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Oil painting by Claude Millet
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Well we have so many wonderful places out here, like the Basin
back there, where just the atmosphere is just so pretty, so
nice for people just to go back there and just travel or ride
around on that levee, if it's permissible, sometimes its not,
depending on the weather and all and even just going to graveyards
and looking at them and dating back to all the years that of
some of the graves have been in there. If we could just get
this bayou cleaned up and get it back to what it used to be,
when they would barge logs and everything up this bayou and
it was used for so much waterway (traffic) back then. If they
could just do something to bring it back. There's just so
much out here that could be used in Iberville Parish. Just... just...
enough history for children to really get out and see what they
have and really enjoy. With the old houses in the parish, that
have been here for years and years, even when the Civil War
was going on. All of this is here for them, half of them don't
know it's here. They've never been to it and I don't think
nothing about it.
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Country Estate, 1938
Photograph by Fonville Winans
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But it would certainly be, and the Catholic
Church in Grosse Tete is a gorgeous church, and that church
has been there for years. Just like the one in Rosedale back
there. The swamps and all are so pretty, it just a beautiful
parish that people ought to really know more about and get out
and enjoy. The farming out here has been great, there was a
sugarmill out here at one time. There was a cotton gin about
a half a mile from here at one time too that was in full operation.
Of course it is down now, but I'm sure there is some history
about it somewhere. I don't know much about it. It was gone
before my time. There is a lot going on here in this area. A
lot about students making better grades and stuff to go to college
to finish and mature and be something in the career world too.
So they should really take advantage of it.
(Hopefully they'll come back to Iberville Parish and make this place a better place
to live.)
Exactly, they should, because there's a lot here to
offer. It just has to be matured and brought forward.
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