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MR. RONNIE THERIOT’S HURRICANE AUDREY STORY
MR. RONNIE THERIOT’S HURRICANE AUDREY STORY (The following story was transcribed from a recorded phone conversation between Mr. Ronnie Theriot and Mr. Charles McNeely on February 22nd, 2024) CHARLES MCNEELY Hello everyone, this is Charles McNeely with Dev Doc Theatre and it is an honor and a privilege to be talking to uh… Ron, I…
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Hurricane Audrey
Written account by Joseph Russel Broussard (Dr. Mark Randall Broussard’s Additions in Italics) (June 26th and 27th, 1957) (The Broussard Family) Joseph Russel Broussard, 28 years old Lurlie Mae Broussard, 26 years old Francis Kirk, 4½ years old Mark Randall, 3½ years old Richard Blane, 2½ year old Lisa Reyne, nine months (Visiting us at the time)…
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AUDREY & THE DAIRY
My name is Wayne Hebert. I’m 78 years old and live three miles southeast of Iowa, La. In June of 1957 I was 11 years old when I heard a hurricane was coming. I thought it was going to be a great adventure. I was young and naive. We had a dairy. Power went…
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Mrs. Sue Lavergne’s Hurricane Audrey Story
This is an account of Mrs. Sue Lavergne’s experience with Hurricane Audrey in June of 1957. Mrs. Lavergne shared her story with me during a phone call in late May of 2023. I had just turned 8 years old when Hurricane Audrey hit Cameron Parish in southwest Louisiana. I had been born and raised most of…
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Lagniappe Magazine Article
This article was published by Lagniappe Magazine – May 4, 2023. VOL 41 NO 5. Special Thanks to Brad Goins and Lagniappe Magazine for permission to publish this on our blog! Dev Doc Theatre A New Local Theatre Project Aims To Help People Tell Their Stories By Brad Goins In January, local theatre expert Charles…
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Response to First Submission
This response comes to us from Cat. She shares her own experience with racial identity from 50 years ago. This essay begs us to revisit the age-old question of ‘what is racial identity to my same and/or different race?’ Is it skin color? Is it colloquial language? Is it attitude? Is it heritage or upbringing?…
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First Submission!
We are honored and humbled to post DevDoc Theatre’s first “Tell us your Story, Speak your Truth” submission. It comes to us from a 17-year-old high school junior attending a small high school in rural Louisiana. The student and her 9 classmates were asked “If a play was being done to bring understanding to the…