Central Acadia Parish

Crowley Signal September 20, 1901

This article was written by a correspondent to the Signal.  He writes under the pen name of “Rubin”.

Leaving Robinson’s to the right we go on and on into the heart of one of the most beautiful communities that is to be found on the Louisiana prairies. We pass Hockaday’s farm and Hazelwood’s field that may rightly boast of the finest rice that Louisiana’s turf can produce, and we wander on toward what I believe is called Gum Point and here the lover of nature and nature’s beauties must stand enthralled and gaze upon a scene truly sublime in its natural grandeur. The undulating prairie with evergreen fringed ravine that pursues its deviating course toward the thin green forest that borders the great prairie the points and coves only to check the impetus of the autumn wind as it moans and sighs over a sea of grass. How comes it that the ruthless thread of civilization and man’s unholy lust for the treasures of this world have not long ere this blighted the naturality of this spot. The border land of this region is under cultivation, the finest cotton in the Attakapas land is grown here.

Tis one grand panorama;
The stream is plainly seen,
Like a long thread of silver
In a cloth of lovely green.
The laughter of the waters,
The cooing of the dove,
Is like some painted picture
Some well-told tale of love.
Rubin