dnsmith

My Memories
by David N. Smith

I was born November 22, 1935 in Opelousas, Louisiana. My father was descended from French and German families who migrated to Louisiana in the nineteenth century. My mother's family was English, both sides of whom came from England in the seventeenth century. So even though I was brought up in the Acadiana part of Louisiana, I was not fortunate enough to be "cajun". Many of my friends as a child spoke or at least ...