Fighting to stay afloat on what looks like a sea of chocolate milk, desperation begins to define a Tuesday morning in Thibodaux. My boat shakes uncontrollably, and I feel like a newborn deer learning ...
THIBODAUX, La. (AP) - Once a staple of Cajun living, the pirogue has evolved into a novelty item, largely replaced by plastic kayaks that can be purchased at outdoors stores and big-box retailers.
Similar to a canoe, the pirogue was first used by Native Americans in the swamps and marshes of Louisiana, before it was refined by French explorers, hunters and settlers. The pirogue was dug out of a ...