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03-30-2009, 10:17 AM
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Re: My Acadian Heritage
And here's some music from this end of the line ... Doug Kershaw. (The roots of his last name are actually English.)
Amazing how things evolve - but after 400 years or so, the culture is alive and well and has a place in the 21st century.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AQvUPN1jAk
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03-30-2009, 10:34 AM
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Re: My Acadian Heritage
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New Orleans is known for the Creole culture; the Creoles came straight from France and were the aristocrats while the Cajuns were more rural and folksy.
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Thanks for the correction, Tim. Since this is my heritage and it's kind of a mish-mash, it is more from memory and what I have been told than research.
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Also, the cajun culture became a melting pot in southwest Louisiana - not only the Acadians but Spanish and German - along with Acadian French names like Landry there are cajuns named Hoffpauir (German) and Romero (Spanish) as well as Fontenot - who came straight from France. All of them spoke the cajun french dialect.
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Interesting. I know very little about the Cajuns. I just know that the expelled Acadians that went south became Cajuns. And, when pronounced the names sounds similar.
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The Acadians were the first totally North American culture - they had been in modern Nova Scotia and PEI some 200 years before being driven out by the British.
In fact, the Acadians who went to France after being driven from their homeland did not fit in there either.
I agree it is a great heritage.
ILG, you need to come to Louisiana and see it from this end.
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It's funny but while you grow up, you don't really appreciate your heritage too much. I have only become interested in recent years and then, you ask a question here and there and what you are told is, like I said, a mish-mash of belief and tidbits of knowledge from here and there. I found a geneaology website that I sent to my family. It is pretty cool.
http://www.genealogytoday.com/ca/acadian.html
I think I would feel like a fish out of water in Louisiana!
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03-30-2009, 10:34 AM
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Re: My Acadian Heritage
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We went to Prince Edward Island several years ago. We loved it!
Do you get to visit your relatives there?
Just think.......you could have become a Cajun.........lol
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Yes, quite a number of times. I am going this summer.
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03-30-2009, 10:38 AM
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Re: My Acadian Heritage
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Originally Posted by timlan2057
And here's some music from this end of the line ... Doug Kershaw. (The roots of his last name are actually English.)
Amazing how things evolve - but after 400 years or so, the culture is alive and well and has a place in the 21st century.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AQvUPN1jAk
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Ah, yes, the fiddle come out again!!! I have cousins who play/have played in this:
http://www.rollobayfiddlefest.ca/
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03-30-2009, 10:39 AM
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Re: My Acadian Heritage
Here is some real deal Cajun music,this is the real stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGvci6EsFj8
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03-30-2009, 10:41 AM
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Re: My Acadian Heritage
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Originally Posted by Sarah
We went to Prince Edward Island several years ago. We loved it!
Do you get to visit your relatives there?
Just think.......you could have become a Cajun.........lol
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And I would be eating crawfish instead of LOBSTER!! That would be a tragedy. LOL!!
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03-30-2009, 10:45 AM
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Re: My Acadian Heritage
Here we go.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stDrybc9Ruw
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03-30-2009, 10:47 AM
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Re: My Acadian Heritage
Gotta go to work. Love the Cajun videos!!
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03-30-2009, 10:48 AM
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Re: My Acadian Heritage
that is freaky
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03-30-2009, 11:10 AM
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Re: My Acadian Heritage
What was that movie some years ago where some guys (I think they were National Guard) got lost in the swamps and attacked by Cajuns?
Not to be confused with "Deliverance"
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