Word: bayou
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Lyle Saxon, 54, local-colorist of the Louisiana bayou country; after long illness; in New Orleans. From oft-told tales about the quadroons and mulattoes who inhabited the shifting Mississippi delta, he wove novels of romance and violence (Children of Strangers, Lafitte, the Pirate] and neo-Gothic horror stories of New Orleans-below-the-belt (Gumbo...
...goldenrod. . . . Sometimes like a fuzzy caterpillar looking in the cotton was a winding line of thick green willows and cypresses, and when the train crossed this green, running on a loud iron bridge, down its center like a golden mark on the caterpillar's back would be a bayou...
James H. ("Jimmie") Davis, ballad-singer and tunesmith (You Are My Sunshine), who serenaded the people of Louisiana into electing him governor, went fly-casting (with a bug) in a bayou near Bunkie, hooked and landed...
...liberal government of the late Huey P. Long." Jimmie Davis campaigned mostly by plugging his own sad ballads, moving around the state with his five-man hillbilly band, usually talking less than ten minutes before he went into his act. He sang and moved on, and the Bayou citizens remembered the music and something about low taxes...
When Victoria looked out of the buggy and saw the swampy bayou country for the first time, a sickening wave of emotion swept over her-at the cypresses growing from the still, dark water, the abandoned, sagging-roofed cabins, the wilderness perfumes of Louisiana that were first intoxicating and then dizzily cloying. When she first saw the gleaming white colonnades of White Cloud flashing through the grove beyond the hedges, the terraces, the live oaks trailing mournful banners of moss, her heart pounded at its ancient, mirage-like beauty...