CMA Newspaper Articles: Before Opening Day

CMA Newspaper Articles - Before Opening Day

Congrés Mondial Acadien, Louisiane-1999 Main Page

'BEFORE CMA OPENING DAY' ARTICLES

• Congrés Mondial Acadien Calendar
• Congrès '99 to open with a flourish
• Priest prepares for French Mass at Southdown
• Bienvenue, y'all: CMA under way
• Acadians honor enduring culture
• Acadian descendents converge on La.
• Bourgeois clan to recognize its historical land
• Canadian Acadians trek to La.
• Acadian history rescued
• Petition by Warren Perrin
• Genealogy program set at Nicholls
• Congres Mondial is summer gathering for Acadians

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Acadian history rescued
Acadian records on exhibit at WBR musuem

By CHRIS FRINK, The Advocate, 7/31/99

"The church registers' pages are yellowed, the ink faded, the handwriting difficult and in French, but the names filling those pages are familiar to anyone in south Louisiana even 230 years after Acadians smuggled the books out of Canada."

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