After long admiring this Caddo Parish mansion, Susan Cashman made it her own.

Looking back, I must have believed life would always be like my first weekend at the river.It was July 1990, approximately six weeks after my future husband and I met on a Florida beach. In honor of my first visit…

Lafayette’s new theaterFollowing four years of delays, the theater portion of the Acadiana Center for the Arts is at last under construction in downtown Lafayette.For the surrounding performing arts community, this means the availability of a smaller location where music,…

Bayou Fuselier meets Bayou Teche at Arnaudville. It has done so at that location for centuries.That’s not all the meeting that goes on in the town, which is split between St. Landry and St. Martin parishes. There is a burgeoning…

Louisiana Life is looking for stories about the place where you live told, in your words. Tell us about characters, incidents and other anecdotes. Tell us what you think is a good story about your hometown. All entrants are subject…

Moon Griffon is the anti-radio guy. If you don’t believe it, check out his radio show, which he proudly opens with the greeting “How y’all are?” popularized by the late Cajun comedian Justin Wilson.It’s not the smooth, refined or grammatically…

Louisiana Lakes Edition

Exploring the Eastern Gulf Coast

A guide to festivities around the state. MAY – JUNE

LOUISIANA-GROWNDaisiesOne humid spring night when I was pushing 3 or 4, I aimed my finger skyward and asked, agape, “What’s that?” My mother then introduced me to the fat platinum moon that beamed over New Orleans in an indigo sky.…

PROFILEThrill boxWatching the Louisiana State University Tigers play baseball during spring in the openness of Alex Box Stadium reminds me of Mardi Gras. There are plenty of revelers; the purple and gold of the Tiger uniforms dot the green field…

WORTH WATCHINGOrphan train(see related story, pg. 12)Between the years 1854 and 1929, as a means to eliminate overcrowding at the Catholic-run New York Foundling Hospital, more than 150,000 orphans were sent via train across the United States. Accompanied by nuns and…

Regional Reports From Across the State

Regional Reports From Across the State

Alabama's Seaside Treasures

Amongst my dad’s favorite country adages is this gem: “You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can’t pick your friend’s nose.” For this reason, “you pick” remained a foreign concept to me for years…

Art on the Acadian Prairie