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After the epic poem “Evangeline,” the best-known rhyme about the Cajun country might be Hank Williams’s “Jambalaya,” even if nobody who’s ever lived on any Louisiana bayou ever called anyone else “ma cher amio.”
Some people claim “Jambalaya” may be even better-known than “Evangeline,” and attribute that to the fact that Longfellow never thought about rhyming “good-bye Joe” with “me gotta go,” and that he just never could find a really good rhythm guitar player.

We developed the habit of looking down as young children when we were upset, angry, embarrassed, frustrated, or dejected. We stared at the ground as we walked around sulking. We were withdrawn and unresponsive. We used this behavior as an escape rather than trying to remedy a situation.
This early conditioning influences your behavior throughout life. It becomes a default response to dealing with adversity. Even though this approach is devoid of any positive results, it’s used repeatedly.

The beginning of the offshore oil industry is commonly dated to the completion of a Kerr-McGee well south of Morgan City in November 1947, but drillers brought in the first well in the Gulf almost a decade before that, in the middle of March 1938.
Humble Oil drilled that well at the end of a pier stretching a mile into the water from McFadden Beach, south of Port Arthur. A railroad spur ran down the middle of the pier and was used to bring men and supplies to the drilling rig at its end.