Cajun Country

The Cajun country of Louisiana has a distinctive history and consists of various distinctive cultural and landscape elements:

vegetation & topography politics music

ethnicity and language foods religion

agriculture company towns Mardi Gras

house types

Small towns in this region also have their specific characteristics:

Franklin St. Martinville

The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire granted me a sabbatical for the Spring Semester of 2003 to conduct library and field research on the Cajun cultural landscape, which resulted in the detailed web pages presented here.

Based on field work by Ingolf Vogeler in March 2003; created on 11 September 2003.