Bayou Pigeon Heritage Association

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What's on our mind ... looking for contestants to our Wild Beast Feast Cook -off on Oct 12, 2024....We made some changes...
08/27/2024

What's on our mind ... looking for contestants to our Wild Beast Feast Cook -off on Oct 12, 2024....

We made some changes this year hoping to attract more Cajun cooks to enter... no entry fee and $250 prize to winners

This year we have some great raffle items. ...factory-made 4 x 6 custom deer blind and a Savage Long Range rifle package in 308 Wi******er.

We are asking hunters and sportsman who have some trophy deer mounts and or taxidermy work to bring them to wild beat feast ... we will have a display area to show them off ... that will be worth a visit ...

We will have our usual vendors at our event. Most of the vendors from our Crawfest in June will be back...

and 3 great bands again ... plus a few VIP's

Please try to attend and test your cooking skills... I heard a rumor that one contestant says he will be serving Bar B Que raccoon... and he guarantees you will like better than any wild game you can prepare on a grill ...

Hope to see you there!

What's on our mind?  Our Wild Beast Feast, what else?  It takes a lot of preparation to get ready for an event of this t...
08/11/2024

What's on our mind?

Our Wild Beast Feast, what else?

It takes a lot of preparation to get ready for an event of this type...

We started today on some of the physical changes we are making to make this year's event more enjoyable and better for our followers ...

Customers who come to our outside events form an impression based on what they see.

Since most of our events have lots of great food. The establishment’s cleanliness is a crucial factor that can significantly influence their perception.

Cleanliness plays a vital role in creating a positive customer experience. People value their health and well-being, and cleanliness directly impacts their perception of our organization.

You know what people say and think ‘Cleanliness Is Next To Godliness”.

Cleanliness is associated with professionalism, quality, and attention to detail.

We want to ensure our followers the safest food service.
In that vein, We have started today revamping our serving area under our outside pavilion... we will have new counters wider better and for serving the food we have that day. They will be painted and have a hardened clear coating on the outside. It will make cleaning up and keep all our entrees and desserts fresh looking.
This wild beast feast will be offering complimentary hand sanitizers and refreshing wipes and keeping everything in the safe temperature zone.. Hot and Cold

This also includes ensuring a comfortable seating area.
A clean space makes a happy place. The pavilion will be power-washed and freshly painted.
So, mark your calendars for Oct. 12 and come check out how the Bayou Pigeon Heritage Association…

Preserving our Heritage and Improving Our Community One Event At a Time.

A final thought...special thanks to our crew today who put in 10 hour day... Randy Laprarie, Wilton Leonard, Rick Phillips, Larry Vaughn, Joe Richard, Marla Berthelot, Irvin Blanchard, and Chachie

08/10/2024

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Hey BPHA  followers Here is a picture we got today from Wally Gaudet and his dad Russell. when they came to visit the Ba...
08/10/2024

Hey BPHA followers

Here is a picture we got today from Wally Gaudet and his dad Russell. when they came to visit the Bayou Pigeon Heritage Folklife Museum.

It is a picture of my wife's mother Mrs. Beulah Gaudet Solar with some Sedotal's from Pierre Part ... Diane had never seen this picture before ... it is always a pleasant surprise when you get a picture of your family you have never seen before this ... Beula looks to maybe 14 -15 years old...must be from around mid 1930's ...

Just checking with Mr. Nolan Huguet [one of our Board of Directors] Are these folks kin to you, Nolan ....

Louanna Sedotal Templet, Mrs. Beulah Gaudet Solar, Sedotal Daigle, and Nookie Sedotal Jr.

if anyone else has old/vintage pictures of their relatives from Bayou Pigeon they would like to share with us .... message us ...

If you like to tour the Bayou Pigeon Folklife Museum... message us as well to get a guided tour ...

Preserving the Heritage

enjoy ...

enjoy

07/15/2024
Crawfest 2024 ...We just wanna  say  ...A big thanks to all who helped with our Crawfest 2024 ...Thank you Jesus for hol...
06/04/2024

Crawfest 2024 ...

