For the first time since the pandemic, prekindergarten school Ma Petite Ecole in Frenchville held a graduation ceremony. From left are Levdon Morin, Nikita Cyr, Devaroe Dionne, Amelia Morin, Seth ...

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HALF THE HOMES SPEAK FRENCH AS THEIR FIRST LANGUAGE. >> EVERYBODY UP HERE SPEAKS FRENCH. WE ARE KNOWN FOR THE ACADIAN HERITAGE. ANTHON WHEN IT COMES TO ACADIAN FOOD,HE T PLACE TO GO IS DOLLY’S IN ...

The Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux is honoring Cajun culture next week by holding its yearly French Mass. The Diocese has held a service where both the music and the sermons are held in Cajun French since ...

A Cajun radio station in South Louisiana has been broadcasting for 69 years. It's preserving the culture and the tradition of broadcasting live music from a bar every Saturday morning. There's a ...

Every Thursday evening, a group of about 10 students gathers at Houma's Bayou Terrebonne Waterlife Museum with workbooks and hefty language dictionaries. They practice speaking to each other in local ...

Cajun artist Zachary Richard has been writing, singing and working in French for over 50 years now. For him, the language is more than a way to celebrate southwest Louisiana's unique culture — it's a ...

ERATH — It was French that attracted the Acadians to Louisiana. After years of imprisonment, Joseph Beausoleil Broussard brought his band of Acadians to the West Indies and then followed his people's ...

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