
Jewli Ann Lareaux: The Creole Storyteller Who Championed Louisiana’s Wetlands
Imagine a Woman by the Bayou: Stories Whispered in Three Languages, Under the moss-draped oaks of 19th-century Louisiana, a voice carried across the wetlands—a blend of French elegance, Creole rhythm, and English pragmatism. This was Jewli Ann Lareaux, a woman whose stories did more than entertain; they safeguarded a vanishing culture and ignited one of…