As Acadiana youth grew up in the region in the 1920s and 1930s, most were discouraged from openly speaking French. Their family members had been shunned for using the language and didn’t want children ...
JENNINGS, La. (AP) - Two Jefferson Davis Parish men’s dream of a radio station dedicated to providing a special place to the local French-language Cajun music is a reality with the launch of Cajun ...
There's a little radio station in south Louisiana. It's been on the air for nearly 70 years, doing everything it can to keep alive a dying language. That's Cajun French. On Saturday mornings, it ...
The Louisiana Legislature is recognizing the town of Welsh as the home of "A Dictionary of the Cajun Language." Published in 1984, the book's author, the Rev. Msgr. Jules Daigle was determined to ...
Every Thursday evening, a group of about 10 students gathers at Houma's Bayou Terrebonne Waterlife Museum with workbooks and hefty language dictionaries. They practice speaking to each other in local ...
ERATH — It was French that attracted the Acadians to Louisiana. After years of imprisonment, Joseph Beausoleil Broussard brought his band of Acadians to the West Indies and then followed his people's ...
Parlez vous Cajun? If you think you do, or if you wish you could, speak and understand the nuances of the Cajun dialect, you can check out what is going on at the Martha Sowell Utley Memorial Library ...
BATON ROUGE — Need to brush up on your Cajun French before a trip to Acadiana? There's no better source than "A Dictionary of the Cajun Language" by the late Rev. Jules O. Daigle, and there's no ...
Mary Grace Ellerbee, a freelance collaborative pianist from Zachary, is the first recipient of the Everett G. Powers Fund for Creativity Award, the Arts Council of Baton Rouge announced Jan. 30.
A Cajun radio station in South Louisiana has been broadcasting for 69 years. It's preserving the culture and the tradition of broadcasting live... 1050 KVPI is keeping the French Cajun language and ...
Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin. Copyright 2024 NPR A Cajun radio station in South Louisiana has been broadcasting for 69 years. It's ...