Quote:Dr.Maynard, sir I regret to inform you that I am a displaced yankee that got tired of shoveling snow and ice as well as freezing my . . . Frank
Hey Frank -- Let's have no regrets for your decision to become an adopted Cajun. That's all the better for you.
One does not become an accepted Cajun Man overnight with those folks in Iberia Parish. It takes a lot of back slapper and Dixie beer to get the feel of being a true Cajun. It also helps if you know something about shooting ducks out of a pirogue.
Paul Prudhomme was my favorite Cajun Man and he always saved us a good table and attentive waitress when we were in New Orleans.
I know my history lessons well and of course didn't expect you to know Huey Long during his lifetime. Of course, you would not know Edwin Edwards from Avoyelles Parish, you being out in the oil patch all day working.
I doubt that you've ever been to Marksville, where Edwin and his brother grew up.
We'll have to get together the next time I'm down your way for some red beans and rice with a goodly portion of crawdads. We have a fish market in the city who gets us all the crawfish we care to eat flown up from N.O. when we're having a group of folks in for supper, including Lindy Boggs before she passed two years past.
Friends?
Webb