EP 38. Dale Bordelon, Bayou Country Traditions
Louisiana's fabled waterfowling history stretches back centuries to the first French inhabitants, that thrived among its Spanish moss adorned swamplands like fish in water.\xa0 Their tools of the trade were by necessity hand-crafted from locally abundant materials as a practical way of feeding families, but became in that sense a true art form.\xa0 For Dale Bordelon, collecting natural materials from the Avoyelles Parish landscape near home then making his traditional cane calls, cypress dugouts and paddles, moss pirogue seats, and cypress root decoys completely by hand and without power tools is more about "connections to the old ways" than anything else.\xa0 What were Dale's earliest influences and how did he become interested in practicing this lost art? What's the distinction between creole, cajun, and coonass? How is cane selected and made into duck calls? And why is it important to him that everything be made completely by hand?\xa0 Dale is a gifted storyteller. He answers these questions and much more in the first of this 2-part series.\xa0
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