After nearly 20 years, pirogue racing returned to the Town of Jean Lafitte Saturday (July 21) at the town's newly opened Jules Nunez Seafood Pavilion and AJ & Sheron Fabre Market on Bayou Barataria.
The small Jefferson Parish town of Jean Lafitte is bringing back a sporting event that used to draw thousands of spectators and some of the strongest paddling arms in the state. On Saturday (July 21), ...
As indigenous to the bayou country as Mardi Gras are pirogues (canoes dug out of cypress logs). Louisiana’s first mode of transportation, pirogues are still used by Cajun and Baratarian trappers to ...