The Acadian Village is made up on a bayou and simple buildings that had history. They were disassembled and reconstructed in the village.
I’m slowly getting to know the town of Lafayette. It seems to be a laid back town with comfortable connections with its past.
It was the first night for the Festival International de Louisiana and I was there at the opening. The venue was outdoors with a broad stage with a five piece band. The announcer who introduced T-Sale' Cajun Band first spoke in Cajun French then English. It was the biggest dance I've seen in years; 100's of folks of all sizes, shapes, age and color dancing to Cajun music. The thing that surprised me the most was that strangers were dancing with strangers. Men would ask women with their husbands at their sides to dance and away they'd go. There were women there with baby strollers (they seem to congregate in front of me. It looked like a kiddie parking lot) abandoning their children to go out and dance while other moms watched their kids. Plus older women dancing with younger men and vis versa. And people talking to people; blacks talking to whites and whites talking to blacks. Again comfortable. What a grand night!
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