Welsh Mayor Carolyn Louviere holding “A Dictionary of the Cajun Language” (Photo by Nick Chrastil)
The town of Welsh, some 25 miles east of Lake Charles, has become a point of interest in the halls of power at the Louisiana State Capitol.
Today we know the jolly old elf who brings presents to good children on Christmas as Santa Claus. But he went by several names in Louisiana in days gone by, and Santa wasn’t one of them.
Fiddle players take a class during the Blackpot Camp at Lakeview Park and Beach. The event is part of the Blackpot Festival, which will be this Saturday and Sunday in Vermilionville. (Photo by Claudette Olivier)
Music, dancing and food are all slices of the pie that make up Louisiana’s history, and out-of-towners are camping out to get a piece of the action.
Jules Bouteleux, 30, and Juliette Duchange, 29, of Brussels, Belgium, look at the Mardi Gras exhibit at the Experience Louisiana Festival in the Continuing Education Building on the LSUE campus. (Photo by Myra Miller)
A Belgian couple learned about a traditional Mardi Gras at the Experience Louisiana Festival and plan to return in February for the Eunice celebration.
South Louisiana music is commonly called “Cajun” and “Creole” music today, but almost all of it shares common roots in a Louisiana French musical tradition that found its fullest expression on the prairies of south Louisiana.
