Before the 62nd Bayou Liberty Pirogue Races could even begin, it looked like the annual event might be a wash. Heavy rains delayed the start of the races on June 1, but the skies eventually cleared ...
When Will Walsten was a teenager in the early 1970s, attendance at the Bayou Liberty Pirogue Races meant hopping into a boat and paddling with all his might against the coffee-colored current. It also ...
The Bayou Terrebonne Boucherie Festival, a free event featuring live music, food and a Cajun-themed competition, takes place Saturday, March 22. A highlight of the festival is the Cajun Cup, where ...
As indigenous to the bayou country as Mardi Gras are pirogues (canoes dug out of cypress logs). Louisiana’s first mode of transportation, pirogues are still used by Cajun and Baratarian trappers to ...