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		<title>St. Joseph&#8217;s Cord</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:30:07 +0000</pubDate>
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[Originally posted here]
AG, as you may well know from reading her blog, is from New Orleans. Her family hails from a small city some ways away called Opelousas. You can read more about her memories of going to this place here, as well as on other parts of her fine blog. 
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		<title>Chauvin Sculpture Garden</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
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From a useful website:
Little is known about the reclusive Kenny Hill, a bricklayer by trade, born around 1950. In 1988, he settled on some property on the bayou in Chauvin (pronounced show-van), Louisiana—population 3,400. Hill pitched a tent as his home and, over time, built a small rustic home that demonstrated an interesting use of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arturovasquez.wordpress.com&blog=2894911&post=4636&subd=arturovasquez&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Saint Marron</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 01:55:53 +0000</pubDate>
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St. Marron, a folk saint unique to New Orleans, was the patron of runaway slaves; the name derives from the French word marron, meaning a runaway. He was usually represented by an image of St. Anthony, apparently this saint not only found lost people, he aided those who &#8220;got lost&#8221; on purpose.
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		<title>Botanica moments</title>
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1. I went to a rather scary botanica in east Oakland right before I left California. Saw a lot of interesting stuff, and they had dozens of statues of Santa Muerte.  If that had been the first botanica I had ever visited, I would have been really creeped out by it. 
In the back, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arturovasquez.wordpress.com&blog=2894911&post=3703&subd=arturovasquez&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Miracles</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 01:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
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above: from the parish church in St. Martinville, Louisiana
Disbelieve nothing amazing concerning the gods or divine dogmas. 
-the third Pythagorean symbol
Two blogs that I read, from two entirely different people, have had posts on miracles recently. The first comes from that rather snarky Lutheran blogger who says what all Protestants think but don&#8217;t feel they [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arturovasquez.wordpress.com&blog=2894911&post=3567&subd=arturovasquez&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Death of Amédé Ardoin</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arturo Vasquez</dc:creator>
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		<title>Origins of Zydeco</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 01:19:05 +0000</pubDate>
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A clip from a documentary
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		<title>Bottle Spells</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 01:04:23 +0000</pubDate>
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Lafayette, Louisiana, September 3rd, 2004 :
Among the soda bottles and lost basketballs floating down the Vermilion River, there are things much odder and mysterious. 
The Vermilion River could be called a one-way hoodoo highway. 
Over the years, more than four dozen ordinary, little brown plastic prescription bottles have been found in the murky water &#8212; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arturovasquez.wordpress.com&blog=2894911&post=3440&subd=arturovasquez&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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