Word: bayou
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...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...
Under the towering, mossy oaks of Bayou du Large, La. they finally got around to celebrating Christmas, last Sunday. A tinseled tree glittered in the little white chapel of St. Andrew's Episcopal Mission. Children solemnly posed in a tableau of the Nativity. The young Rev. Clarence R. Haden Jr., rector of St. Matthew's Church in nearby Houma, preached a Yuletide sermon to some 100 people...
Twenty-one years ago the Episcopal rector at Houma heard about the shy folk of Bayou du Large, learned they were not Roman Catholics, had little education, no church. He started St. Andrew's Mission, taught the trappers' families how to read and write...
...Bayou du Large's people, blond and blue-eyed, are a striking contrast to the usual brunet Louisianians. Most of the villagers are of English-Scottish descent; possibly their forebears came from ships captured by Jean Lafitte's pirates in the early 19th Century. Some of the oldsters recall their parents speaking of origins "up North." The villagers drawl their words more like Kentuckians than Louisianians, use the expression "a fur piece" to describe a considerable distance. When they are not trapping, they fish...