The second edition of the Experience Louisiana Festival begins at 7 a.m. Saturday with a traditional Cajun boucherie, but officially opens with a New Orleans-style second line parade.
Wayne Toups will be the closing band for the Experience Louisiana Festival on Oct. 23. (Photo by Harlan Kirgan)
The Experience Louisiana Festival will open its second year with a New Orleans style second line parade through the festival site.
Harold Schexsnayder, left, and Judy Harmon spoke about their business, Louisiana Pie Peddlers, to the Eunice Rotary Club Wednesday. (Photo by Harlan Kirgan)
Quite possibly some Eunice Rotarians enjoyed a Zen-like moment as they experienced the pies of Louisiana Pie Peddlers.
Sweet, flaky dough, tasty fillings: boudin, peach, sweet potato and corn maque choux
One might think: Pie R Good.
Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser talked about tourism to about 40 people Wednesday morning at the St. Landry Parish Visitors Center off Interstate 49 near Washington. At left is Celeste Gomez, St. Landry Parish Tourism executive director. Nungesser was on a tour to promote tourism during National Travel and Tourism Week. (Photos by Harlan Kirgan
Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser stopped at the St. Landry Parish Visitors Center off Interstate 49 to talk about the benefits of tourism.
State budget cuts show the value of tourism, he said to about 40 people Wednesday morning in the five-year-old center.
More than 760 leaders from every corner of the state participated in the third annual Leaders Against Litter event on March 18.
The participants included Gov. John Bel Edwards, first lady Donna Edwards and Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser.
