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This Wednesday at 7 PM, PBS begins a 3-part series
on "Greeks:
Crucible of Civilization". Please have your Junior
and Senior High
students watch this. They will learn who we
are, and more
importantly, why we are this way.
++++++++++++++= Good heavens !! Tina Turner in her
sixties---- I couldn't move like that when I was 10.
++++++++++++++++ Live Oaks the beautiful ante bellum home
on Hwy 71 North, was the home of Mary McCoy. Solomon
Northrup wrote of playing the fiddle there at a Christmas party.
She was known as the Belle of the Bayou. She must have
been a charmer, she married 5 times. She was grandmother
to Mrs. Burton Dupuy of Bunkie and "Dirty Helm",
an LSU football star. He got the nickname, not because of
his playing style, but because his uniform was always dirtier
than the rest of the teams'. He really worked at it.
++++++++++++++++++ A good place to wonder on pretty
weekends is New Iberia. It has Avery Island and the
Tabasco factory and store; Jefferson Island and the beautiful
Live Oaks Gardens; Weeks Hall and the wonderful Konriko Rice
Mill, the oldest rice mill in the United States. You'll
see a nice film and their store has all kinds of cuties for
sale.
Weeks Hall, near downtown New Iberia, was the first private home
in the
United States to be purchased by the National Trust for Historic
Preservation. It is beautifully kept and the tour guides
are most
knowledgeable. My pet in New Iberia is the Joe Jefferson
home and the
Live Oaks gardens.
++++++++++++++++ The burning question: can LSU get
into the NCAA March Madness?? They've been so erratic---
had the lid snapped on them at Miss State then bludgeoned Ala.
If they do get in the tournament, am afraid they won't go
farther than the first round.
++++++++++++++++++++++ Rotarys' 75th Anniversary meeting
was so nice. They have a lot of fine examples to live up
to. Surely no other club has the perfect attendance record
set by Bunkies' Curry Elliott.
+++++++++++++++++++++ Do you know how our parish
towns
got their names ??? Think about it, more on that
next week.
+++++++++++++= Off the 'Net;
"You know you're from La. if ------the 4 seasons in your
year are duck, deer, crawish and Mardi Gras".
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