John Manuel starts his workday on the Tchefuncte River, near its mouth at Lake Pontchartrain. It's a cloudless late morning, but as he accelerates past ritzy waterfront properties in Madisonville, the ...

A 58-year-old fisherman tragically lost his life on Monday evening while out fishing in the waters of the Columbus Channel. Mathura Dalchan, of LP #6 Old Arima Road, Windy Hill, Arima, was accompanied ...

When Janice Prejean was growing up, if she wanted to speak with her grandparents, she had to do it in French. To crack the code of the private conversations and jokes that flew over the heads of ...

Similar to a canoe, the pirogue was first used by Native Americans in the swamps and marshes of Louisiana, before it was refined by French explorers, hunters and settlers. The pirogue was dug out of a ...

The smooth, rounded indentations have a way of humanizing the ancient canoe secured in the covered gallery behind the LSU Rural Life Museum's barn. These are places where people's backsides wore down ...

Pirogues were similar to canoes but had flat bottoms instead of concave, which allowed them to easily move over obstacles in the narrow waterways of Louisiana. This model represents a pirogue about ...

Beth D’Addono is an award-winning food and travel writer living in New Orleans. Her work has appeared in Atlas Obscura, The Local Palate, and the Los Angeles Times. Stop at any mom-and-pop corner ...