Mark Marchesi, “Fish Shacks; Yarmouth Bar, Nova Scotia” (2012), from Evangeline: A Tale of Modern Acadia (courtesy the artist and Daylight Books) Cover of Evangeline: A Tale of Modern Acadia (courtesy ...

ST. MARTINVILLE, La. (KLFY) — In the early 1800s, a wealthy Creole acquired property along Bayou Teche in St. Martin Parish to raise cotton, cattle, and sugarcane. “Et bienvenue aux ...

The Times-Picayune is marking the tricentennial of New Orleans with its ongoing 300 for 300 project, running through 2018 and highlighting the moments and people that connect and inspire us. Today, ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

Longfellow-Evangeline State Historic Site is hosting an event this weekend that is all about how things were done ‘back then.’ ‘Back in the Day: A Celebration of Folk Traditions’ happens Saturday, ...

Today is World Swift Day, and Longfellow-Evangeline State Park is celebrating Chimney Swifts. Longfellow-Evangeline State Historic Site Interpretive Ranger Jolene Adam is hoping visitors catch these ...

(WVUE) - What many people around the world know about Cajuns and how they were exiled from Canada likely comes from the famous poem "Evangeline." And although the love story is fiction, it may have ...

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, ...

One of Nova Scotia’s most beautiful drives takes you on a voyage into one of the more tragic epochs of Canadian history. In August 1755, Canada’s first European settlers, the Acadians, were expelled ...

When Henry Wadsworth Longfellow first put pen to paper, poetry was one of the most widespread forms of entertainment. Everyone from the common man to heads of state read Longfellow’s poems, just as ...