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What An Awesome Country We Live In!
Awesome Country
by Barbara Jensen

(Editor’s Note: Barbara and her partner Robert traveled the highways of every state in the lower 48, looking for an ideal
place to settle down. After their extensive journey, they chose Lubbock, Texas. This is the second installment in a delightful
series documenting their travels.)

art of the excitement of
exploring this country
Pis learning the history of
your family and seeing the places
where they made a mark. Finding
cousins in small towns all over
America adds to the feeling of being
connected.

New Orleans, LA is known to most
people for Mardi Gras and the
French Quarter. I’ll admit, it’s an
amazing place; the downtown is
gaudy in its appearance, proud of its
French history (although it has quite
a bit of Spanish history as well),
narrow streets, old brick buildings
with second floor balconies, and
parties until the wee hours of the
morning. It’s a bit too much for me.
Our travel to Louisiana was to visit
Plaquemine, a small town between
New Orleans and Baton Rouge.

Bayou La Rose Kingfisher

When I first became interested in wanted to say, “Hi, cousin!” to every
my genealogy, a historian from passerby. I was donating pictures of
there said that if I walked down the my French and Acadian ancestors
streets in this small town I’d find to the historical museum there,
I was related to nearly everyone I and it turns out the head of that
New Orleans, LA
would see. As we walked there, I museum really is a cousin. While

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