Bayou Pigeon Heritage Association

01/22/2025

Our Heritage Hall on 01 20 2025...

A historical picture ... more snow on this day in than ever recorded.

Picture by Rick Phillips and cleaned up by Mr. Adam Landry

We are so very proud of our Heritage Hall ... it is a walk through our History of Bayou Pigeon .. it is available for rent for any occasion.

Check us out at www.bayoupigeon.com

01/18/2025

01/09/2025

This meeting is open to public and the Bayou Pigeon Heritage association folklife museum will be open... come check us out and food and drink and live music ... free, free

01/08/2025

BPHA Facebook Followers – Everyone is invited (open to public) on Feb. 1, 2025 to the BPHA Heritage Association Annual Meeting … our agenda includes:

1. Call to order 1:00 pm, Opening Prayer, Pledge Of Allegiance
2. Reports, Secretary reports, Treasurer reports, Maintenance
3. Nominations of Officers Directors
4. Accepting new Membership for 2025 1;45 pm
5. Music by Kerwin LeBlanc (native son of Bayou Pigeon) starts 2:00 -4:00
6. Serving Crawfish Etoufee 3:00 pm

Your presence is highly appreciated. Please confirm your attendance by replying to this Facebook post. so we all can be better prepared

Check out the pictures below for information about our accomplishments in 2024 ... we have come a long way in the last 5 years

12/24/2024

Christmas message from the Bayou Pigeon Heritage Board of Directors.

The birth of Jesus has revolutionized the history of mankind. A little baby in an obscure grotto in Bethlehem thousands of years ago is able to revitalize this old world of ours with new life and hope.

To all our members We are so grateful for your support and your loyalty,

Please consider renewing your membership for 2025.

The Heritage Association has a very important place in our community with a memory of a great past and a beacon of light for our future generations. It is like our grandmother who gives us a sense of purpose, stability, and great hope for the future.

The Bayou Pigeon Heritage is unique in the sense that, Bayou Pigeon once was a small Cajun community, and the Catholic Church was the center of the community. There is still a very strong sense of attachment and cultural pride which goes back at least 4 generations.

Our mission is to keep alive our heritage faculties and offer community activities the same way our old church parish did from 1949 to 2017.

This Christmas may your blessings be many, your worries few, and days spent with those who mean the most to you.

Enjoy the presents under the tree, the people who put them there, and the extra spark of gratitude the season brings.

May the peace and joy of Christmas live in your hearts.

We will have the rosary at the usual time on Christmas Eve 10 am

Tis the reason for season Jesus Christ our savior was born.

Cliff LeGrange President
Chris Settoon Vice president
Cindy F Vaughn Secretary
Patty Phillips Treasurer

Berthelot, Marla Board Member
Blanchard, Sue. C Board Member
Carbo, Sandy Board Member
Denehy, Amy T Board Member
Easley, Chasity Board Member
Huguet, Nolan Board Member
Laprairie, Randy Board Member
Laprairie, Roberta Board Member
Leonard, Wilton Board Member
LeGrange, Diane Board Member
Mabile, Ryan Board Member
Phillips, Patrick Board Member
Settoon, Kristen Board Member
Mike Dupre Board Member
Settoon, Wallace Board Member
Settoon, Irving, (H) Board Member
Ken Blanchard Attorney (H) Board Member
Fr. Al Davidson (H) Board Member
Chris Daigle Ex offico Board Member

12/08/2024

Hurry … Flash Crowd wanted … the Christmas parade has been postponed …

But our Christmas pagent is on right now…

We have plenty of of people selling Christmas stuff …

Plus santa claus here taking pictures so bring the kiddos…

We are here till 4 pm…

Come on out and support Our community…

It looking good …

12/07/2024

Bayou Pigeon PARADE POSTPONED due to the weather, however the Event at the Bayou Pigeon Heritage Association will still be taking place!!! Hope to see you there!!!

Will post later with a date and time!!!

11/28/2024

From the BPHA .. to all of our F.B. followers Happy Thanksgiving ....

Did you know - Thanksgiving at Bayou Pigeon

Thanksgiving Day is a national holiday in the United States, and, in 2024, falls on Thursday, November 28.

Thanksgiving wasn't celebrated in Louisiana until 1846.

Historically, Thanksgiving meals in Cajun county Louisiana were different than the English speaking celebrations.

Instead of turkey as the main entree, wild duck was served as the center of the meal, due to duck being more available,

The distinctive Cajun culture and cuisine that we enjoy today evolved from the Acadian settlers and their descendants making do with what they could make or find on the bayou, and those things did not include what most Americans think of as staples of the Thanksgiving table -- turkey, mashed potatoes or cranberries.

In writing the Bayou Pigeon book, i interviewed Mr. Felix Berthelot, i don't remember how we got on the topic of Thanksgiving, but i remember him casually mentioning because most of the men of Bayou pigeon went hunting on Thanksgiving Day and if they didn't get their limit ...

Cajuns tended to cook what they had on hand. Therefore, gumbo was a popular entree dish for Thanksgiving because it could be adapted to whatever could be thrown into the pot.

Thanksgiving meals consisted of duck, desserts, gumbo other vegetables grown in the family garden.

Much of the food served in early Cajun Thanksgiving feasts included sweets, since sugar and sugar-cane products were readily available. Bread pudding, Gateau de Sirop (syrup cakes) were popular.

Happy Thanksgiving

Preserving our heritage and culture

P.S. Come visit the BPHA museum on Dec. 8 ...we will have it open for the BPHSA Christmas Celebration that day.

10/17/2024

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10/12/2024

Hey BPHA Facebook followers ...

We just finished all the preparation for tomorrow's Wild Beast Cook-Off... it is with great pride that we say everything is in place for a successful day tomorrow ...

The outdoor pavilion is ready, and we spots marked off for all Cajun cooks ... we will have 18 to 24 contestants the most in the 5-year history of the event.
The pavilion when we left tonight was a very impressive venue.

We will have a surprise for all the die-hard LSU fans ... we know a lot of people may want to leave early or not come at all becuase they do not want to miss a minute of the game ... Go to Ole Miss, go to Hell ...

We have purchased a 70-inch TV screen and will have it set up in the BPHA Activity Center to keep up with the game while activities in the (Gym) from 5 - 9.

So, no excuse not to show up...

This important fundraiser for BPHA. the revenue from this lets us offer the venue for the community-related events we sponsor and use our facilities throughout the rest of the year, ... like the upcoming Boo on the Bayou, or Christmas Activities, Easter Egg Hunt, and our Rosary Society and Shrine Chapel, and the new Bayou Pigeon Folklife Museum.

So please consider coming out and supporting us...

BPHA Board of Directors

10/10/2024

Hey Bayou Pigeon heritage followers in the world of Community Festival's and cultural food,

First impressions matter - a lot.

Our outdoor pavilion is more than place to get out of the rain...

Check out our improvements to the pavilion,

We invite all the people who had part in building the old pavilion to check it out... prepared to be impressed... if you know someone who worked on it

Invite them to come see it ... it will make you Bayou Pigeon proud

Special thanks to this team...Joe Richard, Rick Phillips, Randy Laprarie, Roberta Laprairie, Chris Settoon, Nolan Huguet, Marla Berthelot, Patty Phillips Amy Denehy, Cindy Vaughn, Larry Vaughn, Mike Dupre, Wilton Leonard, T Lloyd Hebert, Irvin Blanchard and special thanks to Neil Dupre and crew who painted the pavilion and young man named Trent ...

We expect these changes to improve our service and lead to high customer satisfaction.

Improving one project at a time with more to come...

come join our organization and volunteer to help...

Chachie