Add these upcoming events to your calendar. Click on this link to find more in…
Carola HartleySeptember 21, 2022
This is a photograph from c. 1908-09 of the Christman Building on West Landry Street…
Carola HartleySeptember 14, 2022
As with the rest of the world, people in this area of Louisiana were also…
Carola HartleySeptember 9, 2022
The story of how the lives of Father Lafleur, Father Sylvester and Father Beekman intertwined…
Carola HartleySeptember 8, 2022
Soirée Royale is next Monday in Opelousas. For more information contact the St. Landry Chamber…
Carola HartleySeptember 7, 2022
The Opelousas Civic League and Abdalla’s Department Show held a unique style show at the…
Carola HartleySeptember 7, 2022
If you like real treasures, antiques, maybe vintage, or even just small collectibles, this is…
Carola HartleySeptember 6, 2022
Did you know the United States did not have a Labor Day holiday until the…
Carola HartleySeptember 5, 2022
Where was Jim Bowie Born? Did Jim Bowie Live in Opelousas? The Jim Bowie Oak
Carola HartleySeptember 4, 2022
Bruce Muller, and wife Florence from Otsego, Michigan, near Kalamazoo, are trying to identify this…
Carola HartleyAugust 31, 2022
CAROLA LILLIE HARTLEYPublisher and Contributing Writer This photograph from a publication around the turn of…
Carola HartleyAugust 29, 2022
Enola Prudhomme, the daughter of Eli Prudhomme and Hazel Reed Prudhomme, was born in St.…
Carola HartleyAugust 28, 2022
Arrest Report for August 26, 2022 - St Landry Parish Sheriff's Department.
Carola HartleyAugust 27, 2022
Angela Gregory: A Legacy Chiseled in Stone - Louisiana Public Broadcast (LPB) - Monday, August…
Carola HartleyAugust 21, 2022
Emile and Anna Roger with their two sons Frank and George, at their home in…
Carola HartleyAugust 20, 2022
From the two centuries of newspapers in Opelousas during this week of August, over the…
Carola HartleyAugust 20, 2022
Following the US Civil War, the merchants and businessmen of Opelousas started to discuss the…
Carola HartleyAugust 18, 2022
The annual Memorial Mass to commemorate the 78th Anniversary of the death of Servant of…
Carola HartleyAugust 16, 2022
See what was happening in our area of Louisiana 150, 100, and 50 years ago.
Carola HartleyAugust 11, 2022
Photo from the Past - Roger Family from Arnaudville, LA (Photograph from John Coffey Collection.)
Carola HartleyAugust 10, 2022
Photograph: George Davy discusses his attack by a pit bull several months ago. Parish Council…
Carola HartleyAugust 10, 2022
We know Opelousas had an opera house as early as the 1830s, with the first…
Carola HartleyAugust 9, 2022
Here's what was happening in our area of Louisiana this week, over the years.
Carola HartleyAugust 5, 2022
It was a magical time in Opelousas. A time when there were opera houses in…
Carola HartleyAugust 3, 2022
Junion CEO Pop Up Shops at Java Square was a great success on Friday. Every…
Carola HartleyJuly 31, 2022
On August 6, 2022, Elbert Guillory’s America and the Guillory Family Toy Drive will join…
Carola HartleyJuly 28, 2022
Opelousas Downtown Market will again be opened for business this Saturday, July 30, 2022 from…
Carola HartleyJuly 26, 2022
The story of the Opelousas Opera Houses continues: By the end of the 1880s and…
Carola HartleyJuly 25, 2022
Photographs of the Depot in Washington courtesy of Tommy Lafleur and were used in the…
Carola HartleyJuly 21, 2022
From its humble beginning in the 1700s, Opelousas provided different forms of entertainment for its…
Carola HartleyJuly 21, 2022
For any business in the Opelousas Main Street District that is wanting to apply for…
Carola HartleyJuly 19, 2022
The life of Louisiana Sculptor Angela Gregory to be presented on LPB. Gregory did the…
Carola HartleyJuly 16, 2022
Louisiana Yambilee Parade heads south down Court Street in this c. late 1940s photograph. (Carola…
Carola HartleyJuly 14, 2022
Today's Photo from the Past shows an early Yambilee Parade as it rolled down Court…
Carola HartleyJuly 10, 2022
Ever wonder as you ride through Opelousas what it must have been like one hundred…
Carola HartleyJuly 8, 2022
It was only the second year of the new 20th century and Opelousas was flourishing…
Carola HartleyJuly 4, 2022
