I mentioned this before but I want again to throw out ideas
so maybe someone will think it’s interesting and actually do it. I work now in Eunice and ideas that I have in
mind really strike me because Eunice is a tourist town. All you see is Acadian, Acadienne, Cajun this
and Cajun that. I like the mural that
says something like Eunice is the gateway to the Cajun prairie. That kinda makes sense. Go down to Crowley to see a lot of Acadian
descendants, because Eunice is filled with French and Québécois
descendants. They, just like Ville
Platte and Mamou, have no museum or anything to showcase the area’s majority history
and ancestry.
Children’s book set in Fort Toulouse featuring a little
Fontenot or Brignac girl in some sort of adventure. She moves with her family to Louisiana and
settles around Opelousas, Grand Prairie or Ville Platte.
Novel based on the first Ortego showing his life in Spain
and then as a soldier in the Spanish army in Colonial Louisiana. He has adventures in Pensacola and then settles
down around Chicot to raise cattle.
A grand epic on the Guillory family. Book would show Simon Guillory living in
France, going to Quebec and then the life of his descendants in Mobile and
Louisiana.
Military life of the Fontenots and then as cowboys raising
cattle in Colonial Louisiana.
These are examples of the material a person can use. The area’s history is fresh material and
interesting. It could sell. The usual themes could be used but in a
different setting with different groups.
And the great thing about it would be that these people were real and
they would represent the area realistically. I
worked in libraries and bookstores.
Historical novels are read.
Historical romances are very popular and Western novels are too.