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As the family story is told, Samuel Marquart intended to find a fortune in the cold, rugged gold fields of the Yukon territory of northwestern Canada. He was trying to get through a mountain pass between Alaska and Canada when he ran into a powerful snow storm that convinced him he was meant for warmer climes.

Intimidation causes you to behave differently than you would normally. You don’t respect people who intimidate you. You resent them. You are afraid of the consequences should you defy their wishes. Intimidation is only effective when you capitulate to it.
When intimidated, you are never happy. You become angry and frustrated. Intimidation may be either intentionally used or a function of your own perception.

Ville Platte might lay claim to being the first small town in south Louisiana to offer high quality talking movies. The Gazette said the opening of the Evangeline Theater in the summer of 1930 put the town “on the amusement map,” right up there with the big cities.
“Talkies” had been seen regularly in the big towns since the debut of the “The Jazz Singer” in 1927, but small towns had to stay with silent films or use scratchy phonograph records that were supposed to be synchronized with what was on the screen, but seldom were.