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By Jim Bradshaw
jhbradshaw@bellsouth.net

ngelina Glaudi was associated with a saint as a child and survived the infamous Galveston hurricane of 1900, but perhaps the most unique event in her life was the way she became a mother.

By Jim Bradshaw
jhbradshaw@bellsouth.net

By Jim Bradshaw
jhbradshaw@bellsouth.net

When Franklin Delano Roosevelt traveled to south Louisiana for a hunting trip in the winter of 1920, little did he know that he would be hunting for bigger game than ducks and geese.

In those days before he was stricken with polio, Roosevelt was an active outdoorsman.

By Jim Bradshaw
jhbradshaw@bellsouth.net

By Jim Bradshaw
jhbradshaw@bellsouth.net

The fact that there is a Frog Festival in Rayne is proof enough that in Louisiana we will celebrate just about anything, but there are actually historical roots for the celebration.

By Jim Bradshaw
jhbradshaw@bellsouth.net

In older days, when there was a general store at every south Louisiana cross- roads, two signs popped up this time of year as sure signals of fall.

The first read, “We Buy Pecans.” The second advertised “Tomb Paint.”

By Jim Bradshaw
jhbradshaw@bellsouth.net

Halloween was just around the corner when “The Thing” appeared in the skies over south Louisiana, but nobody thought it was a prank. It was pretty scary in the Cold War days of October 1951 when our boys were in Korea and the Russians were rattling swords at us.

By Jim Bradshaw
jhbradshaw@bellsouth.net

The news commanded big headlines in August 1951 when Dudley J. LeBlanc announced that he'd sold his magic elixir Hadacol for "about $10 million."

By Jim Bradshaw
jhbradshaw@bellsouth.net

By Jim Bradshaw
jhbradshaw@bellsouth.net

Soggy south Louisiana has long had a tradition of above-ground graves with brick or stone monuments above them.

But three graves in the Istre Cemetery on Swift Road in Acadia Parish west of Morse and south of Mermentau, are the last of several that took the tradition a little bit farther.