Life at the Atchafalaya

By Clarence J. Domingue

I dedicate this book to my wife, Delight, because she has been after me to put this information in writing for many years.
Also to my grandchildren and great-grandchildren, so they will know me better.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Dec 19, 2012
• ISBN: 9781479767366

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Copyright © 2013 by Clarence J. Domingue.

Library of Congress Control Number:       2012923601

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CONTENTS

1   Journey To The New World

2   Change Of Occupation—Farming To Commercial Fishing

3   The Flood Of 1927

4   The Levee System

5   My Education

6   My GI Bill Of Rights

7   Sam’s Health Was Failing Fast

8   Cathodic Protection

9   My Duties Were Many, Lake Charles (1973)

10   I Returned To Erath, LA, And Tom Retired

11   Education Deficiency—International Correspondence School

12   Crawfish Season

13   Plans For Any Achieve Much, Eighty-Four Achievement

I dedicate this book to my wife, Delight, because she has been after me to put this information in writing for many years.

Also to my grandchildren and great-grandchildren, so they will know me better.

1

JOURNEY TO THE NEW WORLD

On October 28, 1778, the ship named San Ignacio de Loyola sailed from the island of Tenerife on its way to Louisiana and, on January 9, 1779, arrived at the mouth of the Mississippi River and settled at Barataria, Louisiana, in Jean Lafitte, the pirate headquarters. This is also the place where I was born—on either June 22 or 26, 1928—about 149 years later, the place where my people would return almost every year to trap muskrats, minks, coons, etc., and sell the furs. Also that year, my father, Jean Baptist (French for John Baptist), and his father made enough money to build a houseboat each; our dimensions were fourteen by twenty-six and cost $125, and it was made of cypress. I remember him telling the story many times. This was the winter of 1927/1928.

My mother’s maiden name was Louvian Adams (French for Adana), born February 2, 1901, at Gibson, Louisiana. Because she did not like the name Louvian, she translated the name to Lorena so that all her records would show Lorena. Her father was Theodore Joseph Adams Jr. My father was born on September 19, 1902, in Pierre Part, Assumption Parish, Louisiana. Mother’s people were some of the people who were exiled from Nova Scotia and placed in Maine by their people