"As always, Louisiana comes fully alive, from the peaceful fog of the
Bayou Teche to the manic streets of New Orleans.
"A Gentleman of
Bayou Teche." Complete Novels and Stories.
On the
Bayou Teche, a Cajun stronghold still today, Evangeline finds Gabriel's father, Basil, newly assimilated to lower Louisiana's eclectic culture.
Bayou Pipe Coating is the flagship of the Bayou Companies that began business in the early 1940's on the banks of the
Bayou Teche and is presently located at the port of Iberia in Louisiana.
In the first, "A Gentleman of
Bayou Teche," a Northern painter wants to capture the colorful spirit of rural Louisiana by portraying a local man in the imagined garb of the 'Cadian rustic, something the man, Evariste Bonamour, considers demeaning for any gentleman--Acadian or other--of the
Bayou Teche.
Deep within the cool green shadows of the
Bayou Teche lived Phillip LaDuc and his young sister, Anabelle.
1) "The
Bayou Teche is pockmarked with bubbling, moss-green lumps that very well might be knotty-headed gators submarining and cracking the surface of the caramel-colored water.
That leads into the whole idea of the ghost figure and creating that sense of
Bayou Teche and having to be kept hidden within the bayou, which makes her invisible to her culture as well as invisible to herself, because she doesn't know her historical roots.
Martinville, where the tomb of Emmeline Labiche and the ancient oak where she waited for her lover, Gabriel, stand alongside the
Bayou Teche.
Steve Landry--Catholic, Cajun, fisherman--lives in Franklin, a town that straddles the
Bayou Teche near Vermilion Bay on the Gulf.
His current release, Wail & Ride (Hyena Records) offers a dose of his Big Easy tales of life all delivered in a languid drawl that flows as slowly as the
Bayou Teche.
