Cajun Foodways

Author : C. Paige Gutierrez
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1628467770
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (284 download)

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Download or read book Cajun Foodways written by C. Paige Gutierrez and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cajun food has become a popular “ethnic” food throughout America during the last decade. This fascinating book explores the significance of Cajun cookery on its home turf in south Louisiana, a region marked by startling juxtapositions of the new and the old, the nationally standard and the locally unique. Neither a cookbook nor a restaurant guide, Cajun Foodways gives interpretation to the meaning of traditional Cajun food from the perspective of folklife studies and cultural anthropology. The author takes into account the modern regional popular culture in examining traditional foodways of the Cajuns. Cajuns' attention to their own traditional foodways is more than merely nostalgia or a clever marketing ploy to lure tourists and sell local products. The symbolic power of Cajun food is deeply rooted in Cajuns' ethnic identity, especially their attachments to their natural environment and their love of being with people. Foodways are an effective symbol for what it means to be a Cajun today. The reader interested in food and in cooking will find much appeal in this book, for it illustrates a new way to think about how and why people eat as they do.

The Cajun Prairie Gardens

Author : M. F. Vidrine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780368051814
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book The Cajun Prairie Gardens written by M. F. Vidrine and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cajun Prairie Gardens demonstrate wildscaping with native prairie plants in southwestern Louisiana. The gardens are family-owned and operated. The book provides an introduction to the authors' family and their gardens. Chapters include a description of some of the gardens: Louisiana irises, mints, peas, milkweeds, sunflowers, grasses, biodiversity and pollinators. A chapter celebrating many of the visitors is followed by a chapter on progressive landscaping and residential planning.