Refer to the books at the end of this column for a more extensive list. The unique structure marries a 1790 two-room French log cabin with a circa 1840 bousillage addition. A central chimney serves the fireplaces in each room. The cabin served as a house, jail and hospital on Parlange Plantation before it was moved to its present site and use. Furnishings such as the trundle bed, armoire, loom, corn-shuck broom and wall colors represent the cabin s appearance in the 1840s.
Exhibits focus on sugar production in a rural parish along the Mississippi River.
The former is a slave cabin from the Allendale Plantation. The Alliet House is a French-Creole dwelling typical of plantations along the Mississippi River. Check with the museum for dates of demonstrations of sugar grinding, boiling, music and crafts. Exhibits include the tools for fishing and trapping, Acadian history, language, foods, music and religion when communities were only accessible by boat and French was the daily language. Check with the center for a schedule of plays and local musicians in the theater.