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By Jim Bradshaw
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rowley High School was one of its most formidable rivals when the Southwestern Louisiana Industrial Institute first began to field athletic teams.

By Jim Bradshaw
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Bobby Charles leaves lasting legacy

By Jim Bradshaw
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By Jim Bradshaw
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narrow road leads to the Abshire Cemetery about eight miles northeast of Kaplan in Vermilion Parish. There are about 100 graves in the little cemetery.

There is also a stone cross with an inscription. It reads:

In Memory of the 11 Men

By Jim Bradshaw
jhbradshaw@bellsouth.net

ngelina Glaudi was associated with a saint as a child and survived the infamous Galveston hurricane of 1900, but perhaps the most unique event in her life was the way she became a mother.

By Jim Bradshaw
jhbradshaw@bellsouth.net

orecasters say we can expect some of the coldest weather in more than a decade at the end of this week and into the weekend, but Old Man Winter will have to work some to beat the bleak, blizzardy January of 1940.

By Jim Bradshaw
jhbradshaw@bellsouth.net

n the old days, New Year’s Day, not Christmas, was the time when gifts were exchanged in French Louisiana. It was the day for family reunions and the time when le bon St. Nicolas brought good children les étrennes.

By Jim Bradshaw
jhbradshaw@bellsouth.net

By Jim Bradshaw
jhbradshaw@bellsouth.net

hen Franklin Delano Roosevelt traveled to south Louisiana for a hunting trip in the winter of 1920, little did he know that he would be hunting for bigger game than ducks and geese.

In those days before he was stricken with polio, Roosevelt was an active outdoorsman.

By Jim Bradshaw
jhbradshaw@bellsouth.net