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TEXAS Interregional Meet / Cajun Tour
The Cadillac LaSalle Club
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Gulf
Coast Region
Proudly Presents…
The Texas
InterRegional Meet & Cajun Tour ~ ~ ~ Lafayette, LoUiSiAna May 19 ~ 21, 2005 Scheduled Activities Tour of Tabasco Manufacturing Plant Avery Island & Jungle Gardens – The Shadows on the Teche Pontoon Boat Swamp Tour of the Atchafalaya Basin St. John Cathedral, Museum, Oak & Cemetery Friday Evening Fais Do Do - (Street Dance w/Cajun Music)~ ~ ~ Join us for Good Food - Good Fun and Good Fellowship… all with a Cajun Flair'Laissez le bon temps rouler' For information and registration visit our registration server or KARowald@duanemorris.comOverview of Scheduled Events Thursday, May 19, 2005 5:15 PM Cocktail Reception - Hospitality Room
Best Western ~ Hotel Acadiana
Join your host - Cadillac LaSalle Club - Gulf Coast Region, Inc. - at our hospitality room beginning at 5:15 PM. You will be cordially greeted by local members and introduced to regional culinary favorites, including; a seafood medley (No, not Duane or Jenny!) of hors d' oeuvres, Crab Boulet's, & Crawfish Samplers.A special treat is in order as Paul Huval presents his trademark 'Pork & Sausage Jambalaya' which is a local favorite. Join us for these scrumptious local dishes and your libation of choice - compliments, of course, by the Cadillac LaSalle Club - Gulf Coast Region. Tour Registration until 8:00 PM will be accommodated. Open Bar till 6:30 PM, thereafter, Cash Bar. Dinner on your own, If you're still hungry!
~ ~ ~ ~ Friday, May 20, 2005
Leave Hotel around 8:15 AM for Avery Island (Tabasco Tour - Jungle Gardens)and/or The Shadows on the Teche
Two different caravans will depart around 8:15 AM to take in one of Southwest Louisiana's best-known attractions. The Shadows on the Teche, Circa 1831 is one of the best representations of antebellum homes in the south. Tours are available every (3) hrs. so sign up early. Tours are limited to (12) persons, per tour. Allow (2) hrs for tour and welcome center. After tour, travel to Avery Island (8 miles) for lunch
under the oaks @ 12:30 PM.
Tabasco Manufacturing Plant Avery Island
Home to the world famous Tabasco peppers. The Tabasco Manufacturing facility on Avery Island is a history lesson in itself. Nestled high on the island, it is but one of the islands four major industries. Namely; Oil & Gas, Fishing & Trapping, Salt Mining and Tabasco operations make up the majority of the Island's income.
Visit the Tabasco Country Store for souvenirs and a sample of the Island’s best! A must see while in south Louisiana.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Jungle Gardens (Simultaneous & in conjunction with the Tabasco & The Shadows Tours)
Also located on Avery Island and operated by the Mc Ilhenny family, Jungle Gardens is home to many species of plant, wild life and migratory foul from all over the world. Its lush foliage and sleepy lagoons embrace the tranquil setting one experiences while touring these spectacular gardens. Hundreds of Live Oak trees grace the landscape and bamboo this size of baseball bats lines the 155 plus Acre Estate.
Truly one of the most spectacular collection of flora in Louisiana.
Lunch served at 12:30 PM under the Live Oaks(Bring those fine chariots and shiny rides for a photo opportunity extraordinary!) ~ ~ ~ ~ 5:30 PM Car Show ,Crawfish Boil & Cajun Fais Do-Do
Dance the Cajun Two-Step & eat dem Bugs & check out them cars! Saturday, May 21, 2005 9:15 AM
Leave Hotel around 9:15 AM for an exciting day in the swamp! Our first stopwill be McGee's Landing situated on beautiful Lake Henderson named after the small community just east of world famous Breaux Bridge, LA which is noted as the Crawfish Capital of the World.
