Hello Pamela How are you doing today?

Damn

I'm Lafayette Louisiana but I live in North Dakota now in Lafayette is a very

Should move back

Laura and Delta? Yeah, that was a fun year.

Down the bayou that's called "making the vay-yay" (sp).

Your from lafayette your cajun lite hahah

@@troubleshooterr11d76 ever heard of PooPoo Broussard? That's me.

​@@jamescarrier3372 The best Cajun Christmas Story ever told was Byyou!! Mais Yeah!!!

@@timothylanglois4723 "mais, I don't know what it is dis time of year, when it gets cold like dat......"

You need to post a list of all the great places to eat. The little hole in the wall places can be the best.

President Jefferson set aside a live oak preserve just outside Pensacola just for ship building

The Granddaddy of all live oaks is Angel Oak near Charleston, S.C. The tree is 65 feet high with a circumference of 25.5 feet, shading an area of 17,000 square feet. It is approximately 400 years old, older than the USA, obviously. I've seen it and it is magnificent.

Thanks for the info!

@@CosmicStargoat Thanks for the post on the Angel Oak I looked at the pictures amazing.

Ain't they beautiful. I've got two of them, and I prize them highly.

Went there today. You're right, absolutely gorgeous. That video will be up next week.

@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip That would be very interesting! ;)

​@@JoeandNicsRoadTripThe state parks are nice in Louisiana, some are like camping cities!

Thank you for the great comment.

@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip not everyone was part of the oil boom! This area has Greater Ties to the farming and seafood industry. The soybean, sugar cane, rice and crawfish farming and seafood industries are the economic hubs of the country. The oil and gas industry kinda disabled the lifeline of this part of the country and it went boom because the taxes for these corporations were all leaving for Texas better tax breaks in that state for oil and gas corporations. Those corporations came here did their damage and left Louisiana to clean up their mess just remember the Deep Water Horizon catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico😢💔😢 Seacor Power etc. etc.💔

@@snnetteachexnayder63 exactly! Oil and gas is what’s killing this planet and those corporations KNEW SINCE THE 70s!!!!!!!! 😡 😡 😡

When OPEC was voted in??

@@stephenbrand5661 I think the one that mentioned O.P.E.C. Was referring to other countries voted to become the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries was meaning to say for other countries not Louisiana (for that matter not America) and that is what was referred to ruining Lafayette Louisiana in it’s financial despair. 🧐

Those pilings sound like the ones that were used to build Amsterdam.

Good to know

Stilts

That was interesting , thank you from 🇬🇧

Would be better building hat we call in Australia - a Queensland home!

Man that sucks. Hopefully things will be better from now on for you. We will be going to those areas before winter is over. Looking forward to it.

We can shield from the winds but we can't escape water 🌊 I have seen homes built high on pillers , that didn't look to safe , and the surge takes the house right off those pillars. Do you still live in that area or did the storm move you and family ? I live in Sarasota , and we feel blessed that we did not get the surge , because we were far enough north of Ian coming into Ft Myers.

It's hard for me to get my head around a 31ft. surge, absolutely mind boggling. I'm not sure how people can recover or if they do with that kind of horrendous event.

I'm in Livingston Parish also. Saw Katrina go thru as well as the flood of 2016. I had never seen water rise as fast as it did in 2016. We were flooded out too.

@@robertajones6311 North Baton Rouge flooded as well. 100 year flood. Also the I-12 dam didn't help matters either in East Baton Rouge and Livingston Parish.

Thank you, GW!!

I'm 100% Cajun and .. yep you are spot on.... less today but when I was a kid and a teen... many of the folks in true Cajun country... St. Martinville, Breaux Bridge, Henderson... didn't speak much English at all.. unless they had to.

@@abelincoln3261 Yep, my Grandma was a Michel from Dularge, and she spoke fluent Cajun French. She taught my Dad a little, but they were in New Orleans at the time (Dad was born in 1927) and there was no one else to speak French with. And in the early to mid 20th Century, it was discouraged to speak French in public schools, and the language was nearly lost. Children were even spanked in school for speaking French among themselves. CODOFIL has some done some work to keep Cajun French alive. My Stepdad was from Point aux Chenes and his entire family spoke Cajun French as well as English. I grew up in Houma.

“Cajun French “ is French.. just has some Native American words in it for the things they didn’t have the word for in France. No deference from what’s spoken in southern France And what they speak here. You cannot tell the difference.. even by people in southern France

@@drubabineaux8772 I want to first thank you for having the interest to respond / replay. I was born and raised in Cajun Country... I can assure you, Cajun French is not French with Native Indigenous Language (s) : words " mixed in. First of all, there were several tribes, of which they would not have spoke the same languages nor used the same dialect. Example, the heart of Cajun Country is located in and around the surrounding area with the center being St. Martinville. The Choctaw were the dominant tribe.. yet only one of several tribes.. that would have lived within the boundaries and surrounding areas.. along the bayous. And across the plains. That said, French was not the only language nor the only nationality of the settlers. the first settlers... For the sake of keeping this as sort as possible... The Cajun French spoken in Cajun Country today is just about the same as it was in the mid 1700's That said, The area was settled by French Creoles, Acadians ( From Nova Scotia )_ as well as settlers from Spain... Most either are not aware or they simply over look the area was first settled ( colonized ) by Spain... anyway.... My point summed up is... Cajun French is a slang mostly that uses both French and French Creole and the melting pot of others... combined.. There isn't really much material that covers this subject.. least not fully researched material.. Mostly it is like mush of our history.. a mixed bag of a lot of different theories many of which are incorrect ! Trust me I was born and raised there, both of my parents are from two of the first settlers to the area in the 1700s... being two of the largest land owners at one time in the entire Louisiana purchase area.. so yeah seriously.. I can assure you.. My roots are as deep as they get there.. So let me sum it up.. If you have an interest in the history of The Cajuns... make sure to look up French Creoles / Cajuns / and no creole is not a mixed race.. between Africans and Anglos... so make sure to find the correct material so you get the correct history.. My passion has always been history, genealogy, political science !

