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My favorite pancake restaurant

When I was younger I loved pancakes. Excuse me, I loved MAPLE SYRUP. Pancakes were a way to get as much maple syrup on my plate, my hands, and my face.

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Claude Thomas Pierre Metoyer Day


This is an update on the grave of Claude Thomas Pierre Metoyer that I cleaned the other day. The Creole Heritage Center at NSU has announced that October 8, 2011 “has been proclaimed as Claude Thomas Pierre Metoyer Day in recognition of his service in the American Revolutionary War.”  The grave will be marked by…

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Claude Thomas Pierre Metoyer


Claude Thomas Pierre Metoyer was a French merchant and planter who had ten children with Marie Therese Coin-Coin, a woman born a slave who eventually gained freedom for herself and her children.  Their relationship began a community of ‘creoles of color’ along the Cane River area of Natchitoches parish.  This community has spread out from…

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Grave Cleaning — Evergreen Baptist Cemetery


On February 15 I headed east from Natchitoches and drove out to Evergreen Missionary Baptist Church near St. Maurice in Winn Parish.  The cemetery is beyond the church and sits on uneven and sometimes even hilly ground.  I was there to clean the grave of Mrs. Josephine Small, a flat concrete tablet with a vertical…

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