She began a project 10 years ago to paint family portraits of Louisiana’s original Acadian settlers using their descendants as models. “And then dad, you kind of turn and look at Angelle ...

Usner Jr., Holland N. McTyeire Professor of History, Vanderbilt University, “Indians, Settlers, and slaves on a Colonial Frontier: The Acadians among other Peoples.” Reading excerpts from his ...

Portrait artist Ceci Neustrom began a project 10 years ago to paint family portraits of Louisiana’s original Acadian settlers, using their descendants as models. Dave McNamara shows how Neustrom ...

on Aug. 14 – as the region celebrated the Congrès mondial acadien – this artwork, each piece no larger than a baseball card, brought Acadians together from Wedgeport, West Pubnico ...

He composed a new song cycle built on the words of Acadian poets and informed by the musical traditions of the early French settlers in this ... dark folk and art rock. Guerette said the sound ...

(WAFB) - A small memorial and museum in St. Martinville has become something of a pilgrimage for people who feel they have a family connection to Louisiana’s earliest Acadian settlers.

The Acadians are descendants of French settlers who established communities in North America during the 17 th century. Primarily located in areas that are now the Canadian provinces of Nova Scotia ...