LAFAYETTE, La. (WAFB) - “But these are the colors that they mainly dressed in,” says portrait artist, Ceci Neustrom. Neustrom is an artist on a mission. “Mimics the look that the early Acadians would ...
LAFAYETTE, La. (WVUE) - A Lafayette artist has come up with a unique way to help people connect with their Cajun ancestors. Portrait artist Ceci Neustrom began a project 10 years ago to paint family ...
August 15th marked a meaningful day across Acadiana as communities gathered to celebrate National Acadian Day, honoring the descendants of French settlers who were exiled from Canada in the 18th ...
One of the newest Mardi Gras krewes in Acadiana will pay tribute to the early Acadian settlers who settled in the city of Broussard. Carnivale de Beausoleil will have a Venetian theme, a nod to the ...
My maternal grandparents were Cajun. Letter writer Morgan Landry’s argument is not clarification. It is sentimentality masquerading as judgment. Landry celebrates Cajuns as having been “welcomed with ...