We just wanna say ...A big thanks to all who helped with our Crawfest 2024 ...

Thank you Jesus for holding off the rain long enough to get a complete day of festivities.

Thank you to long list of volunteers for helping in and around Crawfest before, during and after …

Thank you to all our vendors your commitment to our cause has made a significant impact, and we are truly grateful for your support.

Thank you to all our business people our heartfelt thanks for your generous contributions to this enormous event …

And thanks to all who came out on Saturday June 1 joining us at our event.
Your support of our heritage association. Your enthusiasm and engagement are much appreciated, and we hope you found the experience worthwhile.

Remember our mission of the BPHA ... everything not saved is loss ...

preserving our heritage ..

‼️Rain or shine the CrawFest will go on!‼️‼️PLEASE SHARE‼️Wear your rubber boots and come out to have a great time! We w...
05/31/2024

‼️Rain or shine the CrawFest will go on!‼️
‼️PLEASE SHARE‼️

Wear your rubber boots and come out to have a great time! We will have plenty of food, great music, and awesome items for the auction! Please come out and show your support for a great cause!

Food will be served under the pavilion and we will have plenty of room in the gym for everyone to stay nice and dry!!

What's on our mind ... today ...what else / Crawfest June 1, 2024 The Bayou Pigeon Folklife museum will open from 11 am ...
05/31/2024

What's on our mind ... today ...what else / Crawfest June 1, 2024

The Bayou Pigeon Folklife museum will open from 11 am til 7 pm.

Free entry ... come by to check it out ... we have new exhibits ... just in time for the Crawfest festival

” The forests grew to the size of the woods before modern times. The ghastly impenetrable swamps choked with rank life”.

Certain Industries Have A Tendency To Come And Go Rapidly. A Distinguishing Characteristics of The Cypress Logging Industry in The Atchafalaya Basin was a “Cut Out and Get Out” attitude / culture , 1880 - 1930. 1000 years of history almost gone in 50 ... what a pity

Leaving Large Areas Of Denuded Cypress Tupelo
Swamp.

Resulting in changes that would affected, the landscape and destiny of Bayou Pigeon.

The philosopher George Santayana, If We Don’t Take Time to Reflect on Our Behavior, We May Unwittingly Repeat It.

This is true for all actions in the past. If we don’t think about how bad some of the decisions were, we are vulnerable to being treated that way again.

The Atchafalaya Basin has thousands of years of history to tell us about. Meandering rivers, 1000-year-old cypress trees, Native Americans, Courier de Bois, dugout pirogues,

American explorers, wild rivers, and log jams. Acadian ancestry, farmers and planters, plantations, steamboats, Cajuns, Swampers, Loggers, Fishermen, Hunters, Fur Trappers, Moss-Picking, Catfish, Crawfish, Crabs, Frogs, Turtles, Bateaus, Swamp Dwellers, Houseboats, Floods, Floodways, Levee Dwellers, Oil And Gas Exploration/Production, Roads, Bridges, Sedimentation, Stream Hydrology, Recreation, And Restoration… To Name A Few.

we think you will like it...

The stage is set! Everything is ready for this weekend! We can’t wait to have everyone come out and support Bayou Pigeon...
05/31/2024

The stage is set! Everything is ready for this weekend! We can’t wait to have everyone come out and support Bayou Pigeon Heritage Association and have a great time!!!

The final countdown to our Crawfest 2024 is on ... boil crawfish is the guest of honor ... plus much more great food ava...
05/28/2024

The final countdown to our Crawfest 2024 is on ... boil crawfish is the guest of honor ... plus much more great food available...
dancing and music 3 great bands ... with the last being the king of Swamp Pop Mr. Don Rich... he promises to light it up ...

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a couple of reminders ...we are asking our Crawfish community to consider donating sack of crawfish to our cause... this is our major fund raiser of the year... every donation helps us defray expenses ...

Tuesday 5 28 2024 at 6 pm in Heritage hall ...our planning team ...we have our final prep meeting to go over our plans and actions one last time to ensure the day is successful...

this meeting will be open to anyone who wants to volunteer to help in any kind of way ... just show up if you want to help ...

everything we do is to benefit the community of Bayou Pigeon...

please be kind...

