Cajuns on Gulf Worry They May Need to Move Again
Date: 2010-07-19T06:59:53.997
Author: AAA Staff
Editor note: CHAUVIN, La. — Stanley Sevin knew it was time to have the difficult conversation with his parents when he saw the oil sheen shimmering under his family’s dock on the bayou. He had been putting it off ever since the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded in April.
“Sell the house and go start fresh somewhere else,” Mr. Sevin, 24, pleaded with his family, shrimpers of Cajun ancestry. “The business is dead and this life is over.”
For the Cajuns of South Louisiana — exiled in the 1700s from French
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