Louisiana
by: The Capeway TravelerBooks From Louisana
Our tour guide throughout the trip Heather Logsdon, from William Creative Group in Shreveport.
Kaylie LeBlanc, Communications & Membership Coordinator
Lafayette Convention & Vistors Commission
www.lafayette.travel
Blue Dog Café’
www.bluedogcafe.com
Comfort Suites
www.choicehotels.com/hotel/la247
Dwyer’s Café
323 Jefferson Street
Lafayette, LA 70501
337-235-9364
Frey’s Crawfish House
www.freyscrawfish.com
Zigler Museum
411 Clara Street
Jennings, LA 70546
337-824-0814
Gator Chateau
100 Rue de l' Acadie, (I-10 Park exit 64)
Jennings, LA 70546
337-616-4311
Palmetto State Park
www.crt.state.la.us
Dupuy’s Oyster Shop
www.dupuysoystershop.com
Suire’s Grocery and Restaurant
13923 La Highway 35
Kaplan, LA 70548
337-643-8911
Stansel Rice Mill
7918 Stansel Rd
Gueydan, LA 70542
SHUCKS! The Louisiana
www.shucksrestaurant.com
Rip Van Winkle Gardens
www.ripvanwinklegardens.com
Shadows-on-the-Teche Plantation Home and Gardens
www.shadowsontheteche.org
Bayou Cabins
www.bayoucabins.com
Mulate’s The Orginal Cajun Restaurant
www.mulates.com
Evangeline Downs Hotel
www.evangelinedowns.com
Documentary T-Galop: a Louisiana Horse Story Premieres March 15
LAKE CHARLES, Louisiana - The new documentary T-Galop: a Louisiana Horse Story will premiere on Thursday, March 15th at 7:00 pm at the Central School Arts and Humanities Center in Lake Charles as part of the Louisiana Folklore Society’s Annual Meeting that is being hosted by McNeese State University and co-sponsored by McNeese Banners Series.
T-Galop is the recent creation by Conni Castille who made I Always Do My Collars First (2007), Raised on Rice and Gravy (2009), and King Crawfish (2010). The film screening is co-sponsored by the Arts and Humanities Council of Southwest Louisiana.
Nick Spitzer, NPR’s American Routes, consulted with Castille on the film (Spitzer is also the invited Keynote Speaker for the Annual Meeting and will address the public on Friday, March 16, 7:00 p.m. at Stokes Auditorium). “T-Galop takes the audience deep into the horse play and work of French Louisiana,” says Spitzer, adding that “Cajun and Creole cowboy and cattle traditions are revealed from colonial times to present day swimming herds, bush tracks, zydeco cowboys, mounted Mardi Gras revelers, knightly “tournois”, workaday ranchers and famed jockeys. It’s all there.”
Indeed, in T-Galop, Creole cowboys, Cajun jockeys, Cotton Knights and Mardi Gras revelers reveal the long history and blend between Creoles and Cajuns and the horses they love. “This equine love affair began more than 250 years ago on the first ranches of South Louisiana where Creoles became some of American’s first cowboys,” explains Castille, the film’s writer and director. Not only essential to hard ranch work, horses were often the focus of French Louisiana’s renowned joie de vivre. “The Creole and Cajun idea of `passing a good time’ of course made its way into their horse culture, like the old bush track races that birthed so many great jockeys, or the Mardi Gras horseback riders, or the leisurely Creole trail rides,” says Castille. T-Galop romps playfully across South Louisiana through professional sports to community rituals bearing witness to a modern horse culture that was born many centuries ago.
T-Galop: a Louisiana Horse Story will screen in Lake Charles at the Central School, 809 Kirby Street on Thursday, March 15th, at 7:00 pm. Admission is free. Donations will be accepted (and appreciated) to benefit the Louisiana Folklore Society. For more information on the screening or the Folklore Society’s Annual Meeting, visit www.louisianafolklore.org, or call (337) 475-5312, or e-mail clegeune@mcneese.edu. T-Galop was supported in part by grants from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, Louisiana Entertainment, Louisiana Economic Development Association, and the Louisiana Division of the Arts, Office of Cultural Development, Department of Culture, Recreation & Tourism.