Bayou Pigeon Heritage Association .... We Remember
05/25/2024

Bayou Pigeon Heritage Association ....

We Remember

We are pleased to announce we added two  new lifetime members this past week to Bayou Pigeon Heritage Association. Ernie...
05/19/2024

We are pleased to announce we added two new lifetime members this past week to Bayou Pigeon Heritage Association.

Ernie and Carla Gaudet, and Mr. Ben Vaughn, son of (Ava Lee and Issac Vaughn Jr.)

We are also pleased to Announce that Mr. Chad Leblanc is going to have a booth at our Crawfest June 1,2024 and will be selling and signing his latest book "The Families of Pierre Part and Belle River"

I highly recommend it .... and he will be selling his other two Books, 'The Roots of the Bayous' and 'Back in Day" a photographic essay of the 'Places People Remember'

I particularly like the illustration of Blanchard's Bar and Grill ...

I have fond memories of listening to 'Cookie and the Cupcakes' playing their hit song "All These things: ...

At Blanchard's "no better belly rubbing music' ... re recorded later by John Fred and the Playboys. My favorite version, check out the attached version played by Joe Stampley in 1966. This was our song with my Cajun Bride, the love of my life Diane Solar... "Back in the Day 1966 -67.

Maybe Don Rich knows this song and will play it for us...

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'All these things' how many remember this song No better Belly Rubbing music with your girl ...

What's on our mind today ... what else ...  the Bayou Pigeon Heritage 3rd Annual Crawfest festival.I think we have some ...
05/08/2024

What's on our mind today ... what else ... the Bayou Pigeon Heritage 3rd Annual Crawfest festival.

I think we have some exciting news to announce on the entertainment for the day that most people will not recognize the importance of from a Bayou Pigeon Heritage standpoint.

This announcement is in the Spirit of Bayou Pigeon Heritage., no kidding

I am sure most people who live on the edges of the Atchafalaya Basin will be seeing the banners about the upcoming Bayou Pigeon Heritage 3rd annual Crawfest.

We have them stretched out from Morgan City to Plaquemine , White Castle , and Donaldsonville and Highway 70 as well.

For three years we have been trying to line up Don Rich whose ancestry is The Richard Bros Band from the hey day of Cajun Dancehalls in Pierre Part, Belle River and Bayou Pigeon.

To play at our BPHA Heritage Crawfest festival …

Well, we finally got him lined up… for 2024

It’s been 64 years since the last time a Richard Bros played at Bayou Pigeon. The Richard Bros Band played at Gaudet's Bar and Dance Hall, Wilson Leonard's Tavern and LeGrange's End of the World Bar and Dance Hall in late 1963 - 64 time frame.

At that time Communities on the eastern edge of the Atchafalaya had their share of bar and dancehalls, the commonality was a combination of alcohol consumption, music, dancing, courtship and gambling, and minor violence (i.e. fisticuffs over girlfriends).

Come hear Don Rich the King of Swamp Pop. No one is more Bayou Cajun and Swamp Pop than Don Rich, (real name Donald Richard, pronounced ree-shard). He is a fifth-generation musician from Pierre Part.

Relive the glory days of Bayou Pigeon Heritage, of your parents and grandparents...

Swamp Pop music is Dance Hall Music… made to dance by and not necessarily just to listen to.

The term “Swamp Pop” is credited to British journalist John Boven, author of books such as “South to Louisiana.”

Don Rich, says Swamp Pop compared with Cajun/Zydeco music are like first cousins (i.e. they are related, but have different parents.

Swamp Pop music is now considered the music of the Bayou Cajuns and associated with dance halls on the edges of the Atchafalaya basin.

It could be argued that just like the Atchafalaya Basin created Bayou Cajuns, it also spawned a genre of music now identified as Swamp Pop.

After all, it is called Swamp Pop, not Cajun pop or Zydeco pop

Swamp Pop music is Dance Hall Music… made to dance by and not just to listen to.

