a ST. MARTIN PARISH article

Cultures of Acadiana
a look at the French, Cajun, Creole, and Native American cultures of south Louisiana
(a project of Carencro High School (721 West Butcher Switch Road, Lafayette, LA  70507)

Lafayette (LA) Daily Advertiser, July 29, 1997

FURTHER READING ABOUT ST. MARTIN PARISH

by Jim Bradshaw


  • A Narrative History of Breaux Bridge, Once Called "La Pointe," Grover Bees, Attakapas Historical Association, lafayette 1976.
  • Atchafalaya Swamp Life: Settlement and Folk Occupations, Malcolm L. Comeaux, School of Geoscience, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, 1972.
  • Breaux Bridge Centennial of St. Bernard's Church, Roger Baudier, September 1947.
  • Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, Devastation and Beauty, Kenneth P. Delcambre, Litho USA, March 1978.
  • Cajun Families of the Atchafalaya. Their Ways and Words, Greg Guirard, 1989.
  • Creoles of Color in the Bayou Country, Carl A. Brasseaux and Claude F. Oubre, University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, 1994.
  • Evangeline, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
  • First Facts About Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, Kenneth P. Delcambre and Claude J. Kennison, Litho USA, March 1988.
  • High Water, Low Water, A Story About the Lower Atchafalaya Basin, Msgr. R. J. Cobeil.
  • Life in the Atchafalaya Swamp, D. Gail Abbey, The Lafayette Natural History Museum, Lafayette, 1959.
  • Lords of the Basin, History of the Lost Village, Atchafalaya, Kenneth L. Delcambre, 1988.
  • Records of Attakapas District. Louisiana, Vol.III, St. Martin Parish, 1808-1860, Mary Elizabeth Sanders, 1974.
  • Strange True Stories of Louisiana, George W. Cable. Pelican Publishing Co., Gretna, 1994 (reprint).
  • Teche News, Centennial Edition, St. Martinville, April 2, 1986.
  • The Bayou Chene Story, A History of the Atchafalaya Basin and Its People, Gladys Calhoon Case, The Harlo Press, Detroit, 1973.
  • The Founding of New Acadia, The Beginnings of Acadian Life in Louisiana, 1765-1803, Carl A. Brasseaux, LSU Press, Baton Rouge, 1987.
  • The Town That Crawfish Built, A History of Henderson, Louisiana, Marjorie P. Esman, Vaapa Inc. Baton Rouge, 1984.

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