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Basile Mardi Gras Association 2014
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Basile Mardi Gras Association
Mardi Gras Season ~ 2014
The Saturday evening immediately prior to Mardi Gras in the town of Eunice in St Landry Parish out on the Cajun Prairie of southwestern Louisiana the Jambalaya Cajun Band and the Basile Mardi Gras Association descend on the Liberty Theater for some music, dancing, history and Mardi Gras shenanigans.
Mardi Gras in the small towns of Acadiana is still a traditional family affair deeply rooted in one’s Catholic religion and heritage, the Cajun music, and the history of one’s Cajun community .
The final celebration of friends, community, music & dance and food prior to the start of Lent.
The Cajun communities of Acadiana introduce their children and youth to the history, culture and ways of Mardi Gras at a young age. The Cajun culture: language, food, music & dance and history are passed down and along by word.
Laissez les bons temps rouler!
Crawfishin’ With Michael Brown
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Around the perimeter of 14 acres of low-lying-flooded southwestern Louisiana farmland moves the weekend crawfishermen pushes his floating harvesting rig.
Seeing the guy with the camera he hollers questioningly: “Reporter?”
The negative reply and he responds knowingly: (unvoiced but implicit: HA!) “Tourist!”
This met with voiced laughter from the guy with the camera.
Michael Brown of Eunice, Louisiana in St Landry Parish ‘schools’ the ‘guy with the camera’ in a gentle fashion on crawfishin’, crawfish, Lent and Mardi Gras. 
Lineage and bonafides are established: Brown of original German settler descent.
Thoughts and views are shared on Louisiana public education & parental responsibilities.
Stories are told of Louisiana politics and the politically adept uncle.
Crawfish slides under the Catholic Lenten prohibition on eating meat so the Cajuns chow down and a seasonal market exists.
The crawfish harvest season so far has been challenging: unsettled, cold. Like all farming crawfishing turns on the weather.
This season the per pound cost for crawfish is high – over $3.00.
