Do you have a journey story? The Acadian Memorial is seeking photos and stories to include in the traveling Smithsonian Exhibition Journey Stories during its stay in St. Martinville. Photos may be emailed to info@acadianmemorial.org or scanned free of charge by appointment on Tuesdays and Thursdays at Steve Comeaux Photography, 116 South New Market Street. Tell us your old and new journey stories about the St. Martinville area! See the intake form for more details.
Interested in being an exhibition attendant? If you enjoy meeting people, are dependable and have an interest in both local and American history, this is a great opportunity! Training will be provided. Please call or email the Acadian Memorial with your name and contact info, and let us know when you are available. 337-394-2258 or info@acadianmemorial.org.
Program Schedule
Saturday, May 28- Saturday July 9, 2011
Journey Stories Exhibition on display, hours of operation to be announced. Journey Stories uses imagery, audio and artifacts to “tell the individual stories that illustrate the critical roles travel and movement have played in building our diverse American Society.”
Location: Maison Duchamp, 201 S Main Street
Visit the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities website to read more about Journey Stories! http://www.leh.org/html/museum.html
Saturday, May 28, 2011
6:00 pm: Opening lecture: “St. Martin Parish Journeys”
Dr. Michael Martin, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Location: Trinity School Gymnasium, 201 Evangeline Blvd, within a block of the exhibition
7:00-9:00 pm: Opening reception
Location: Trinity School Gymnasium, 201 Evangeline Blvd, within a block of the exhibition
7:00 pm-9:00 pm: Exhibition opens to the public, Maison Duchamp, 201 S Main Street
Sunday, May 29, 2011, 7:00 am, 9:00 am, 11:00 am & 5:30 pm
Mass, journey theme
Location: St. Martin de Tours Catholic Church, 133 S Main Street
Thursday, June 2, 2011, 6:30 pm
Lecture: “African Founders of the Teche Country”
Dr. Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, Michigan State University
Location: Trinity School Gymnasium, 201 Evangeline Blvd, within a block of the exhibition
Thursday, June 9, 2011, 6:30 pm
Lecture: “Attakapas/Ishak: Exiled from a Home They Never Left.”
Dr. Ray Brassieur, University of Louisiana at Lafayette and Rachel Mouton, Atakapa-Ishak Nation of
Southeast Texas and Southwest Louisiana
Location: Trinity School Gymnasium, 201 Evangeline Blvd, within a block of the exhibition
Thursday, June 16, 2011, 6:30 pm
Lecture: Dr. Mary Farmer-Kaiser; The Civil War Experience of Amanda and Kate Stone
Location: Trinity School Gymnasium, 201 Evangeline Blvd, within a block of the exhibition
Friday, June 17, 2011, 7:30 pm
Lecture: Levert family lineage, from beginnings in France to establishment in St. Martinville
Ira Harkey III, Author of Black Sugar, based on the life and times of Jean Baptiste Levert
Location: Levert-St. John Plantation House, 6000 block of Resweber Hwy (Hwy 347) 
(Alternate location: St. Martinville Branch Library, 201 Porter St.)
Thursday, June 23, 2011, 6:30 pm
Lecture: “To Honor Our Veterans: An Oral History of World War II Veterans from the Bayou Country.”
Jason Theriot, University of Houston
Location: Trinity School Gymnasium, 201 Evangeline Blvd, within a block of the exhibition
Saturday, July 2, 2011, 6:00 pm
Lecture: "I'm Comin' Home: Dislocation and Return in the Music of South Louisiana."
Kevin Fontenot, Tulane University
Location: AV Room at Longfellow Evangeline State Park, 1200 N. Main Street
Tuesday, July 5 - Saturday, July 9, 2011, 7:30 pm (Subject to Change, call Opera House for updates, 337-394-6604)
Evangeline Players present an updated version of the musical Grand-Pré, by local artists Cody Daigle and Roy Bertucci. Pre-show special feature: one-act vignette created by Christy Dugas Maraist based on the novel Acadian
Reminiscences.
Location: Duchamp Opera House, 200 S Main Street
Phone number 337-394-6604
Journey Stories has been made possible in St. Martinville by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.
Journey Stories is part of Museum on Main Street, a collaboration between the Smithsonian Institution and State Humanities Councils nationwide. Support for Museum on Main Street has been provided by the United States Congress.