Narconon Riverbend in Louisiana Honors Children of Alcoholics Week Helping Break The Cycle
Narconon Riverbend in Louisiana honors Children of Alcoholics Week as they help children of alcoholic parents break the cycle of addiction and recover from the addictive patterns learned living with them.
Denham Springs, LA - Narconon Riverbend in Louisiana, an alcohol and drug rehabilitation center, honors Children of Alcoholics Week as they help children of alcoholic parents recover from the addictive patterns they learned growing up "under the influence".
Approximately 27.8 million children in the United States are affected or exposed to a family alcohol problem, prompting the National Association for Children of Alcoholics (NACOA) to promote Children of Alcoholics Week, February 12 - 18, to increase public awareness of the plight of these children.
"We appreciate the National Association for Children of Alcoholics for their commitment to children affected by parent's alcohol abuse and join them in their tireless efforts to raise awareness of this tragic problem," says Cathy Steiner, Executive Director, Narconon Riverbend Louisiana.
To celebrate this year's Children Of Alcoholics week, Narconon Riverbend graduated four more fully recovered drug-free students from their program and gives a brief glimpse into one students journey through life with alcoholic parents, her own addiction and how she subsequently overcame the loneliness and fear of her youth.
"I realized my parents were different when I was 4 years old because every time I saw a glass bottle in their hands, they acted different, becoming mean and more disconnected towards me. I would often get yelled at and even pushed around by my father. When I got scared at night, they would lock me in my room so they wouldn't have to bother with me," says C.N.
She went on to explain how her parent's alcoholism made her feel lonely with no one to talk to, resulting in her starting to move away from her parents and toward people who used drugs and alcohol. The patterns of her parents became second nature as she traveled the same road as them. "As I got in a car to leave a party, I noticed how drunk the driver was. While he drove, he looked down at his phone and lost control of the car, running off the road, through a guardrail and down a ravine toward the river. The car flipped several times and we stopped 50 feet into the ravine. I wasn't wearing a seat belt. Had there not been a tree to stop us, we would have gone into the river and both drown," says C.N.
Since alcoholics use alcohol to solve the problems of life instead of control, reason, prediction of consequences and ethics, life will continue to get worse and eventually spirals out of control.
"That accident changed my life...it drove me further into being an alcoholic. I disconnected from everyone. I was depressed and began using heron," says C.N. "Since I have been at Narconon Louisiana, my life has gotten better. I'm not going to lie through, it's been tough... Facing my life and my choices and taking responsibility is the hardest thing I have ever had to do. I know I can overcome my past and look toward a future!
The Narconon alcohol and drug rehabilitation program prides itself in their 75% success rate. This success is attributed to its unique drug-free rehabilitation program, not using drugs or medications to solve the problems caused by drugs, but use nutrition and nutritional supplements as an important component of its delivery. Drug cravings are handled during the Narconon New Life Detoxification program that helps remove the drug toxins that are stored in body. These steps are then followed by life skills courses that locate why a person starting abusing drugs in the first place and provides the skills needed to make better choices.
Narconon Riverbend in Louisiana, located in Denham Springs, is a non-profit alcohol and drug rehabilitation center licensed by the State of Louisiana. The Narconon drug rehabilitation and education program was founded in 1966 by William Benitez and uses the drug-free rehabilitation and social education methodology based on research developed by American author and humanitarian L. Ron Hubbard. They are dedicated to eliminating drug abuse and drug addiction through drug prevention, education and rehabilitation. If you know someone struggling with alcohol addiction or drug abuse and would like more information visit http://www.drugabusesolution.com or call 877-340-3602. Any questions you have in the matter can be addressed in confidence.