Word: bayous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crooked, says one of the brand-new gags, he had to be screwed into his grave. To send his grinning ghost into ectospasms, cinemaddicts into delicious shivers, Uncle's post-mortem instructions command his loving heirs to foregather at nightfall in his gloomy mansion amongst the bayous, where they can be scared out of such wits as they possess after being left out of his will. The frolic is furthered by a rubber-masked murderer...
...vacations that led everywhere: to picnic groves along the Missouri, where the sun coming through the cottonwood and maple gives them a coppery, luminous glow; to ranches in Wyoming, where the Sweetwater and Clark Fork curve through the rocky canyons; to the dunes of Cape Cod and the bayous of Louisiana. It was exploratory, adventurous, inventive, inquisitive, it was the acceptance of struggle and hazard-it was anything except a resigned or a bitter acceptance of a real or a mythical fate...
...marked $5, $10, $20 and $50 bills to a man with a flashlight. The man promised "Skeegie" would be returned promptly. As that day and the next passed, the Princeton crowds grew ugly. They began going out in posses to beat the tangled Florida bushland, to comb coastal bayous, jungled keys...
...indigenous to the bayou country as Mardi Gras are pirogues (canoes dug out of cypress logs). Louisiana's first mode of transportation, pirogues are still used by Cajun and Baratarian trappers to navigate the swamps and bayous south of New Orleans. Pirogues weigh from 50 to 100 pounds, are 18 inches wide, six to 20 feet long. Among Cajuns and Baratarians (descendants of Pirate Jean Lafitte's band of buccaneers) a pirogue is a family heirloom, the result of two or three years of painstaking labor. First the tree trunk is scooped out with a mattock and fire...
...yellow fever sweeps out of the bayous and the people of New Orleans, among them Pres Dillard, begin to drop. When it comes time to remove Pres to the leper and fever colony on Lazarette Island, whence few return, Julie, strong in apparent regeneration, goes to nurse him, while his trustful Northern bride stays behind to pray for their return...