Word: acadiansâ
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Dates: during 1927-1927
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Acadians. The story of Melville illustrates the tenacity with which the people in the area now being flooded cling to their homes. Most of them are Acadians???of old French and Spanish stock, few speaking English. They are (in the words of Herbert C. Hoover) "as much like French peasants as one dot is like another." Many of them wear French peasant costumes; have their shoes peg-nailed by a community shoemaker, his last held between his knees; eat hoe-cakes of home-ground corn meal, baked over live coals on three-legged iron spiders. Unable to realize that...
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