Some of the original Acadian settlers are represented in portraits of their descendants that will be on display as part of the 16th Acadian Memorial Heritage Festival in St. Martinville this weekend.

LAFAYETTE, La. (WAFB) - “But these are the colors that they mainly dressed in,” says portrait artist, Ceci Neustrom. Neustrom is an artist on a mission. “Mimics the look that the early Acadians would ...

EUNICE – The Acadian Cultural Center, which is a part of the Jean Lafitte National Historic Park and Preserve Louisiana system, is helping to preserve the heritage of those who settled Acadiana’s ...

LOREAUVILLE — When the British expelled them from Nova Scotia, the first Acadian settlers made their new home somewhere in present-day Iberia Parish, near the village of Loreauville. The specific ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - A small memorial and museum in St. Martinville has become something of a pilgrimage for people who feel they have a family connection to Louisiana’s earliest Acadian settlers ...

It’s been 250 years since Acadians first arrived in a region that would one day bear their name: Acadiana. In honor of this, the Grand Réveil Acadien (The Acadian Awakening), is now underway through ...

The heritage of the local Cajun people and the blessing of the French Acadians that settled in this area hundreds of years ago will be celebrated later this month. Bishop Sam Jacobs will head an ...

Middle and High School students in St. Martinville researched the lives of the Acadian children who arrived in Louisiana after being forced from their farms in Nova Scotia by the English in 1755. Of ...

Note: This story originally ran as part of the 250th anniversary of the Acadians arrival in Louisiana. There’s a real good chance Le Grand Derangement was the first episode of state-sanctioned ethnic ...

In the 1750s, French settlers in eastern Canada, called Acadians, were kicked off their land and forced to make their way south, eventually settling in Louisiana. Lucky for us, because those Acadians ...

ST. MARTINVILLE, La. (WVUE) - A small memorial and museum in St. Martinville has become something of a pilgrimage for people who feel they have a family connection to Louisiana’s earliest Acadian ...