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Natchitoches, an hour southeast of Shreveport, is the state's oldest European settlement and a haven of Cajun history and culture. It was in nearby Melrose that author Kate Chopin lived and gathered material for her colorful collection, Bayou Folk, and numerous other short stories in 1894. Today the Melrose Plantation Arts and Crafts Festival, an annual June event benefiting Chopin's home and library, draws artists from across the nation and several thousand visitors to the Natchitoches area...
...lower Mississippi is the greatest freshwater coastal marshland in North America, a resplendently prolific nursery for fish, shellfish, furbearers and reptiles and a wintering haven for a third of North America's waterfowl. The saltwater invasion has cost the Cajun economy, rooted in fishing and trapping and hunting, dearly. But payment will soon be demanded farther north. Hydrologists are now proposing formerly unthinkable ideas--such as breaching the levees from New Orleans to the river's mouth--if only to spread enough silt to slow the Gulf's encroachment on the city. Even if that's done (it would probably...
...stain of sin, to Baton Rouge, which is less inclined to let the bon temps rouler. Even if Edwards walks, he'll have little time to throw away much cash. He and the state insurance commissioner are defendants in another corruption case that waits on deck. Can the Cajun fox dodge two bullets in one hunting season? If not, they're going to have some of the best poker games in jailhouse history...
...Minn. Stephan, between bantering and chuckling, confided that his favorite on the menu was the blackened catfish (prepared fresh in the galley below, unlike the reheated frozen food we had eaten on the Lake Shore Limited). While not up to the best of New Orleans cuisine, it was real Cajun cooking. Lesson No. 3: Train food usually beats plane food...
...ENTERTAINMENT] Cajun fiddler Doug Kershaw, gospel singer Irma Thomas, Peanuts characters...