Winding through time
Subtitle: the forgotten history and present-day peril of Bayou Manchac
By: Mary Ann Sternberg.
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 158
ISBN-13: 9780807132531
Subjects: Manchac, Bayou (La.) -- History; Manchac, Bayou, Region (La.) -- History; Manchac, Bayou (La.) -- Environmental conditions; Manchac, Bayou, Region (La.) -- Environmental conditions
Description: "Though once considered one of the most important waterways in the American southeast and a vital link in a shortcut from the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana's Bayou Manchac rests in virtual obscurity today. Few now notice the bayou?which runs for eighteen miles, forming the boundary between several south Louisiana parishes?or remember that everyone from French explorers and steamboat captains to modern-day loggers and fishermen have plied its waters and lived along its banks. Even fewer are aware that the bayou remains a place of striking, intense beauty in spots untouched by development and pollution" -- publisher website (June 2007).
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: What is Manchac?; title: Exploring the bayou; title: Community development, then and now; title: Iberville discovers the bayou; title: The bayou has a split personality; title: Colonial development begins with the French; title: An international boundary; title: The British settle the Manchac . . .; title: And the Spanish settle the Manchac; title: What the Louisiana Purchase meant; title: When Andrew Jackson dammed the bayou; title: The bayou in the nineteenth century; title: The biggest little village on the bayou; title: When the woodmen came; title: Prehistory redux; title: A quiet stream and modern development; title: Spirit of place; title: Contemporary struggles...and possibilities; title: Where are the rose-colored glasses?