Heritage Area Reading List

To learn more about the culture of the Atchafalaya National Heritage Area, enjoy the following reading materials:

• “Capitaine Voyage Ton Flag”: The Traditional Cajun Country Mardi Gras, Louisiana Life Series, No. 1 by Barry Jean Ancelet

• 1994 Malaki Festival: A Community Reunion to Celebrate Rural African American Traditions by Wonda Fontenot

• A Better Life: Italian-Americans in South Louisiana Joel Gardner

• A Creole Lexicon: Architecture, Landscape, Peopl, by Jay Edwards and Nicolas Kariouk Pecquet du Bellay de Verton

• A History of Pointe Coupée Parish, Louisiana: The Murray G. LeBeau Memorial Edition by Brian J. Costello

• Acadiana: Louisiana’s Historic Cajun Country by Carl A. Brasseaux

• Arpadhon: The Largest Rural Hungarian Settlement in the United States by Victoria Ann Mocsary

• Atchafalaya Houseboat: My Years in the Louisiana Swamp by Gwen Roland with photography by C. C. Lockwood

• Atchafalaya Swamp Life Settlement and Folk Occupations, Geoscience and Man, Vol II by Malcolm Comeaux

• Bayou Farewell: The Rich Life and Tragic Death of Louisiana’s Cajun Coast by Mike Tidwell

• Bayou Pigeon, Louisiana, Spirit of the Atchafalaya by Clifford LeGrange

• Bayou-Diversity: Nature and People in the Louisiana Bayou Country by Kelby Ouchley

• Becoming American: The Acadian in American Literature from Longfellow to James Lee Burke Maria Hebert-Leiter

• Between the Levees Jonathan Olivier

• Beyond Control: The Mississippi River’s New Channel to the Gulf of Mexico (America’s Third Coast Series) by James F. Barnett

• Blood on the Bayou: Tom Green’s Texans and the Defense of Louisiana and Texas July 1863-March 1864, by Donald s. Frazier

• C. C. Lockwood’s Atchafalaya by C. C. Lockwood

• Cajun and Creole Folktales: The French Oral Tradition of South Louisiana by Barry Jean Ancelet

• Cajun and Creole Music Makers: Musiciens cadiens et creoles by Barry Jean Ancelet

• Cajun Country by Barry Jean Ancelet, Jay Edwards and Glen Pitre

• Cajun Foodways by Page C. Gutierrez

• Cajun Mardi Gras Masks by Carl Lindahl and Carolyn Ware

• Cajun Music and Zydeco by Philip Gould

• Cajun Music: A Reflection of a People by Ann Savoy

• Cajun Music: It’s Origins and Development by Barry Jean Ancelet

• Cést ça yé dit: Creole Folk Tales, Superstitions, Remedies, Customes, Nicknames and Linguistic Peculiarities of Pointe Coupée Parish, Louisiana by Brian J. Costello

• Crafts Talk: Visits with Five Traditional Louisiana Craftspeople by Beverly d. Latimer and Phoebe D. Vermillion

• Creolization in the French Americas by Jean-Marc Masseaut, Jordan Kellman and Michael Martin

• Crevasse!: The 1927 Flood in Acadiana by Carl A. Brasseaux and Glenn R. Conrad

• Death at the Landing: The Contest for the Red River and the Collapse of Confederate Louisiana by Donald S. Frazier

• Designing the Bayous: The Control of Water in the Atchafalaya Basin, 1800-1995 by Martin Reuss

• Desolation Unmeasured…: The Tragic History of floods in Pointe Coupée Parish, Louisiana by Brian J. Costello

• Documenting Selected Louisiana Ethnic Groups: A Theme Issue of LLA Bulletin, Vol 57, No. 1 by Christina Riquelmy

• Down on the Batture by Oliver A. Houck

• Earthen Walls, Iron Men: Fort DeRussy, Louisiana, and the Defense of Red River by Steven M. Mayeux

• Encyclopedia of Southern Culture by Charles Reagan Wilson and William Ferris

• Father Mississippi: The Story of the Great Flood of 1927 by Lyle Saxon

• Feast of St. Joseph: Labor of Love by the Faithful, Folklife in the Florida Parishes Series, Vol. I by Karen Warren

• Fire in the Cane Field: The Federal Invasion of Louisiana and Texas, January 1861-January 1863 by Donald S. Frazier

• Flora and Fauna of the Civil War: An Environmental Reference Guide by Kelby Ouchley

• Folklife in Louisiana Photography: Images of Tradition by F.A. de Caro

• French Colonial Louisiana and the Atlantic World by Bradley G. Bond

• French, Cajun, Creole, Houma: A Primer on Francophone in Louisiana by Carl A. Brasseaux

