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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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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.

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Images of America

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Images of America.

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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