Thank you for this, Barry!

Thank you, Lyle!

Wow, that's incredible.

@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip My mother had 3 siblings (2 are still alive). All spoke French before English, but when they started attending school, the teachers forced them to speak English and treated them poorly for speaking French. My mom recalls a teacher rapping her knuckles with a ruler if she spoke French. Codofil (Council for the Development of French in Louisiana) was created to try to support and grow the francophone communities in Louisiana.

Tell um like it is.

Same here. All of my grandparents had the same experience. Scolded in school because they couldn’t speak English and did not teach their children French because of their experience. My two oldest children were in French Immersion in Lafayette Schools for a coupe of years, but they left that to participate in the GT curriculum. I learned French when I got the opportunity to go to language school in the military.

@@robertleonard6806 Très bien.

Thank you, Alexandra!

Hello Sarah How are you doing today?

my grandfather owns triple a mini storage which are storage units in abbeville and the go mini storage containers. the business is on south state street, the same road that the court house is on, you just go further south.

Cool! :)

Me too! Love that movie.

mais yeah der sha you got dat ting right der boo

@@timothylanglois4723 "Vicky Valencourt showed me her boobies and I liked them too!"

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Thank you for watching, Jennifer!!

It was a rice dryer and mill I am from Abbeville but I live in erath now

Thank you, Rajeev. :)

Thank you for that, R M!!

Thank you, RE!

That was my movie the blob from tales from the crypt

Thank you for that, Waski. :)

That is one of the main reasons these videos are so valuable! We will probably never get to visit these areas ourselves! This is our heritage though and it's important to see it! Thanks!

Tourism is actually quite healthy here in Acadiana. What you're seeing in this video is great, but it's quite literally a teenth of these cities, and although small, just a sliver of what Acadiana as a whole has to offer. This isn't just me brimming with local hubris...you can honestly be born and raised in Acadiana and continue to learn mind blowing things your entire life. For instance, the shot of Downtown Crowley shows the Grand Opera House of the South. If you've ever heard of author Laura Ingalls of "Little House On the Prairie" fame...she was real. Her daughter Rose Wilder, was part of the 1st graduating class of Crowley High School...she graduated on the stage of the Crowley Opera House. There's a picture of her and the graduating class of 1904 in one of the downstairs bathrooms in that building. There's SO much culture here that isn't something most lifelong residents know or even talk about. There are quite literally dozens of historical accuracies such as this in, believe it or not, every place shown in this video. Come on down some time, we'd love to have you!

Because it's hot. I moved here from W. Texas. Texas has nothing on the hot like South Louisiana. You can forget enjoying the cooler mornings or evenings because the mosquitoes will suck ya dry. It is beautiful here tho

Thank you for watching, T M!!

@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip Where you from and who you're Daddy?

Thank you for the kind words, Robert.

It's a great little town.

Same thing in Basile Louisiana and Eunice may JESUS keep you HOLY SPIRIT guide you

Thanks for watching, Elizabeth. :)

Thank you, Was!!

Hey, I live in Erath(the town at the start) I’m familiar with every place in this video. You won’t really find people walking around or using bikes because of the sheer distance you need to travel to get anywhere. Also the town centers are very walkable but there are no business or anything really that would make someone want to walk there. Small businesses are what should be making these towns places you want to live but sadly their having a tough time staying open. 1:39 you can barley see “t-bobs” seafood. That’s my grandfathers crawfish shop it’s really sad it wasn’t flashy enough to receive a glance from a passerby. (It’s not open at this time of year anyway) Inside there is so much culture, family, and just plan cajun mementos. I personally feel as if the overall economy dealt business in this area the worst hand. In short, business are what make places “walkable” that is why you don’t see people out and about, even though there is some walking infrastructure.

You might be right, Jimmy. Thank you for the kind words!!

Cajun is the contraction of Acadia (now Nova Scotia) from which the Acadian colonists were expelled between 1755 and 1763. I was born and raised in Abbeville. Loved the video.

Hello Dear How are you doing today?

Thank you for watching, Charleene!

I visited Baton Rouge and did a video. It's on the channel. And you're right, I liked the town and really enjoyed exploring the downtown.

Thank you! Will do! :)

Thsank you, Brenda! :)

Me too!!

Thank you, Annette!

@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip if you are still down south Louisiana You and your wife need to check out Rip Van Winkle Gardens in New Iberia there is history there also about salt domes that caved in from the lake and swallowed up parts of the land

Thank you, Sylvia!

Thank you, Graham!