Jan. 6, the feast of the Epiphany, is the official end of the Christmas season, but that doesn’t mean we have to give up our festivities.
The period between Christmas and New Year’s Eve is traditionally a quiet time in Louisiana politics.
In the middle 1800s the main route from New Orleans to Bayou Teche, Bayou Courtableau and other points in south Louisiana took steamboats up the Mississippi River to Plaquemine in Iberville Parish,
The Abbeville Progress reported the sorry news on Dec.19, 1914. Pope Benedict I had worked for a Christmas truce to at least interrupt the fighting during World War I, but unsuccessfully.
The time has come.
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