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 ...

Some of the original Acadian settlers are represented in portraits of their descendants that will be on display as part of the 16th Acadian Memorial Heritage Festival in St. Martinville this weekend.

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 ...

NEW ORLEANS, La. (WVUE) - Our great-great ancestors often had to find remedies for illness in their own gardens. Those healing traditions are still being taught at an Acadian village in Lafayette.

Port Royal, Grande Pre, Pisiguit and Cobequid were just names of places discovered in Bona Arsenault’s book "Histoire et Genealogie des Acadiens" until a trip to Nova Scotia made them real.

LOREAUVILLE, La. (The Daily Advertiser) – The New Acadia Project, an effort to find the home of the first Acadians in south Louisiana, has received two significant boosts. On April 11, Loreauville ...

When French men and women sailed the Atlantic Ocean from their home country to the new world, starting in the early 17th century, they retained their cultural ties to France while leaving the French ...

August 15th marked a meaningful day across Acadiana as communities gathered to celebrate National Acadian Day, honoring the descendants of French settlers who were exiled from Canada in the 18th ...

MAN is a lover and maker of myths. From prejudice, from chivalry, from patriotism, from mental sloth, from sheer inability to know the thing which is, and tell a plain tale, neither adding nor abating ...

Virginia-based writer Michael Twitty’s ‘Recipes from the American South’ focuses on iconic dishes as well as those long ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Acadia doesn’t just refer to the famous national park that draws many ...

ST. MARTINVILLE, La. (WVUE) - 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 ...