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Wedell-Williams Aviation Museum Cajun Coast

It’s #NationalAviationDay – Visit Your Local Museum

National Aviation Week is celebrated this year August 15-21. It’s always during week of Orville Wright’s birthday – August 19.

National Aviation Day is observed each year on August 19th. This day is dedicated by Presidential Proclamation to those who helped pioneer aviation in the United

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ABC's of Shrimp & Petroleum Festival

Your ABCs Guide to S&P

The Louisiana Shrimp & Petroleum Festival is the state’s oldest chartered harvest festival, held every Labor Day weekend in Morgan City.

It’s been repeatedly hailed as a Top 20 event by Southeast Tourism Society and the Louisiana Office of Culture Recreation and Tourism as well as being awarded Most Outstanding

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Sugar Cane Cajun Coast

5 Ways to Celebrate Sugar Cane Day

Sugar, spice and everything nice. Grand plantations and sprawling countryside. These are the diverse images evoked by a commodity that means $2.7 billion to the Louisiana economy.

Driving from one end of St. Mary Parish to the other, visitors can’t help but notice field after field of sugarcane, a grass-like

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Welcome Dixie Youth Baseball

Welcome Dixie Youth

The Cajun Coast Visitors & Convention Bureau would like to welcome the players, coaches, family members and friends of the Dixie Youth 10- and 12-year-old South Regional Majors tournament and North Regional AAA tournament.

We will play host to 32 teams of Dixie Youth players (480 players and coaches) July

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Why is Monday Red Beans and Rice, Cajun Coast

Why is Monday Red Beans and Rice Day?

In the 19th century, Monday typically was laundry day. Without a washing machine, the lady of the house tended to every article of clothing by hand. That didn’t leave much time for cooking, so dinner had to be something that required

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Last Honky Tonk Music Series Cajun Coast

Honky Tonk Hometown

The Last Honky Tonk Music Series brings national acts to small communities across the country, creating a camaraderie between artists and music lovers.

The series is a volunteer network comprised of artists, venue owners, radio programmers, sponsors, music industry professionals and music lovers now headquartered in Morgan City, LA

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Sunsets on the Cajun Coast

Get Social with #CajunCoast: Featured Photo

Instagram poster @tltickets, whose real name is Tara Gauthreaux, has a feed full primarily of one gorgeous nature shot after another.

If she is a painter of sunrises, sunsets and gorgeous skyscapes, then Louisiana is her canvas.

This shot, captured in April, particularly captured our hearts because of its

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Family-friendly activities on the Cajun Coast

Family-Friendly Activities on the #CajunCoast

Temperatures are soaring and the kids need something constructive to do now that they’re out of school. Grab a snoball, put your feet up and review these family-friendly activities on the Cajun Coast.

Swimming/ Splash/ Spray Parks/ Beaches

—Morgan City Public Pool, 611 Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard,

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Romantic hikes on the Cajun Coast

#SmallTownProblems, #BigDatingIssues

This week’s post is courtesy of KeenVision, author of the blog #ibedamned.

When you live in a small community, dating can be somewhat of a daunting bid; like buying shoes at the one shoe store in town and later wearing them in public only to find out that everyone

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Wedell-Williams Aviation Museum Cajun Coast

It’s #NationalAviationDay – Visit Your Local Museum

National Aviation Week is celebrated this year August 15-21. It’s always during week of Orville Wright’s birthday – August 19.

National Aviation Day is observed each year on August 19th. This day is dedicated by Presidential Proclamation to those who helped pioneer aviation in the United

Read More »
ABC's of Shrimp & Petroleum Festival

Your ABCs Guide to S&P

The Louisiana Shrimp & Petroleum Festival is the state’s oldest chartered harvest festival, held every Labor Day weekend in Morgan City.

It’s been repeatedly hailed as a Top 20 event by Southeast Tourism Society and the Louisiana Office of Culture Recreation and Tourism as well as being awarded Most Outstanding

Read More »
Sugar Cane Cajun Coast

5 Ways to Celebrate Sugar Cane Day

Sugar, spice and everything nice. Grand plantations and sprawling countryside. These are the diverse images evoked by a commodity that means $2.7 billion to the Louisiana economy.

Driving from one end of St. Mary Parish to the other, visitors can’t help but notice field after field of sugarcane, a grass-like

Read More »
Welcome Dixie Youth Baseball

Welcome Dixie Youth

The Cajun Coast Visitors & Convention Bureau would like to welcome the players, coaches, family members and friends of the Dixie Youth 10- and 12-year-old South Regional Majors tournament and North Regional AAA tournament.

We will play host to 32 teams of Dixie Youth players (480 players and coaches) July

Read More »
Why is Monday Red Beans and Rice, Cajun Coast

Why is Monday Red Beans and Rice Day?

In the 19th century, Monday typically was laundry day. Without a washing machine, the lady of the house tended to every article of clothing by hand. That didn’t leave much time for cooking, so dinner had to be something that required

Read More »
Last Honky Tonk Music Series Cajun Coast

Honky Tonk Hometown

The Last Honky Tonk Music Series brings national acts to small communities across the country, creating a camaraderie between artists and music lovers.

The series is a volunteer network comprised of artists, venue owners, radio programmers, sponsors, music industry professionals and music lovers now headquartered in Morgan City, LA

Read More »
Sunsets on the Cajun Coast

Get Social with #CajunCoast: Featured Photo

Instagram poster @tltickets, whose real name is Tara Gauthreaux, has a feed full primarily of one gorgeous nature shot after another.

If she is a painter of sunrises, sunsets and gorgeous skyscapes, then Louisiana is her canvas.

This shot, captured in April, particularly captured our hearts because of its

Read More »
Family-friendly activities on the Cajun Coast

Family-Friendly Activities on the #CajunCoast

Temperatures are soaring and the kids need something constructive to do now that they’re out of school. Grab a snoball, put your feet up and review these family-friendly activities on the Cajun Coast.

Swimming/ Splash/ Spray Parks/ Beaches

—Morgan City Public Pool, 611 Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard,

Read More »
Romantic hikes on the Cajun Coast

#SmallTownProblems, #BigDatingIssues

This week’s post is courtesy of KeenVision, author of the blog #ibedamned.

When you live in a small community, dating can be somewhat of a daunting bid; like buying shoes at the one shoe store in town and later wearing them in public only to find out that everyone

Read More »

Distance Together on the Cajun Coast