Jim Bradshaw
Several weeks ago, I reported the oft-told story that the Mowata community in Acadia Parish got its name because nobody could find a board long enough to print the original name of Morewater.
I have long suspected that the story was suspect, but had never heard anything to contradict it. Erich and Kathryn Loewer have heard another version, and it seems a lot more likely.
Bryan Golden
Most people profess a desire for success and happiness. Surprisingly, it’s not uncommon for someone to sabotage their own chances for success. This usually happens subconsciously and the person is probably not even aware of it.
Jim Bradshaw
The first paved streets in a town were cause for celebration of the end to mud in the winter and dust in the summer, and because they were the sign of a progressive community.
For example, when Opelousas paved its first streets in 1914 car owners called for “a mammoth parade” of every automobile in the area. The idea almost caught on, too.
Bryan Golden
Would you have any desire to pick up hot coals? If you were holding hot coals, wouldn’t you drop them immediately? Just the thought of being burned by hot coals is enough to make you wince in pain.
Yet, not only do people stubbornly hold onto emotional hot coals, they pick up additional hot coals at every opportunity. In addition to pain, these emotional hot coals are very damaging.
Jim Bradshaw
David Abbott, who came to Crowley from Michigan in 1888 and settled down to grow rice, was not the first farmer to realize that we needed more than rainfall to irrigate a big field of water-loving rice. But he is credited with being the first one to do something about it.
In 1894 he built a canal 15 miles long and 40 feet wide to irrigate his crop, and created a clumsy but workable system to lift water out of the canal and get it into his fields.
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