So come out and dance your heart out ... (Ken Vaughn and Marlin Guillory) in the cool ... ie., new Air Conditioned BPHA activity center (old Gym).

Relive the Heritage and help support our Heritage association.

In the Spirit of the old dance halls and church fairs... see ya ther

Community meeting tonight at Heritage Hall...  6 :00 pm come out and visit with Chris Daigle parish president ... your c...
05/02/2024

Community meeting tonight at Heritage Hall... 6 :00 pm come out and visit with Chris Daigle parish president ... your chance to provide input on what you would like to see our parish government work on...

speak now ...

BPHA serving our parish.

04/24/2024

Join us starting in one week for our Iberville Community Meetings! Mark your calendars and be part of the conversation that shapes the future of Iberville. The new administration, led by Parish President Chris Daigle, is eager to engage with YOU! These meetings will be held in various locations throughout the parish, making it convenient for all residents to participate. Come meet with our administration and your council members to share your thoughts and ideas on how we can enhance Iberville together. Your voice matters, and together, we can make Iberville even better!

Can't make it to a meeting? We still want to hear from you! Complete our survey and let us know a compliment or concern you have about Iberville Parish: https://forms.gle/nYmADYxcKAqZ7dE29

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What's on our mind? Crawfest June 1 st  2024This year is going to be the best and biggest yet  ... our largest raffle it...
04/21/2024

What's on our mind?

Crawfest June 1 st 2024

This year is going to be the best and biggest yet ... our largest raffle items in BPHA history

$5 raffle -

1. Aluminum Boat w/ 15hp motor & trailer.

2.Trophy Alligator hunt with trophy head mount included

You can Venmo payment ... for tickets ...easy peasy

Venmo:  ... In the comments on Venmo, please put your phone number and boat raffle ... CRAWFEST Event ...Saturday, June 1st.

We will have the biggest crawfish of this season ... all 'Grande's Seasoned to perfection ... by our award-winning chefs ...

At that dance that evening we will be serving our famous BPHA Jambalaya for supper ... everyone remembers our jambalaya from the last two years ...

Our brand new BPHA museum will be open to the public that day ... free ... if you have not heard about it ... here is what Mr. Don Haydel retired director of the Louisiana DNR Atchafalaya Basin program said ... "The museum is a compact yet powerful place to intimately view the history of the community and the Atchafalaya Basin ...It is a rich experience for those who are familiar with the area and for visitors to the area."

In the Spirit of the former St. Joan of Arc church Fairs ... be there

For more information and or vendor booths contact our Crawfest Chair persons ...

Ms. Patty Phillips - 225 776 1706, Mr. Nolan Hughet - 225 571 2505, Mr. Randy Laprarie - 225 385 1050, Mr. Chris Settoon - 225 776 3816

ALLON Pigeon ...

What's our mind ... it's crawfish ... what else ?Bayou Pigeon  Crawfest  2024 ,  Sat June 1 Serving Only Crawfish  Caugh...
04/09/2024

What's our mind ... it's crawfish ... what else ?

Bayou Pigeon Crawfest 2024 , Sat June 1

Serving Only Crawfish Caught By Home Grown Bayou Pigeon Fisherman ... Come On By and Support Our Heritage …

Only #1’s Crawfish And Freshness

Allons Pigeon

What's on our mind... why it's Peter Cottontail ...  hopping down the Bunny Trail   The Bayou Pigeon Easter egg is back ...
03/20/2024

What's on our mind... why it's Peter Cottontail ... hopping down the Bunny Trail The Bayou Pigeon Easter egg is back on this Sunday, No bad weather predicted for this Sunday May 24 ...

Grab up the kiddo's and make to the Bayou Pigeon Heritage complex for a grand old time ,,, it;s free ... it;s free

Easter Egg Hunt scheduled for this this weekend has been cancelled because of severe weather forecast for this weekend.R...
03/14/2024

Easter Egg Hunt scheduled for this this weekend has been cancelled because of severe weather forecast for this weekend.

