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Travel the back roads that hug the bayous of Louisiana from Shreveport to Grand Isle. Discover overlooked haunts and unique museums in this delightful journey along the country roads of Louisiana. A great armchair read as well as the guide thatll have you wandering off highways and poking through great old towns with lots of history and stories.
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Also by Glen Pitre and Michelle Benoit: Great River, a novel
By Glen Pitre: Belizaire the Cajun, a novel The Crawfish Book, a social history and cookbook
By Glen Pitre with Drs. Barry Ancelet and Jay Edwards Cajun Country, a cultural survey
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Country Roads of Louisiana
by Glen Pitre and Michelle Benoit
Country Roads Press Oaks, Pennsylvania
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Country Roads of Louisiana 1996 by Glen Pitre and Michelle Benoit. All rights reserved.
Published by Country Roads Press P.O. Box 838, 2170 West Drive Oaks, Pennsylvania 19456
Cover design by Caroline Hagen. Cover illustration 1996 by Michael McCurdy. Illustrations by Victoria Sheridan. Typesetting by Free Hand Press.
ISBN 1-56626-138-4
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Country Roads of Louisiana / by Glen Pitre, Michelle Benoit p. cm. Includes index ISBN 1-56626-138-4 (alk. paper)
1. Louisiana-Guidebooks. 2. Automobile travel-Louisiana Guidebooks. I. Benoit, Michelle II. Title F367.3.P58 1995 917.6304'63dc20 95-9758 CIP
Printed in Canada.
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To Margaret, queen of the road; and Emelia and Loulan, who welcome us home again.
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Contents
Introduction
xi
History, Hiking, and Homemade Pie: Baton Rouge to Alexandria
1
Red River Valley: Alexandria to Shreveport
12
Blues, Oil, and Milk Gravy: Shreveport to Monroe
21
The Louisiana Delta: Monroe to Lake Providence
32
The Colonial Trail: Natchez, MS, to Alexandria
41
Pine Trees and Politics: Alexandria to Ruston
47
The North Shore: New Orleans to Covington
52
Up the Bayou: New Orleans to Thibodaux
61
Down the Bayou: New Orleans to Grand Isle
68
The Great River Road: New Orleans to Baton Rouge
78
The Felicianas: Baton Rouge and back
88
Saints and Sugarcane: Baton Rouge to Houma
98
The Old Spanish Trail: Houma to New Iberia
108
Crawfish and Boudin: Lafayette to Washington
117
The Cajun Prairies: Washington to Lafayette
127
Birds on Gulf Breezes: New Iberia to Lake Charles
136
Borderlands: Lake Charles to Toledo Bend
144
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Acknowledgments
Thanks to everyone who made writing this book a rare treat; to Katheryn Krotzer-Laborde for her red pencil; to our staff for minding the store; to our families for lending beds, minding cats, and reminding us that, hey, most folks would kill to sightsee for a living. And to places we didn't visitsee you next time.
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Introduction
There once was a farmer who had a pig. The farmer loved his pig, would do anything for it. The pig liked the farmer well enough, but what the pig really loved was persimmons.
One day a passing neighbor watched the farmer straining to hold up his pig so it could eat persimmons from a tree. Of course, the pig spent a great deal of time sniffing each persimmon first to be sure it was ripe before chomping into it.
"If you shook the tree, the ripe persimmons would fall," offered the neighbor, "Pig could eat 'em off the ground. Would save a lot of time."
The farmer considered the suggestion as he held high his beloved pig. "Sure," he finally shrugged. "But what's time to a pig?"
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