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Recollections of Pierre Part and the Belle River /

Title
Recollections of Pierre Part and the Belle River / Geneve Daigle Cavalier and Tre' Michael Caballero.
Author
Cavalier, Geneve Daigle,
Publication
Charleston, South Carolina : Arcadia Publishing, [2017]

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Additional Authors
Caballero, Tre' Michael,
Description
127 pages : illustrations, portraits; 24 cm
Summary
"Pierre Part and the shores of Belle River were inhabited by Acadian French-speaking people. They learned from their ancestors how to live off the land, and if more was harvested or bunted than their families could ear, they gave the extra food to their neighbors. There each family resided in a small house, or a cabin’eau in French. It was typically a one-room structure with stakes (pier), walls (bar d'eau), and a shingle roof. Located at one end of the house, a fireplace was made of timber held together with mud and moss. Commonly, the home's frame was constructed of cypress boards, but some people also included cane reeds, palmetto, and shorter cypress boards to make the structure stronger. Some families would relocate from Bayou Lafourche to the swamps of the beautiful Belle River, where they had family or knew someone so that they could trap. When trapping season was over, they would return to their settlement." -- From cover.
Series Statement
Images of America
Uniform Title
Images of America.
Subjects
Contents
Introduction -- Churches and events -- School days -- Industry -- Honoring our men -- Community establishments and remembrance -- Simple times.
ISBN
  • 9781467127974
  • 1467127973
LCCN
2017957369
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library