BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - A small memorial and museum in St. Martinville has become something of a pilgrimage for people who feel they have a family connection to Louisiana’s earliest Acadian settlers ...

The state capital of Louisiana in Baton Rouge. With Thanksgiving just, a week away Louisiana state offices will be closed Nov. 23 for Thanksgiving and Nov. 24 for a state holiday known as Acadian Day.

MONCTON, NEW BRUNSWICK — For a century following deportation of the Acadians from Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, the Acadians in Louisiana and to the north kept a low profile, ...

With Christmas travel ramping up across Louisiana, Acadian Ambulance reminds drivers to prepare vehicles, avoid distractions, ...

This year’s official poster for Festival des Acadians et Créoles commemorates the arrival of the Acadians to Louisiana. It shows settlers stepping ashore amid blue skies and cypress moss, with little ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser is visiting Canada as part of a Louisiana delegation to the Acadian World Congress. The event happens every five years and aims to celebrate and build ...

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 ...

LOREAUVILLE, La. (KLFY) — Every five years, Le Grand Réveil Acadien (“The Great Acadian Awakening”) brings Cajuns and Acadians together to celebrate their shared French heritage. But this year, the ...

LAFAYETTE, LOUISIANA—The Daily Iberian reports that Mark Rees of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and his colleagues think they may have found a homestead in an area where Joseph Broussard and ...

I was interested in the article in The Daily Advertiser Feb. 1, by Joanna Brown, "As Cajuns, 'we cannot close our home to the refugees,'" and wanted to add some historical information that ...