Lake Fausse Pointe At Sunset – St Martin Parish – Atchafalaya Basin
Pontoon Boat Swamp Tour
Depart from McGee's Landing at 10:45 AM for a first hand view of Henderson Swamp, a water enclosed estuary situated on the western edge of the Atchalafaya Basin. You will be treated to a Cajun buffet with all the popular local dishes of fried catfish, fried shrimp & oysters and a 'slap yo momma' Crawfish Etoufee by David Allemond and staff.
(Note: Vessels are U.S. Coast Guard Approved - NOT AN AIRBOAT!)
Pontoon Boat at McGee’s Landing – Lake Henderson Atchafalaya Welcome Center Butte LaRose Around 1:45 PM , after a scrumptious lunch and a leisurely drive along the west bank of the Atchafalaya Levee system, we will be escorted by Sheriff's Deputies compliments of St Martin Parish Sheriff, Ronnie Theroit as we make our way to the Atchafalaya Welcome Center located at the Butte LaRose exit on IH-10.
Atchafalaya Welcome Center @ I-10 Butte LaRose Exit
Finishing off our tour for the day will be a trip east on IH-10 over the elevated portion of The Swamp Expressway to the Whiskey River turn-a-round. The Caravan will then proceed back to our host Hotel so we may make preparations for the Awards Banquet at 7:00 PM.
Interstate 10 Eastbound (Elevated over Henderson
Swamp) Awards Banquet & Evening Program
Bon Appetite'
Starting the evening festivities at 7:00 PM in the Evangeline Room we will have a cash bar as we welcome and introduce our guests from North Texas Region and Alamo Region. We will also welcome the local chapter of the Antique Automobile Club of America and their officers, members and our sponsors. After 30-45 minutes of visiting and we will start our evening Awards Banquet and Buffet Supper.(Program Provided at Banquet) Sleep Tight! >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Travel Day Sunday , May 22 , 2005
Other Local Attractions
(St John @ Vermilion Streets)
St John’s Cathedral Oak & Church Downtown - Lafayette ~ ~ ~ ~
St John’s Cathedral To those you who wish to participate in a special photo-opt, we invite you meet at 9:00 AM for a 20 minuet trip to Grand Coteau as we place our cars in one of the most beautiful settings in south Louisiana. Situated on the campus of The Sacred Heart Academy is the oak alley known as Oakdale. Please contact Kent or Will to have your car included in this exciting photo shoot that will, no doubt, be a lasting memento to your trip to Cajun Country.
Oakdale @ The Sacred Heart Academy (Grand Coteau, LA)
Mais, we hope you passed a good time while in Cajun Country, sha!
Boudreaux says .. ‘don’t tell dem Yankee’s bout da mud bugs .,.. dey may take dem all home wid em’
Welcome to Acadiana And Cajun Country Authors note: This is the first of a series of articles and select stories about the Bayou State of Louisiana. W.Y. Lamb As one to often reflect back in time to a slower pace, I reminisce about my childhood in a place known for its exceptionally good food, friendliest folks on earth, rough and tumble politics, beautiful people, and a 'la Joie de Vivre' - Joy of Life … that is the local mantra. The time was in the early Fifties and the place was what is now known as Acadiana. More specifically, it was in a small town (32,000) in Southwest Louisiana that the locals pronounced "Laf-e-yet". It has even been called by other names such as ‘Vermilionville’ as it was first known by. Some of the more colorful characters during the hectic times of the oil boom in the early '80's even referred to it as 'Lay Flat, America'! Hmm …. I wonder how that came to be. 
