LOUISIANA'S Creole Families Bastille Day Heritage, Mass & Honorees Summer Festival in Ville Platte

We're going tomorrow see this.  Should be good.  Hopefully a museum can be built one day showcasing the area's history. More books, I'm sure, will be written and maybe possibly fictional literature based on the area's heritage. Might sound pointless to write fiction but it does wonders for the mind. It would be good to have one celebrity endorse the area. Someone to come out and say how interesting these rural Creoles are.  That might get local people interested in themselves.  I don't know.  That might be a bad idea. Anyway, look forward to seeing all that.  My Dad has been telling us our heritage was Creole since we've been kids.  His parents told him the same when he was a kid.  2014 and there is a festival celebrating that fact.  It's significant and John LaFleur and Gene Buller and all them did a good job.  

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FREE BOOTH/VENDOR SPACES, FREE ADMISSION TO EVERYONE! WHERE & WHEN TO GO? July 12, Saturday at 10:00 am-3:00 pm at Ville Platte's Civic Center Pavilion, 704 N. Soileau St.  

All we ask is that you buy anyone or several of our several festival gifts to help us to continue to make this historic and cultural festival FREE!

We are proud to announce our unique French Creole designer T-shirts w our historic new logo w/ our backside motto and 'definitions' for all to learn 'at a glance' about who we are, and who we are not! This shirt has all us 'covered' -the Indians, the French, the Africans, the Spanish & yes, even the Acadians! 

The Louisiana Creole Families Cultural & Education Society's chief mission is to promote Louisiana's true cultural history and to perpetuate our shared Creole French & Metis heritage, food, language and social traditions through lectures, festival programs, books, travel and souvenir products. 

This designer T-shirt is one of several historic items to be seen and sold at the Creole Families Bastille Day Heritage 2014 & Mass on July 12, Saturday at 10:00 am-3:00 pm at Ville Platte's Civic Center Pavilion, 704 N. Soileau St.  

-Opening ceremonies begin promptly at 10:00 am w/ Bienvenu by Mayor Jennifer Vidrine & President Gene Buller

-Holy mass w/ Fr. Jason Vidrine 

-Creole French Families blessing by Fr. Richard Vidrine 

-Indian blessing by Chief John Mayeux, Avoyelles Nation

-Annual public address by John laFleur II: "500 Years of Culture: Louisiana's Creole French & Metis People, Language & Culture"

-Special Guests-honorees Salute & Bastille Day champagne toast lead by Dr. Charles Fontenot & President Gene Buller!

-Creole barbecue lunch, family fun 'n " Petit Coureurs de Bois Grandpas & Grandsons/daughters piggy back, wagon & footrace" 

-Our Lady of the Hat Creole Belles summertime hat competition

-Louisiana Author's Table

-Afternoon concert with DJ The Breadman & Billy Johnson & the Creoles
  Puis, oueh, on va danser, cher!

We're also proud to announce the production of a wonderful new handbook: Louisiana's Creole French People, Language, Food & Culture: 500 Years of Culture by author John laFleur II, who has assigned this book to the benefit of the Creole Families Education & Cultural Society Inc. This book is now available on Amazon.com and BookRix.com as an e-book for only $4.99! 

All sales go to benefit this truly humanitarian educational society.

A book that all teachers, tour guides and educated people of pride have long awaited, it will be soon be available in softcover.

This remarkable little book has been written in simple English so that even high school students can read it easily. It carefully explains things like what is a "Cajun?"  

And, of course a question so many have is, "What is a "Creole?" Did our Creole French language & culture exist in Louisiana before the Acadians got here? 

Is "Haitian" Creole the same as "Louisiana French Creole?" Why is our 'French' different from modern French? And, is our French, 'bad' French?

This remarkable little book has won the respect of many highly professional scholars from all around the world and will also provides honest answers and research sources for further research for those who want to 'dig' deeper into the true history of Louisiana's earliest culture & people; us, the French Creoles!

Also available will be souvenir copies of the beautiful historical document known as Senate Resolution #30 which was sponsored by Senator Eric LaFleur. Approved by the Louisiana Senate last year declaring  July 14, Bastille Day (French Independence Day), Louisiana's French Creole Families heritage day! 

This day celebrates freedom, equality and brotherhood for all mankind and will be made available for donations of only $5.00!

The Creole Families Education & Cultural Society is now taking orders atcreolebookstore@hotmail.com for the Creole French designer T-shirts, souvenir Resolution SR 30, and our new cultural handbook, Louisiana's Creole French People...  all of which will be available at Creole Families Bastille Day Festival on July 12, 10:00 am at the Ville Platte Civic Center Pavilion, 704 N. Soileau St!

Suggested designer T-shirt donations: 
$12.00 sm. $25.00 med. & lg. $35.00 xxx lg.

These beautiful designer shirts come in summer white with the 5 color logo which acknowledges all of Louisiana's historic founding ethnicities, who together created our remarkable and unique language, food and culture!

Come Celebrate ALL of US & YOURSELVES -yes, our true culture, faith and all of our people as we remarry Louisiana's true history to our shared pride! 
Call 337.418.1506 or or email: creolebookstore@hotmail.com to order of or free vendor booth space!