Before great-grandpa Gerard died in 1935 at the age of 651 , he had already allocated his property to his six children. He must have owned over 600 acres when he died. When I asked how he came to own so much land, a relative said she heard talk that he would lend people money with…
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A new prairie in the neighborhood
Imagine driving down a country road in Southwest Louisiana. It’s flat as far as you can see, with occasional brick houses and mobile homes facing the road, and expansive tracts of sugarcane fields, crawfish and rice ponds, or fallow fields making up the rest. There are almost certainly some cattle grazing in pastures along your…
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