GHEENS, Louisiana - History along Bayou Lafourche

Gheens is our next stop and please consider becoming a supporter at Patreon.com/LouisianaDread!
Host: Kyle Crosby
Camera/Editor: Michael Malley
SOURCES:
Books:
Longest Street : a History of Lafourche Parish and Grandisle
by Tanya B Ditto
www.ebay.com/p...
Glimpses of Black Life along Bayou Lafourche: Brief Stories of How Black People Lived, Worked, and Succeeded During Challenging Times
by Curtis J. Johnson
www.amazon.com...
The Lafourche Country: The People And The Land
by Philip Uzee
www.amazon.com...
Plantation Homes of the Lafourche Country
by Paul F. Stahls Jr.
www.thriftbook...
Sites:
gheensbonmange...
www.louisianaf...
prezi.com/lgef...
www.hmdb.org/m...

[@emmettsampey5046]

My family was from gheen/raceland. My great granfather was a trapper/alligator hunter. His name is Noah sampey. His wifes name was Ailene Breaux. Love your channel

[@LouisianaDread]

Thanks for sharing! I’m happy you enjoy the content.

[@MindlessFocus]

This is where my family came from for a good few generations. Possibly since it’s founding.

[@LouisianaDread]

TONS of history. More than most people realize for sure.

[@tamilynngsu01]

Same. Four generations for my family. It stopped with me - A Raceland girl 😊

[@glennrobichaux7490]

Thanks for doing this great history on my home town and anyone reading this from Lousiana, come on out the Gheens Bon Mange Festival the first full weekend of June and enjoy some great local cajun food and music all inside the Air Conditioned building.

[@LouisianaDread]

It’s always a good time at Bon Mange!

[@lisadparker]

Hurricane Betsy also demolished St. Anthonys. Flattened it completely. Sitting in the midst of the rubble was "the statue ", unharmed but a little scuffed. Our immediate neighbor, who lived between us and the church, rescued the statue. My mother cleaned her up and Our Lady resided in La-La's yard in a protected spot until the church was rebuilt. For her efforts, my mother was allowed to have one of the pews fromnthe church, that she refurbished. It sat outside my house for many years, with a pecan cracker mounted to it. One of my tasks was to crack the bushels and bags of pecans that we kids gathered from out property so that my mother and I could then make miniature pecan pies to distribute to friends, family, and business associates at Christmas time. Of course, the fathers at Saint Anthony were kept well supplied in these pecan pies too! I often wondered why they didn't use them as communion wafers on Sunday - irreverent Presbyterian kid that I was!

[@LouisianaDread]

I would really enjoy a side of pecans with my communion, but maybe that’s blasphemy. Sorry lol

[@BigChant88]

❤

[@dahliahebert4034]

❤️ this lafourche series! What other small communities are you doing next? Kraemer, la has a book abt the community written by Martin Cortez.

[@LouisianaDread]

I’ll have to pick that one up because I’ll be making my way there after I’m done with Thibodaux.

[@LouisianaDread]

Thank you for the info! Looking forward to reading that book.

[@dahliahebert4034]

If you can’t find a copy let me know! So many pictures and stories!

[@TandyLynn]

Have u covered Kraemer or Bayou Boeuf yet

[@michaelparker4457]

Fascinating. Thank you for keeping history alive

[@LouisianaDread]

Glad you enjoyed it! More coming soon.

[@spoonmansacamano5768]

Loved the accent and history, not so much the members only jacket lol. Been in Louisiana over 45yrs and love it. Just subscribed so I can get some more history. Thanks for sharing

[@LouisianaDread]

I’m happy you enjoyed but the jacket is here to stay 😂

[@deagonfrost7786]

awesome!!

[@LouisianaDread]

Yes indeed!

[@kimlalajo]

Thank you, Kyle. Interesting as always. I bet they have a lot of fun at The Chase Mardi Gras celebration. 😃

[@LouisianaDread]

You’re definitely right about that! The Chase is a very entertaining event!

[@lisadparker]

I grew up in Vacherie. My grandparents bought a tract of land from the Uncle Peter Plantation. The land that St. Anthony sits on was donated by my grandfather (a staunch Presbyterian!) to the Holy Savior diocese (I guess that is what it was called). As a child we ran through the woods and swamps to escape our would-be Mardi Gras capturers. I remember visiting Miss Gheens when she was in residence - my sister and I would be invited there when my grandmother visited her when Miss Gheens had her two grandaughters with her. I have so very many memories of an idyllic childhood, one that it makes me sad that I cannot revist today. Our home was Lowood Farm. It was right after the big curve in Hwy 654 that we called Dead Man's curve. No one was killed when I grew up there, but we sure spent a lot of times pulling people out of the cane fields and ditches!

[@LouisianaDread]

That’s a fantastic and grim nickname for the road.

[@FrankGraffagnino]

sugar cane seems to have driven so much of the history of louisiana - from layouts of towns, to economies, to politics (and slavery) and so many other things. It still seems to do so today.

[@LouisianaDread]

They called it King Sugar for a reason. It completely drove the economic engine of Louisiana until oil, but it’s still a MASSIVE industry here.

[@thestingerjosh]

Is the other community that practices the run Choupic?

[@LouisianaDread]

Yes along with places near Lafayette. But those are the only 2 by the great Bayou Lafourche

[@procambarusclarkii]

I had to back up the video to make sure I had actually heard "taffy business".

[@LouisianaDread]

Hahaha I was taken aback also when I was researching.

[@noncched6839]

Arlen "Benny" Cenac is now the owner of Gheens Plantation.

[@LouisianaDread]

Yes

[@ginatheriot1523]

Would see a video of gheens parade and run after

[@LouisianaDread]

It’s a great place to be!

[@ginatheriot1523]

@@LouisianaDread I lived in gheens in 2001 and masked man ran thru my trailer to scare my kids It was a blast

[@LouisianaDread]

@@ginatheriot1523 Haha hopefully it was apart of the chase and not some random guy

[@JohnZeroQkb]

Who is the other town in SELA to practice “the chase”????

[@LouisianaDread]

Kraemer does something similar and there’s a couple towns near Lafayette.

[@chadgaliano330]

I used to be scared of the Gheens parade because of the stuff I'd hear kids at school say about it. Lockport Elementary!!!

[@LouisianaDread]

😂

[@TrailerTrashThorne]

dude running from the mardi gras was so much fun as a kid!

[@shawnrichmond8020]

Leather britches Smith did not shoot the chicken he rang its neck and threw it on the porch and said cook it

[@LouisianaDread]

This is Gheens, Leather Britches is in Merryville.

[@cathylandry7297]

Love your History Video’s.

[@LouisianaDread]

Thank you very much Cathy!

[@papazotch007]

Do St Charles Community.

[@LouisianaDread]

That one is definitely on the list!

[@texascajun4023]

Totally love your history? Bless ya bae😊

[@LouisianaDread]

Bless you as well!