 Official State Musical Instrument Louisiana's official musical instrument, the diatonic accordion, commonly known as the "Cajun" accordion, was adopted in 1990. Although the Chinese invented basic reed instruments, it is generally accepted that the Germans, in about the 1830's successfully developed accordions with brass reeds. The diatonic accordion with a single row of reeds and buttons was the very first accordion developed, then later this built up to a single row of buttons with four rows of reeds, in three octaves. These then are particular types of diatonic accordions called melodeons that are keyed like harmonicas. The melodeons began to arrive in Louisiana via German immigrants during the mid 1870's and were slow to become utilized by Acadians (Cajuns) because they were in keys in which fiddlers had difficulty returning or finding the notes. But when the C and D keyed melodeons came along and because they could be heard across the dance floor (with no electricity then, fiddlers could not always be heard across a noisy dance floor) by 1910 to 1920, a happy marriage with fiddlers occurred.  ‘Cajun Accordion, a.k.a., ‘Abbeville Air Compressor’ Then after WW II Cajuns could not obtain these melodeons because all (except one) accordion factories in Germany ended up within the East German State behind the Communist wall. So Cajuns, because of a love of music and a sharp dance beat which these melodeons can produce, began to make copies of the German models themselves. We now have scores of builders in South Louisiana who builds the very best melodeons in the world. (Image and text courtesy of Larry Miller.] PBS
show on English features Mamou, Louisiana "Do
You Speak American?" is scheduled to air at 7 p.m. Jan. 5
on PBS. Public
Broadcasting System http://www.pbs.org Driskill Mountain, Louisiana Elevation 535 feet Bonnie and Clyde's Last Highpoint Located in Bienville Parish, northern Louisiana 11 miles south of Arcadia Latitude 32 degree, 25 minutes North; Longitude 92 degree 54 minutes West >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Some of Louisiana’s Claim to Fame... Louis Armstrong musician, New Orleans Geoffrey Beene fashion designer, Haynesville Truman Capote writer, New Orleans Kitty Carlisle singer, actress, New Orleans Van Cliburn concert pianist, Shreveport Michael De Bakey heart surgeon, Lake Charles Fats Domino musician, New Orleans Louis Moreau Gottschalk pianist, composer, New Orleans Bryant Gumbel TV newscaster, New Orleans Lillian Hellman playwright, New Orleans Al Hirt trumpeter, New Orleans Mahalia Jackson gospel singer, New Orleans Dorothy Lamour actress, New Orleans Jerry Lee Lewis singer, Ferriday Huey P. Long politician, Winnfield Wynton Marsalis musician, New Orleans Jelly Roll Morton jazz musician, composer, New Orleans Huey Newton black activist, New Orleans Paul Prudhomme chef, Opelousas Cokie Roberts journalist, New Orleans Kordell Stewart football player, Marrero Ray Walston actor, New Orleans Edward Douglas White jurist, Lafourche Parish YOU MIGHT BE A CAJUN IF… Watching "Wild Kingdom" inspires you to write a cookbook. You won't eat a lobster because you think it's a crawfish on steroids. You take a bite of 5-alarm Texas chili and reach for some Tabasco. You pass up a chance to meet the president to go to the Crawfish Festival in Breaux Bridge. Your children's favorite bedtime story begins with, "First you make a roux..." You're asked in school to name the four seasons and you reply, "Onyons, celery, bell peppers, and garlic." You think the "Fab Four" are "Paul Prudhomme, John Folse, Justin Wilson, and A.J. Smith". You let your black coffee cool and find it has gelled. You describe a complete breakfast as some deer sausage, grits and a yard of boudin. None of your favorite vacation spots are north of Abbeville. You sit down to eat boiled crawfish and someone says, "Don't eat the dead ones" and you know what they mean. You refer to Louisiana winters as "gumbo weather" You gave up Tabasco for Lent. You learned bourre' the hard way - holding yourself upright in the crib. You don't know the real names of your close friends - only their nicknames. You can look at a rice field and can tell how much gravy it'll take for that much rice. Your high school's rendition of the national anthem begins with, "Jambalaya, crawfish pie, filet gumbo" You stand up when they play "Jolie Blon." You consider Breaux Bridge the state capitol. You think the Mason-Dixon line is at Bunkie. Used with permission …. copyright © James T. Ehler 1990 - 2004 |
