T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History Collection

ABSTRACT

INTERVIEWEE NAME: Louis Comeaux

COLLECTION: 4700.0744

IDENTIFICATION: [1911- ] Retired sugarcane sharecropper; life-long resident of Four Corners, an unincorporated community south of Franklin, Louisiana.

INTERVIEWER: Adrienne LaCour, graduate student in landscape architecture, LSU

PROJECT: Four Corners Community Center landscape design project.

DATE: January 27, 1993

FOCUS DATES: 1925-1950

ABSTRACT:

Tape 1080

Childhood as son of cane farmer; early work in Avery Island salt mine; farming as sharecropper; routine of sugarcane planting and harvest; farm labor; early transportation; traditional foods including couche-couche, cracklins; the boucherie; production of cane syrup; contentment in Four Corners.

TAPE: 1080

TOTAL PLAYING TIME: 45 minutes

INDEX: 3 pages

RESTRICTIONS: None