Download or read book Voices from the Louisiana Prairie written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Download or read book Louisiana Voices Audio Book Production Program written by State Library of Louisiana. Services for the Blind and Physically Handicapped. Louisiana Voices and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Voices from Louisiana written by Ann Brewster Dobie and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2018-03-21 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voices from Louisiana provides thoughtful, timely profiles of some of the state’s most highly regarded and popular contemporary authors. Readers interested in Louisiana’s rich literary tradition will appreciate these evocative essays on writers whose works emanate from the cultures and landscapes of the Gulf South. Ann Brewster Dobie explores the works of eleven well-known authors and concludes with a look at several emerging talents. These writers work in a broad range of genres, from coming-of-age stories and historical narratives that recover the voices of silenced and oppressed peoples, to crime thrillers set in New Iberia and New Orleans, to poetic invocations of the natural world and narratives capturing the realities of working-class lives. Whether native to the state or transplants, these writers produce works that reflect the vibrant culture that defines the intricate literary landscape of the Pelican State. Dobie highlights the careers of Darrell Bourque, James Lee Burke, Ernest Gaines, Tim Gautreaux, Shirley Ann Grau, Greg Guirard, William Joyce, Julie Kane, Tom Piazza, Martha Serpas, and James Wilcox. Newcomers also profiled include Wiley Cash, Ashley Mace Havird, Anne L. Simon, Katy Simpson Smith, Ashley Weaver, Steve Weddle, and Ken Wheaton.
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.
Download or read book Louisiana Voices written by Janet Barnwell and published by Louisiana State University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In selections from interviews recorded at the T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History, the narrators of Louisiana Voices relate, in their own words, their World War II experiences. Veterans recall the dramatic events from their enlistment through basic training, combat, and occupation duty. They detail their experiences in major battles, the organization of various theaters, and their yearning for the home front. Stanley Hilton's introductions and conclusions to each chapter provide historical and analytical context for individual reminiscences.
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.
Download or read book Voice of Masonry and Family Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pioneer Women written by Joanna L. Stratton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a rediscovered collection of autobiographical accounts written by hundreds of Kansas pioneer women in the early twentieth century, Joanna Stratton has created a collection hailed by Newsweek as “uncommonly interesting” and “a remarkable distillation of primary sources.” Never before has there been such a detailed record of women’s courage, such a living portrait of the women who civilized the American frontier. Here are their stories: wilderness mothers, schoolmarms, Indian squaws, immigrants, homesteaders, and circuit riders. Their personal recollections of prairie fires, locust plagues, cowboy shootouts, Indian raids, and blizzards on the plains vividly reveal the drama, danger and excitement of the pioneer experience. These were women of relentless determination, whose tenacity helped them to conquer loneliness and privation. Their work was the work of survival, it demanded as much from them as from their men—and at last that partnership has been recognized. “These voices are haunting” (The New York Times Book Review), and they reveal the special heroism and industriousness of pioneer women as never before.
Download or read book Home at Last written by Emily Brown Stothart and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Ellis married Elizabeth Freeman and emigrated from England ca. 1645 to New Plymouth, Massachusetts. Six generations later, Silas Duncan and Rosetta Ellis had a son named Eugene Duncan. Descendants and relatives lived in Massachusetts, Nova Scotia, New York, Wisconsin and elsewhere.
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:
Download or read book English One Tongue Many Voices written by Jan Svartvik and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-19 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the fully revised and expanded second edition of English - One Tongue, Many Voices, a book by three internationally distinguished English language scholars who tell the fascinating, improbable saga of English in time and space. Chapters trace the history of the language from its obscure beginnings over 1500 years ago as a collection of dialects spoken by marauding, illiterate tribes. They show how the geographical spread of the language in its increasing diversity has made English into an international language of unprecedented range and variety. The authors examine the present state of English as a global language and the problems, pressures and uncertainties of its future, online and offline. They argue that, in spite of the amazing variety and plurality of English, it remains a single language.
Download or read book The First Annual Grand Prairie Rabbit Festival written by Ken Wheaton and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Grand Prairie, Louisiana—land of confounding accents, hard-drinking senior citizens, and charming sinners—brought to hilarious life in a bracing, heartfelt debut novel simmering with Cajun spice. . . Father Steve Sibille has come home to the bayou to take charge of St. Pete's church. Among his challenges are teenybopper altar girls, insomnia-curing confessions, and alarmingly alluring congregant Vicky Carrier. Then there's Miss Rita, an irrepressible centenarian with a taste for whiskey, cracklins, and sticking her nose in other people's business. When an outsider threatens to poach Father Steve's flock, Miss Rita suggests he fight back by staging an event that will keep St. Pete's parishioners loyal forever. As The First Annual Grand Prairie Rabbit Festival draws near, help comes from the strangest places. And while the road to the festival may be paved with good intentions—not to mention bake sales, an elephant, and the most bizarre cook-out ever—where it will lead is anyone's guess. . . "A sparkling debut." --Luis Alberto Urrea, author of Queen of America "Delightful. . ..Wheaton writes with an infectious energy, and his affection for the characters and culture is authentic." --Publishers Weekly
Download or read book A Writer s Voice written by Joseph Paul Linduska and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Writer's Voice will introduce a new generation of environmentally concerned readers to Linduska's strong conservation ethic and engaging writing style and reintroduce him to those familiar with his work." "This book will appeal to anyone who enjoys reading about the natural world, and to those who participate in wildlife-related activities or are interested in the history of environmental conservation."--Jacket.
Download or read book Oral History Association Newsletter written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Finding Myself Lost in Louisiana written by Keagan LeJeune and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2023-09-11 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Finding Myself Lost in Louisiana, author Keagan LeJeune brilliantly weaves the unusual folklore, landscape, and history of Louisiana along with his own family lineage that begins in 1760 to trace the trajectory of people’s lives in the Bayou State. His account confronts the challenging environmental record evident in Louisiana’s landscapes. LeJeune also celebrates and memorializes traditions of some underrepresented communities in Louisiana, communities that are vanishing or have vanished—communities including the author’s own. Each section in the memoir is a journey to a fascinating place, but it’s also a search for LeJeune’s own sense of belonging. The book is an adventure and a pilgrimage across Louisiana to explore its future and to reckon with feelings of loss and anxiety accompanying climate disasters. LeJeune travels to Louisiana’s geographic center to learn what waits there. He chases the ghosts of Hot Wells, a shuttered healing resort, and he kneels at the tomb of folk saint Charlene Richard. With every adventure, every memory, he ends up much closer to home.
