OK, about two years ago I remember someone mentioning a book about the people who left Canada and came to New Orleans. Its a famous song. Does this ring a bell with anyone? I guess someoen was going to write a book about it. Desiree? Angelina? Grrr, I can't remember.
Thanks
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French Cajuns..or something like that? Book Help
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Evangeline by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was the inspiration for this book by Ben Farmer, also titled Evangeline.
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The Song?
Might be Evangeline by the Band with Emmy Lou Harris singing. It's a very beautiful song about a woman waiting for her love, Bayou Dan from south Louisian, to return on a Mississippi Queen. She "watches from the banks of the mighty Mississippi that Queen go under."
I might have mentioned it to you at the last HNS conference. I was writing a book ab the Acadian deportation at the time. I remember sitting at a table one night with a librarian--dark hair if I recall correctly.
But yes, the story is beautiful. The history behind the story itself is interesting too, Nathaniel Hawthorne mentioned a legend he'd heard to Longfellow one night at dinner and Longfellow expanded upon it and turned it into Evangeline.
But yes, the story is beautiful. The history behind the story itself is interesting too, Nathaniel Hawthorne mentioned a legend he'd heard to Longfellow one night at dinner and Longfellow expanded upon it and turned it into Evangeline.