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    Acadian Reminiscences : The True Story of Evangeline
    Acadian Reminiscences : The True Story of Evangeline
    Acadian Reminiscences : The True Story of Evangeline
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    Acadian Reminiscences : The True Story of Evangeline

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      Acadian Reminiscences - Felix Voorhies

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      Title: Acadian Reminiscences

      The True Story of Evangeline

      Author: Felix Voorhies

      Release Date: February 10, 2010 [eBook #31245]

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ACADIAN REMINISCENCES***

      E-text prepared by D Alexander

      and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team

      (http://www.pgdp.net)

      Acadian

      Reminiscences

      The True Story of Evangeline

      By Judge Felix Voorhies

      Introduction By Felix Birney Voorhies

      Price $2.00

      E. P. Rivas, Publisher

      New Orleans, Louisiana

      Copyright, 1907,

      by Felix Voorhies

      A Modern Conception of Evangeline

      Posed by Rev. A. T. Kempton

      Table of Contents

      List of Illustrations

      Introduction

      Acadian Reminiscences, depicting the True Life of Evangeline, is a story centered about the life of the Acadians whose descendants are now residents of the Teche Country also known as the Land of Evangeline.

      These people lived a pure and simple life with an unbounded devotion to their religion and with an unshakable faith in their God. Their love for one another is unparalleled in the annals of human history, to which may be attributed their fortitude and perseverance in their travels from Canada, upon being expelled by the British, to their chosen Land on the banks of Bayou Teche.

      The author, Judge Felix Voorhies, relates the story as it was told to him by his grandmother. The story begins by telling of the native land of these Acadians and of the village of St. Gabriel from which they were driven when the French Province was surrendered to the British. It tells of members of the same families being separated and placed aboard different ships and some never to see each other again. The story tells of their landing in Maryland and after some time, hearing that members of theirs and other families having landed in Louisiana. This news brought encouragement and determination, in face of great dangers, to travel to the beautiful Land of the Teche.

      The author was best able to present this story as it was handed down to him by word of mouth by his grandmother who adopted Evangeline when orphaned at an early age. The writer repeats the story in a simple narrative manner characteristic of the Acadians.

      To this day travelers may visit the quaint town of St. Martinsville on the banks of Bayou Teche and pay their respects at the grave shrine of Evangeline and for a few fleeting moments live the life of these early settlers.

      Because of the demands for this story and in tribute to Judge Felix Voorhies, my grandfather, a man of noble character, staunch patriotism and unerring judgment, I, together with all members of the Voorhies family, dedicate this book.

      FELIX BIRNEY VOORHIES.

      Chapter One

      Acadian

      Reminiscences

      With the true

      Story of Evangeline

      t seems but yesterday, and yet sixty years have passed away since my boyhood. How fleeting is time, how swiftly does old age creep upon us with its infirmities. The curling smoke, dispelled by the passing wind, the water that glides with a babbling murmur in the gentle stream, leave as deep a mark of their passage as do the fleeting days of man.

      I was twelve years old, and yet I can picture in my mind the noble simplicity of my father’s house. The homes of our fathers were not showy, but their appearance was smiling and inviting; they had neither quaintness nor gaudiness, but were as grand in their simplicity as the boundless hospitality of their owners, for no people were more generous or hospitable than the Acadians who settled in the magnificent and poetical wilds of the Teche country.

      My father’s house stood on a sloping hill, in the center of a large yard, whose finely laid rows of china

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