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 ...

Pirogues were once a regular means of transportation and part of a way of life. The long, slender boats would skim the surface of the water as people paddled through the bayous and marshes to hunt or ...