BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - A small memorial and museum in St. Martinville has become something of a pilgrimage for people who feel they have a family connection to Louisiana’s earliest Acadian settlers ...

Le Grand Réveil Acadien also begins this weekend, on Saturday. Billed as the "Great Acadian Awakening," this weeklong event takes place every five years, and offers a deep dive into Acadian history ...

It seems, or at least appears to be, that the bulk of the population is on the side of immigrants entering the state illegally. I do believe that some appear to think that the Acadian ancestors came ...

LAFAYETTE, La. (WAFB) - “But these are the colors that they mainly dressed in,” says portrait artist, Ceci Neustrom. Neustrom is an artist on a mission. “Mimics the look that the early Acadians would ...

Explore the Acadian Cultural Center in Lafayette, Louisiana, and discover the story of French-speaking settlers who rebuilt ...

NEW ORLEANS, La. (WVUE) - Our great-great ancestors often had to find remedies for illness in their own gardens. Those healing traditions are still being taught at an Acadian village in Lafayette.

A letter from Mike Fitzwilliam in the Jan. 20 edition takes a previous writer to task over certain “facts” related to the subject of illegal immigration. But Fitzwilliam then proceeds to pontificate a ...

The state capital of Louisiana in Baton Rouge. With Thanksgiving just, a week away Louisiana state offices will be closed Nov. 23 for Thanksgiving and Nov. 24 for a state holiday known as Acadian Day.

LAFAYETTE, LOUISIANA—The Daily Iberian reports that Mark Rees of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and his colleagues think they may have found a homestead in an area where Joseph Broussard and ...