Date:  Mon, 20 Mar 1995 12:21:38 -0600

From:  Shana Walton <swalton[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]WHALE.ST.USM.EDU>

Subject: Re: Cajun homesteads



I didn't see a personal email address so I'm posting this to the list, I

guess.



You can contact Maida Owens, director of the Louisiana Folklife Program,

in Baton Rouge at (504) 342-8180. No email. Part of her job is to keep up

with such things as folk architecture. She'll have some good ideas where

to send you for most picturesque, most "authentic," or whatever you want.



Also, FYI, in _Cajun Country_ by Ancelet, Edwards and Pitre,

(University Press of Mississippi, 1991) there's a

good, clearly-written, straight-forward-for-the-layperson section on folk

architecture with a bit of history, some photographs, house plans and

layouts, and a map showing house-type distributions in the state.



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Shana Walton

Mississippi Oral History Program

University of Southern Mississippi

swalton[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]whale.st.usm.edu

(601) 266-5606