5.12.07

Article about Evangeline Parish

Bonjour, I haven't posted anything because I've been busy. But I read this Town Talk article in March and forgot to mention it, except through emails. I think some of the quotes were tongue in cheek.
Alexandria Town Talk article on Evangeline Parish:

Short quotes from Town Talk article:

"In Evangeline Parish, probably, the French-speaking people, probably 80 percent of them came from France. And maybe 20 percent came from Canada, and they were Acadians. That's why technically we're not Cajuns," he said."

"I mean, people in St. Martinville and those places, they speak a very weird kind of French," he said, adding, "I think it's because we are French descendants, and we're not Cajuns."

Evangeline Parish French Creole Heritage

That's it for me. It's been real. I used to talk about this subject on forums and with people and several found it annoying. Evangel...