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What's in a name?
Back in the days before Cajun Pride kicked in and we began to convince the rest of the world that it really was fashionably faddish to put hot sauce on corn flakes and call it Louisiana cooking, a ...
Aug 26, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
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Vets lost in the shuffle
By Lincoln Savoie “Though the nation has pressing domestic concerns, those who protect it worldwide cannot be forgotten in the shuffle,” VFW Commander-in-Chief Richard De Noyer. From his office i...
Aug 25, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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It was him, not the devil
By Billy Turner I’m not sure what I’m about to relate to you is scriptural, but I believe it to be true. Maybe in 3rd Thessalonians or someplace. Maybe in Genesis II or somewhere else. I believe t...
Aug 20, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Mom’s machine is already packed away in the car and mine is sighing a sigh of relief that I’ll be out of the house and away from it for a few days.
Sewing machine stitches generation to generation (Remembering When- Georgie Manuel column)
Packed my mom’s old sewing machine today, to take it to a new home with a daughter of ours. Looking at all the nicks caused by carelessly laid scissors and spots where paint has rubbed off in some ...
Aug 20, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
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Germans gave Acadians help
When the first Acadians began to settle along the Mississippi River above New Orleans, they were met by a band of Germans who'd been there for at least three generations. In fact, had the Germans ...
Aug 19, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
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Going for the gold
By Billly Turner I’m not sure you’re aware, but the Olympics have been going on and the sprawling London Games come to an end today. I’ve watched a few things, some volleyball here and there, some...
Aug 12, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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St. Mary native raced Nellie Bly around the world
When Nellie Bly died in 1922, the New York Evening Herald called her "the best reporter in America." She pioneered investigative journalism, feigning insanity to get herself committed to an asylum...
Aug 12, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 62 62 recommendations | email to a friend
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These are some of the ingredients needed to make some good old-fashioned homemade ice cream including the depression glass beater on a measuring cup and an honest-to-goodness unopened bottle of U-ZO strawberry pop.
Whipping up some Pop Rouge! (Remembering When- Georgie Manuel column)
Ice cream anyone? When the sidewalks start to melt, it’s time to take the old ice cream freezer out of the attic and crank it up. That’s not too hard a job these days, as most of the freezers are e...
Aug 06, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
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Obama's right -- he didn't earn it
By Allan Von Werder Progressives were in a tizzy after Barack Obama let slip their foundational philosophy that the individual is meaningless, accomplishes nothing on his own and only exists to fe...
Aug 06, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Christ and chicken
By Billy Turner It would be incredibly easy but not very sensible for a religion columnist to ignore the top issue of the week for many. It is a difficult subject at best, a divisive subject at wo...
Aug 05, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Plus ça change
More than a third of the nation's oysters come from Louisiana waters and I think the oyster promotion people are dead right when they proclaim, "The Louisiana oyster. There's nothing quite like it....
Aug 05, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 51 51 recommendations | email to a friend
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V12 program kept school open
During World War II, Joel Fletcher, president of Southwestern Louisiana Institute (UL today), was forced to consider closing the school as more and more young men left the campus to go off to war. ...
Jul 29, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 48 48 recommendations | email to a friend
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