Nell Aucoin Naquin
Current Hometown: New Orleans Naquin lived in Grand Bayou until she graduated from Nicholls and got married. Favorite Thing to Do There was a lady everyone called Aunt Lou, but she wasn’t everybody’s aunt. She would always manage to find stuff for the kids to do. My favorite thing to do in Grand Bayou was […]
Jessica Rousseau Baye
Current Hometown: Labadieville Baye lived in Grand Bayou her whole life until she got married at 23. Favorite Thing to Do Playing with the other kids in the summer, whether we were playing baseball in the front yard or swimming in the bayou. Favorite Memory Learning how to swim in the bayou. Once we learned […]
Heidi Rousseau Mattingly
Current Hometown: Napoleonville Favorite Thing to Do I loved to sing and swing all day long. Favorite Memory Every morning my grandmother would watch me, and my sisters get on the bus and would be waiting on us when we got off the bus. Most Missed I miss the memories of Grand Bayou — riding […]
Angela Rousseau Diez
Current Hometown: Kenner While not from Grand Bayou, Diez grew up going to visit her grandmother and extended family every other weekend. Favorite Thing to Do One of my favorite things to do was going with my grandmother to check on the turtle eggs I collected and hoped to sell. Favorite Memory On the trips […]
The Lost Bayou: Grand Bayou
by Lauryn Madere & Shaun Breaux, Managing Editor & Features Editor A community is a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common. It’s where people grow up, where they learn who they are. Parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, cousins, neighbors and even classmates are some of the […]