Rescheduled for March 24, 2024, ... everything scheduled for March 17 date will be for carried over to the 24. Same start time, etc.

Sorry for any inconveniences this causes anyone of our followers who planned to attend the event.

Check our page periodically for if any other changes for any of our planned events.

Our Fried Fish dinners for this Friday March 15, is still on ... and tickets are still available ... we may miss the most of the bad weather predicted for Sat. and Sunday.

BPHA Mission ….

The preservation, promotion, perpetuation, education and enhancement of the past and present living histories, culture, heritage and folk life of the Swamp Cajuns of Bayou Pigeon and sponsoring events which benefit the community of Bayou Pigeon, Iberville Parish, and Louisiana.

We appreciate our Facebook followers... so keep on keeping on with the BPHA

Bayou Pigeon Heritage followers ... our Board of directors met last evening go over this Fridays Fried fish Dinners  RSV...
03/12/2024

Bayou Pigeon Heritage followers ... our Board of directors met last evening go over this Fridays Fried fish Dinners RSVP .... it is looking good we have sold over 125 tickets sold thus far...

We are expecting to pick up quite a few more (RSVP's ) before Friday...

To ensure everyone who wants a dinner can get one we you to contact us if you still want to purchase tickets.

We plan to have a few extra dinners for folks who at last minute show at the door to purchase a dinner.

But that is no guarantee ... if you want to a reserve a dinner please call one of the people listed below ...

We are trying very hard to ensure we have enough fish on hand...

It takes a lot work to put on an event like this ... from fish skinners to Fry crew ....

Remember our Folklife Museum will be open to all the Dine in people and we will have the main attraction of our Carwfest June 1, 2024 , a brand new beautiful aluminum boat, motor and trailer. that will be raffling off.

it is going to be a special day...

Come out and preserve our heritage ...

BPHA Fish Fry...Inquiring Minds want  To Know: Should The Headline Of Their Calendar-of-events Listings Be Fish “Fries” ...
03/08/2024

BPHA Fish Fry...

Inquiring Minds want To Know: Should The Headline Of Their Calendar-of-events Listings Be Fish “Fries” Or Fish “Frys”?

Bayou Pigeon Heritage Fish Fry March 15, 2024 5:30 – 7:00 pm

Pick up or Dine In

The Fish Fry is a long establish staple of the Catholic Church Lenten Fridays..

Inquiring minds need to know: Should the headline of their calendar-of-events listings be Fish “Fries” Or Fish “Frys”?

Let’s dispense with what we know the plural of fish fry is not.

Anyone who uses fish “fry’s” — where the apostrophe somehow tricks the brain into believing a possessive is a plural — is hereby required to talk with Ms. Patricia Settoon, 5 th grade English teacher at Crecent School for 35 years.

For whom the improper use of an apostrophe would bring on a case of having to repeat the fifth grade.

David Robinson, an executive of the Linguistic Society of America, which will meet with its 1,200 members says, there are rules to be followed, even when both possible answers look wrong.

The plural of Fish Fry is “Fish Fries”

Undoubtedly, the “Fries” Vs. “Frys” debate will roil on at 350 degrees for decades.

In the meantime, be sure to purchase your tickets before the next BPHA Fish Fry march 15 , 2024

Buy on line through PAY Pal … Purchase tickets in advance here:

https://py.pl/ksoWB

Bayou  Pigeon Heritage Followers …  If you have  / use a Pay Pal account  to buy things …  you can purchase our Fried Fi...
02/29/2024

Bayou Pigeon Heritage Followers …

If you have / use a Pay Pal account to buy things … you can purchase our Fried Fish Feast dinners for March 15 from our BPHA page.in

See these Explanatory Instructions … if you can facebook they make very easy to follow the process if ...

check out the slides in the pictures below...

if you have problems ... just give me holler ...225 776 2686

BPHA Lenten Fried Fish Feast ...
02/28/2024

BPHA Lenten Fried Fish Feast ...

BPHA followers... well we finally got our Fried Fish Lenten Dinner "Event planner working as intended...  the Hyperlink ...
02/27/2024

BPHA followers... well we finally got our Fried Fish Lenten Dinner "Event planner working as intended... the Hyperlink is now working ...

