JEAN LAFITTE, La. – Pirogue racing will return to the town of Jean Lafitte this weekend, the first time in nearly twenty years. Event organizer Tim Kerner Jr. said that residents are excited to have ...
The small Jefferson Parish town of Jean Lafitte is bringing back a sporting event that used to draw thousands of spectators and some of the strongest paddling arms in the state. On Saturday (July 21), ...
Adama and Moussa Sarr had lost track of the exact number of days they had been at sea. The brothers were drifting somewhere off the coast of West Africa, in a traditional Senegalese fishing canoe ...
The title of Senegalese director Moussa Touré's new drama refers to the flat-bottomed motorboat transporting 30 West African immigrants on the Atlantic Ocean to Spain. It's a trip that is meant to ...
Water, speed and the Louisiana bayou may be in the blood of the LeBlanc family in Lafitte. Malcolm LeBlanc held the title in the World Champion Jean Lafitte Pirogue Race for 10 straight years in the ...
As indigenous to the bayou country as Mardi Gras are pirogues (canoes dug out of cypress logs). Louisiana’s first mode of transportation, pirogues are still used by Cajun and Baratarian trappers to ...
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