[PDF] The True Story Of Eunice Louisiana eBook

Author : Emma Maria Fusilier de la Claire Philastre
Publisher :
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 24,4 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Eunice (La.)
ISBN :

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The family name of Fusilier is prominent in this history.

Author : Bianca Cuie
Publisher :
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 50,42 MB
Release : 2012
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 9780988872608

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Lula Mae Harrison is a beloved young woman in the small segregated town of Eunice, Louisiana. She was born and raised in a Creole community that is still mending from a past which caused rifts between loved ones, who are forced to redefine their identities in a consequence of their collective history. Lula Mae rebels and carves out a life of her own with the help of her faith and the one whom she trusts the most.

Author : Morris Ardoin
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 37,35 MB
Release : 2020-04-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1496827759

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In the summers of the early 1970s, Morris Ardoin and his siblings helped run their family's roadside motel in a hot, buggy, bayou town in Cajun Louisiana. The stifling, sticky heat inspired them to find creative ways to stay cool and out of trouble. When they were not doing their chores—handling a colorful cast of customers, scrubbing motel-room toilets, plucking chicken bones and used condoms from under the beds—they played canasta, an old ladies’ game that provided them with a refuge from the sun and helped them avoid their violent, troubled father. Morris was successful at occupying his time with his siblings and the children of families staying in the motel’s kitchenette apartments but was not so successful at keeping clear of his father, a man unable to shake the horrors he had experienced as a child and, later, as a soldier. The preteen would learn as he matured that his father had reserved his most ferocious attacks for him because of an inability to accept a gay or, to his mind, broken, son. It became his dad’s mission to “fix” his son, and Morris’s mission to resist—and survive intact. He was aided in his struggle immeasurably by the love and encouragement of a selfless and generous grandmother, who provides his story with much of its warmth, wisdom, and humor. There’s also suspense, awkward romance, naughty French lessons, and an insider’s take on a truly remarkable, not-yet-homogenized pocket of American culture.

Author : Alma Brunson Reed
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 36,62 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738566405

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"Beginning as a real estate venture on the isolated prairie of southwestern Louisiana in 1894, Eunice is now a progressive small city due to its traditions of volunteerism, community spirit, and resourcefulness. In the late 1980s, the city enjoyed a renaissance when a far-sighted mayor capitalized on the dominant Cajun culture to pull Eunice out of the economic crevasse of the decade's "oil bust." It emerged as a picturesque community with an emphasis on its rich history and its newly recognized heritage tourism. The city's unique Frenchness lures tourists and locals to the live Cajun music shows at the Liberty Center and to experience the joie de vivre at a rural Mardi Gras. The historic images found in Images of America: Eunice feature the day-to-day activities of Eunice's people through good times and lean days from 1894 to the late 1980s." --Publisher's description.

Author : Martha Hodes
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 41,62 MB
Release : 2011-02-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0393078396

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A finalist for the Lincoln Prize, The Sea Captain's Wife "comes surprisingly, and movingly, alive" (Tina Jordan, Entertainment Weekly). Award-winning historian Martha Hodes brings us into the extraordinary world of Eunice Connolly. Born white and poor in New England, Eunice moved from countryside to factory city, worked in the mills, then followed her husband to the Deep South. When the Civil War came, Eunice's brothers joined the Union army while her husband fought and died for the Confederacy. Back in New England, a widow and the mother of two, Eunice barely got by as a washerwoman, struggling with crushing depression. Four years later, she fell in love with a black sea captain, married him, and moved to his home in the West Indies. Following every lead in a collection of 500 family letters, Hodes traced Eunice's footsteps and met descendants along the way. This story of misfortune and defiance takes up grand themes of American history—opportunity and racism, war and freedom—and illuminates the lives of ordinary people in the past. A Library Journal Best Book of the Year and a selection of the Book of the Month Club, Literary Guild, and Quality Paperback Book Club.

Author : Todd Elliott
Publisher : Trine Day
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 38,82 MB
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 193758464X

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Shifting the focus away from the assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas, to 48 hours prior in Eunice, Louisiana, this book explores the prediction made by Melba Marcades, aka Rose Cherami, that the president would be assassinated on Friday, November 22, 1963 in Dallas. Discounting clairvoyance, the book investigates the possibility that Rose had inside information about the assassination. However, Rose Cherami was not a credible witness: she was a prostitute, a one-time performer in Jack Ruby's Carousel Club, an admitted drug trafficker, a drug addict, and a car thief. But the author’s research reveals glaring omissions in her FBI files, questionable admissions regarding her criminal history, and the dubious details of her untimely demise. This book sheds new light on a relatively unknown footnote of the JFK conspiracy theory.

Author : Warren Frey
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 16,75 MB
Release : 2018-05-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1387825275

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In June of 1971, a devil traveled to Louisiana to commit a robbery, thinking he'd make easy money as he usually did when he stole from innocent families. That night-his last night alive-he made the mistake of knocking on the Frey family's door. In Gunfight at Frey Ranch, readers will experience the perspectives of Warren Frey, his wife, Verna, their three oldest children, Donna, Billy, and Shawn, and the head detective on the case, Kenneth Goss. In addition, a box of case files has recently been examined in order to theorize who likely ac-companied the slayed man to attempt to rob the Frey family that fateful night.

Author : Barry Jean Ancelet
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 39,18 MB
Release : 2014-05-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1604736178

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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.