You can now point and click the hyperlink and reserve and pay for your dinners in advance.

You can drive up and pick up your dinners and be out in minutes.

If you want to dine in you can speed up the process as well... we will have tables and chairs set up in BPHA activity Center.

Where you can socialize and visit with likeminded people who love the comradery of Bayou Pigeon and maybe see someone you haven't seen awhile.

We will have the BPHA folklife museum open for Dine in folks. Come celebrate the history and heritage of Bayou Pigeon ... you will impressed no kidding ...

Purchase tickets in advance here: https://py.pl/ksoWB

looking forward to seeing you there ... Mr. Nolan Huguet has his team of fry cooks ready to go...

we will have homemade desserts as well ... we may even a peice of of a Bayou Pigeon favorite.... Peanut Butter icing cake as well

Bayou Pigeon Heritage followers ...Check out this new exhibit to our Folklife museum.“Settoon’s Crawfish Sacks” Business...
02/14/2024

Bayou Pigeon Heritage followers ...

Check out this new exhibit to our Folklife museum.

“Settoon’s Crawfish Sacks” Business at Bayou Pigeon

The Louisiana Crawfish industry created a huge number of ancillaries of upstream and downstream business which encompasses a whole chain of sub-industries. Data from Louisiana Crawfish Board says in 2010 more than 7,000 people depend directly or indirectly on the crawfish industry

In the late 1950’s, when crawfishing was replacing catfishing as the cash cow at Bayou Pigeon, Irvin & Mildred Settoon Family at Bayou Pigeon, LA recognized an opportunity to develop a sideline business with the intent to generate additional income for the family.

There were very few sack makers in the immediate area. Crawfishing was fast becoming the fastest growing economic generator and they were going to need a lot more sacks. They had some experience in the business.

Irvin Settoon's father Mr. Archie had a sack making business but had shut it down in the late 1940's so they had an idea of how to get started. They bought a new sewing machine recognizing crawfish sacks would become a growing business.

They started on a shoestring budget buying a commercial sewing machine and set up shop under the carport of their home at Bayou Pigeon.

The plan was that Ms. Mildred was the principal worker and the whole Settoon family, Irvin and all the children would be the part time employees as well as several of Mildred’s sisters.

Irvin and Mildred Settoon quickly learned and improved this new business. Plastic mesh sacks were initially used as onion sacks in produce business. Over time the technology changed, Irving and Mildred moved to using a poly mesh crawfish sack because it had many benefits, including better durability.. First and foremost, you did not have to worry about them getting wet and coming apart.


Irving and Mildred used a poly mesh crawfish sack because it durability. First and foremost, you did not have to worry about them getting wet and coming apart.

Gill moisture, air circulation are critical to keeping crawfish alive and healthy throughout their transportation. Gill moisture is accomplished by periodic wetting of crawfish and / or placement of wet burlap or ice over the sacks.

This is a critical control point in the process otherwise you could have extra expense replacing dead crawfish.

Stitching strength is one of the most critical steps in sack making. The tensile load in the seam edge direction and the seam bottom direction is specified.

Sack material comes in bales typically 3 to 5 ft wide. The material is then rolled out measured and cut and then sewn into sacks.

When Irvin and Mildred started making sacks they were designed to hold 42 - 47 pounds, 21 x 35"

Typically sacks today or sized 17” x 28”, to hold between 32 – 38 pounds of live crawfish, depending on the size of the crawfish.

Settoon Sack business crawfish sacks were designed with a heavy-duty woven draw tape for easy and secure closure. Finished sacks were sold in bundles of 100 and 500.

Crawfish sacks come in 4 main colors: Red: These sacks are typically used for peelers. Purple and Green: Due to the reddish color of pond crawfish, they look more appealing in a purple and green sacks. Yellow usually for the graded, select crawfish but not all the time.

Most crawfish sacks were sold to local wholesale buyers, who would then resell them to the fishermen and peeling plant processors.

