Dispatches · Reporting from across Louisiana
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Festivals, new laws, tourism money and the culture, from four writers in four parts of the state.
Writer
Tourism and branding · 2 min readThe state owns the word. The word means "made here."Louisiana holds "Cajun" and "Louisiana Creole" as state certification marks. The test for either is where a product was made.
Vivienne FrilotNew Orleans
Culture · 2 min readThe festival in the bean fieldIn 1982 Creole Louisiana built its own stage in Plaisance. The same year, Black residents in Lafayette objected to the name going on the new arena.
Josette LemelleOpelousas
Events and oddities · 2 min readThe state of Louisiana once tried to certify the Cajun haircutIn 2006 the state asked Washington to let it certify CAJUN on everything from rice to plumbing. Washington said no.
Theo CelestineLake Charles
Records · 2 min readTwenty people in AprilThe first Acadians reached New Orleans in the spring of 1764. Here is the colony they walked into.
Raymond BellardBaton RougeNewsletter
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