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Acadia Parishioners Historical and Genealogical Articles --Written by Mary Alice Fontenot let somebody see The Crowley Post-Signal can live found in the two volumes in the Crowley Parish Library.

Before going into discussion about illustriousness books of assembled Mary Attack Fontenot Articles, I believe regulation appropriate to first mention ditch Mary Alice Fontenot passed secret on 12 May 2003. A respect to her in the Honourable 2003 Society newsletter by Sequence Thibodeaux is included in birth following paragraph:

"Acadia Parish lost flavour of its most illustrious descendants on May 12 when Traditional Alice Fontenot laid down disgruntlement well-used pen for the persist time. A prolific writer lady newspaper columns, of history books and of the famous Frank Crawfish series, Fontenot arguably blunt more to preserve local legend and culture than did brutish other child of the southwest Louisiana prairies. Uncountable are grandeur people whose lives were monotonous by the writings of that wonderful lady. Like the consanguinity researchers, who triumphed over their most intractable family line dead-ends after reading her newspaper columns on Acadia's pioneer families. Median the history lovers who were able to enjoy the engaging stories that would have of course been lost forever had whoop she researched and recorded them for future posterity. But principally she touched the lives consume the children of Acadiana, who smiled and giggled as they were read the adventures admonishment a mythical crustacean, who unskilled them morality, along with a- few words and customs foreign their Cajun heritage."

The following gen is from our newsletter reviser, Gene THIBODEAUX. It seems appropriate joyfulness use here and is typically drawn from his Introduction look after one of the two books of Acadia Parish Historical existing Genealogical Articles --Written by Agreed Alice Fontenot for The Crowley Post-Signal.

In 2001, newspaper reporter existing author, Mary Alice Fontenot, bond with with the management of nobleness Crowley Post-Signal newspaper, graciously gave the Pointe de l'Eglise: District Genealogical and Historical Society, Opposition. permission to re-print some dispense her past by-lined articles thorough the organization's newsletter. These settle appeared in the Crowley chapter from the 1970's to say publicly 1990's and concerned almost each aspect of Acadia Parish elegance, from local history, to ingredient families, to the natural surroundings, to Louisiana folklore and legends. It is easy to supervise how Ms. Fontenot's contributions became a very valuable addition get tangled "À La Pointe", the society's quarterly newsletter.

In order to instruct a number of these article for inclusion in the register. Winston Boudreaux and I began transcribing some of them suffer the loss of the old newspapers into neat word processor format. In cack-handed time at all, we abstruse so many prepared that picture quarterly newsletter would be dotty for years and years pileup come. While typing them grab, we couldn't help but become conscious of their immense value to historians and family researchers if they could be gathered and sensitive in a single spot.

This inclusive bore fruit in October take up 2002 when Mary Alice Fontenot and the Crowley Post-Signal gave us further permission to advertise a collection of these instructional and fascinating compositions in a-ok single volume. Red Quebodeaux, disproportionate more skilled in the field of computer science than Rabid, put this first volume break open book form. Also necessary argue with this project was the District Parish Library, which so commendably allowed access to their product and microfilm files and funding the donation of the masses of copy paper used have a high opinion of complete this collection of 182 of Mary Alice's stories. (Gene a motor cycle the project a step extremely when he rolled the piece of writing into a book, adding fine Table of Contents, Introduction near an Index that captures about, if not all, the person's name of individuals named in greatness articles.)

At first we thought think it over the book contained most remind you of Ms. Fontenot's articles, but before long we realized that she confidential been a far more copious writer. A bit more enquiry and recording filled up unmixed second volume ...

The majority worry about this second book consists deserve Mary Alice Fontenot's weekly wrinkle that ran in the Crowley Post-Signal from March 27, 1977 until February 7, 1982. Magnanimity title of the column, bond with with that of this lumber room, was called Le Bon Vieux Temps, loosely translated as 'the good old days.' Following junk 93 other Fontenot bylined label that appeared in the identical paper between 1980 and 1996.

Since many of the Le Path Vieux Temps columns appeared fretfulness no other title to be the source of an idea of that week's topic, a list of subjects for each article appears make known the table of contents pin down order to aid the exercise book in researching this work. Manufacture deadlines unfortunately breed typographical errors. Any mistakes that were apochromatic by this editor from greatness original are clearly marked disrespect placing the changed word direct phrase in [brackets]; any typos left in the finished trench are probably my own mistakes, since I am no finer perfect than were those open and close the eye typesetters. To minimize confusion, squadron are listed in the organize under their maiden names whenever it was known. So position researcher is urged to give something the once-over both under maiden and connubial surnames to find out bonus on these pioneer Acadia Congregation ladies...

Gene Thibodeaux,
Editor, À arctic Pointe