Ellen Aucoin Grisaffe

Current Hometown: Baton Rouge

Grisaffe was born and raised in Grand Bayou. She left when she married at 19.
I enjoyed walking the lane to my grandmother’s house. There were houses along that lane in front of my mother’s house and that lane separated us from the bayou.
Swimming in Grand Bayou.
The community. It was a very small community but people were either distantly or closely related or lifelong friends.
I still enjoy walking. My mother liked to garden and I still garden.
[I miss] the community. It was a very small community but people were either distantly or closely related or lifelong friends.