Irvin and Mildred had a reputation of being hard workers, reliable, honest and integrity. The business was built on their brand. You could count on them in an emergency.

Balancing a full-time job and family obligations with any sideline business can be challenging, Settoon’s Crawfish Sack business had a run of 20 years.

They made and delivered many thousands of crawfish sacks to the various crawfish buyers / wholesalers and commercial fisherman on the east side of the Atchafalaya Basin.

When their children got older and married and were no longer around to help, they decided to shut it down.

Today, there are only memories left, but this old sewing machine placed here in the BPHA folklife museum stands to preserve this folklife / culture for future generations.

Preserve the Heritage

Bayou Pigeon Heritage association followers ... the Irvin Settoon family celebrated Mr. Irvin 94 birthday in the Gym on ...
02/09/2024

Bayou Pigeon Heritage association followers ... the Irvin Settoon family celebrated Mr. Irvin 94 birthday in the Gym on Feb 3.

The Settoon family had a lot of out of Bayou Pigeon guest there.

They had some Gaudet first cousins... that attended...Hazel and Janice daughters of Raymond Gaudet and Alma AuCoin Gaudet.

They are first cousin to a lot of people in Bayou Pigeon Heritage, Chris Settoon, Joe Settoon, Diane Solar LeGrange, Gary Solar, Patty Leblanc Phillips, Peggy LeBlanc Zeringue, Darlene Gaudet Hebert, Charlene Gaudet Hebert, Trudy Settoon Monismith, Tammy Settoon Landry to name a few.

They did a lot of reminiscing and they enjoyed visiting the museum.

They did not know much about Bayou Pigeon history.

We showed them a couple of Gaudet family histories they had not seen them before. They were raised in Venice, LA. and then moved to Texas after high school.

Anyway I told them i would send them a copy of the Gaudet Ancestry and history

I have updated my Wallace Gaudet Ancestry and History blog story to send to Hazel, Janice, Irene , Brenda and Skipper.

Thought i would share with BPHA, because there are a grandkids and great grandkids of the Wallace Gaudet family ... second and third cousins ... who are followers of BPHA... who more than likely do not know their heritage.

enjoy ... check out the hyperlink

This blog is part of our continuing research to compliment our book, “Bayou Pigeon, LA - Spirit of the Atchafalaya.”

What's on our mind today...A follow up on our Annual Meeting and Appreciation Dinner last Sunday ... 1 28 2024...We want...
02/01/2024

What's on our mind today...

A follow up on our Annual Meeting and Appreciation Dinner last Sunday ... 1 28 2024...

We want to welcome our new lifetime members and to thank all our lifetime members for their generous contributions.

New life time members ...

Randy & Roberta Coupel LaPrarie
David & Valerie Berthelot
Becky Clement
Dee & Lloyd Hymel
David O'Flynn
Delphine & Baxter Stewart
Wes & Emily Withrow
Dale Zorthian
Frank & Von Williams

Please be aware that your lifetime membership donation is greatly appreciated.

A lifetime membership entitles you to a one annual free rental / use of ANY BPHA facility.

The funds will allow us to continue to making improvements to our facility and sponsoring Community / Civic events. in them.

For example on May 11, 2024 , the BPHA will host a Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Boaters Safety course in our Activity Center.

Which will be open to the public and is a good public service event to have at Bayou Pigeon since we are primarily an Atchafalaya Basin Fishing community.

We will provide an updated membership list as soon as we get the list from our team... we picked up close to 40 renewals at the event.

Making it a worthwhile effort and event ... we received all positive comments from the folks that attended about the crawfish etouffee and our folklife museum.

Preserving our heritage and Bayou Pigeon Heritage Associationn Proud ...

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01/29/2024

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Bayou Pigeon Heritage Association Facebook followers who could not make the grand opening of our Folklife museum check out the video made by Mr. Rick Phillips.

We sincerely appreciate all the folks who turned out for the opening ...

Bayou Pigeon Proud ....

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39315 LA-75
Plaquemine, LA
70764

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10am - 11:30am

Telephone

+12257762686

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