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Louisiana Story a movie classic
"Louisiana Story," filmed in south Louisiana in 1946 and 1947 may be the most poetic industrial film ever made. Helen van Dongen, who was film editor for the movie, called it a "ballet of the roug...
Jun 17, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 49 49 recommendations | email to a friend
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No truth in advertising (Remembering When-Georgie Manuel column)
In the days before most of the modern inventions we use today were even invented, there was, even then, very little truth in advertising, or so it seems. We have it blaring at us from TV but in the...
Jun 11, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 19 19 recommendations | email to a friend
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Of speeding trains and flying hats
On Christmas Day 1882 it became possible to travel by rail from New Orleans to San Francisco. That was the day the final rail was put down to establish the Southern Pacific Railroad system. But the...
Jun 10, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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Georgie Manuel’s new best friend, Chip the mockingbird, perched on top of her chimney.
Talking with Chip the mockingbird Remembering When-Georgie Manuel column
First week in May, I went out on my patio and this mockingbird, perched on top of an old round disc antenna, kept chirping at me. If I went around to the other side of the patio, so it did. If I re...
May 28, 2012 | 2 2 comments | 26 26 recommendations | email to a friend
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Spring has sprung; so have the ‘wildthings’ Remembering When-Georgie Manuel Column
Ah, yes, Spring has definitely sprung. In addition to all the welllandscaped yards, the “Wildthings” have sprouted as well. Case in point: what we call Cherokee Rose. Most of our older Cajun relati...
May 14, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 21 21 recommendations | email to a friend
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Happy Mothers-to-be Day
We’ve come up with a new tradition in our family: Mothers-to-Be Day. I wanted to do something special for my wife for Mother’s Day this year. Shelby worried, however, that honoring her for Mother’s...
May 12, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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Nesting birds a gift of Mother Nature Remembering When-Georgie Manuel column
Mother Nature had a good plan when she decided to have birds start building their nests at the same time that trees are sprouting their new canopy of leaves. Perfect camouflage. There are a number ...
Apr 30, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
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Handicapping Field Day
The first athletic contests at Southwest Louisiana Industrial Institute (UL Lafayette today) were annual Field Days begun in 1904, in which SLII and area high schools competed in track and field ...
Apr 29, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 77 77 recommendations | email to a friend
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Poupeville moved to the railroad
Before Rayne was Rayne it was Poupeville, named after a merchant named Jules Poupeville who had a store there. Before it was Poupeville, it was Queue Tortue. It was named Rayne after B. W. L. Rayne...
Apr 22, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
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A mushroom print from the 1970’s. With proper care and framing, the prints can last for decades.
Heavy rains bring an upsurge in “fairy circles” Remembering When-Georgie Manuel Column
Recent rains have jump-started the growth of mushrooms we see in yards. They are usually seen in large “fairy circles”, a huge circle caused by the spores that fell from a previous mushroom in the ...
Apr 16, 2012 | 1 1 comments | 17 17 recommendations | email to a friend
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Awash in a world of pink
My world has become awash with pink ever since my wife and I discovered our soon-to-be baby is a girl. Shortly after I wrote my first column on being an expectant dad, we had our last visit with th...
Apr 15, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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A collection of cookie jars dating from the mid 1940’s to late 1950’s.
Who took the cookie from the cookie jar? Remembering When- Georgie Manuel
What more delicious smell is there than to walk into a kitchen and smell fresh-baked cookies? And with the Easter celebration a week away, why not bake the little ones something, instead of stuffin...
Apr 02, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
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