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William J. Thibodeaux

William J. Thibodeaux is a native of Rayne, Louisiana. He attended Rayne High School and joined the U.S. Navy in 1967 when he was 18 years of age. After his military obligation, William took a job with Southern Pacific Railroad in 1970 as a track laborer, repairing the railroad, preforming maintenance to the track structure, and inspecting the railroad for defects. He retired with more than 44 years of service. This is his third book.


Schedule

10:15 am to 11:15 am

Capitol Park Museum, Auditorium

Chronicles of South Louisiana

with Errol Laborde and William J. Thibodeaux

 

11:30 am to 12:15 pm

Cavalier House Books Tent

Book Signing


Cajun Country Chronicles

Author William Thibodeaux shares a bevy of Cajun Country tales.

From shocking one offs to delightful immersion into the quotidian lives of Cajuns long deceased, we find ourselves with a satisfying grab bag of Cajun history. A murder becomes a case that winds its all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. A feud erupts into a shootout on election day 1924 with three dead and four injured. One ordinary Cajun is torn between two passion—photography and railroading. Another young man rises to the rank of postmaster. Cajun music is reborn in these pages, and the university in Lafayette is founded. The legality of the Louisiana Purchase comes under scrutiny here, and communities lost to the great floor of 1927 are remembered, as is the once unthinkable banning of the French language on public-school grounds. During the yellow fever epidemic, one town tries to save itself by banning all inbound trains from NOLA. Another city in the region is befallen by a curse placed on its boundaries.