• Germans of Louisiana by Ellen C. Merrill

• Histoire des Acadiennes et Acadiens de la Louisiane by Zachary Richard

• Historic Baton Rouge Architecture by Jim Frazier

• If I Could Turn My Tongue Like That by Thomas A. Klingler

• Interpreting Difficult History at Museums and Historic Sites by Julie Rose

• Le Garde-Manger: Preserving Our Treasure Memories by Dayna Bowker Lee

• Les Artistes: Crafters Tell Their Tales by Linda Langley, Susan Lejeune and Claude Oubre

• Les Cadiens et leurs ancetres acadians by Shane H. Bernard

• Les Raconteurs: Treasure Lore and More by Linda Langley, Susan Lejeune and Claude Oubre

• Les Reviel des Fetes: Revitalized Celebrations and Performance Traditions by Linda Langley, Susan Lejeune and Claude Oubre

• Les Vieus Temps: Recreation and Family Traditions in Southwest Louisiana by Linda Langley, Susan Lejeune and Claude Oubre

• Livestock Brands & Marks 1822-1946 Pioneer Families Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana by Christopher Everette Cenac, Sr.

• Lords of the Basin: History of the Lost Village…Atchafalaya by Kenneth Delcambre

• Louisiana Buildings 1720 – 1940 by Barbara SoRelle Bacot and Jesse Poesch

• Louisiana Crawfish, A Succulent History of the Cajun Crustacean by Sam Irwin

• Louisiana Cultural Vistas, Quarterly magazine published by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Louisiana Folklife Periodical published by the Louisiana Folklife Society

• Louisiana Folklife. Special Issue: African-American Folklife in Louisiana, Volume XVILL, 1993 Issue by Marcy Frantom

• Louisiana Folklife: A Guide to the State by Nicholas Spitzer

• Louisiana Folklore Miscellany Periodical published by the Louisiana Folklore Society

• Louisiana Sugar Plantations During the Civil War by Charles P. Roland

• Louisiana Traditional Crafts by F. A. de Caro and R. A. Jordan

• Louisiana’s French Creole Culinary and Linguistic Traditions by John La Fleur, Brian Costello and Norris Fontenot

• Mamou: Acadian Folklore, Natural History, and Botany of the Mamou Plant by William Dean Reese

• McIlhenny’s Gold: How a Louisiana Family Built the Tabasco Empire by Jeffrey Rothfeder

• New Roads and Old Rivers: Louisiana’s Historic Pointe Coupee Parish by Randy Harelson, Brian Costello and Richard Sexton

• Red Shoes’ People: A History of the Sovereign Nation of the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana

• Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood and How It Changed America by John M. Barry

• River Music: An Atchafalaya Story by Ann McCutchan

• Roadside Geology of Louisiana by Darwin Spearing

• Second Linin’: Jazzmen of Southwest Louisiana, 1900-1950, Louisiana Life Series, No. 3 by Austin Sonnier, Jr.

• Secret Doctors: Ethnomedicine of African Americans Wonda Fontenot

• Southern Folklore Swamp Pop: Cajun and Creole Rhythm & Blues by Shane H. Bernard

• Swapping Stories: Folktales from Louisiana by Carl Lindahl, Maida Owens and Renée Harvison

• Tales from the Levee by Marcia Gaudet

• Teche: A History of Louisiana’s Most Famous Bayou by Shane H. Bernard

• The Atchafalaya River Basin: History and Ecology of an American Wetland by Bryan P. Piazza

• The Canary Islanders of Louisiana by Gilbert C. Din

• The Civil War in Louisiana by John D. Winters

• The Control of Nature John McPhee

• The Historic Indian Tribes of Louisiana by Fred B. Kniffen, H. F. Gregory and G. A. Stokes

• The History of the Acadians of Louisiana by Zachary Richard

• The Jewish Confederates by Robert N. Rosen

• The Louisiana Native Guards: The Black Military Experience during the Civil War by James G. Hollandsworth

• The Spanish Tradition in Louisiana by Samuel G. Armistead

• The St. Joseph Altar Traditions of South Louisiana, Louisiana Life Series, No. 4 by Ethelyn Orso

• Thunder Across the Swamp: The Fight for the Lower Mississippi, February – May 1863 by Donald S. Frazier

• Voodoo, Past and Present, Louisiana Life Series, No. 5 by Ron Bodin

• Walker’s Texas Division, CSA: Greyhounds of the Trans-Mississippi by Richard G. Lowe

• Washed Away?: The Invisible Peoples of Louisiana’s Wetlands by Donald W. Davis

• West of the Mississippi with Waller’s 13^th Texas Cavalry Battalion by Charles Spurlin

• Yankee Autumn in Acadiana: A Narrative of the Great Texas Overland Expedition Through Southwestern Louisiana October – December 1863 by David C. Edmonds

• ZYDECO! by Rick Olivier and Ben Sandmel