of the place is to stop on the
way into town right before you How you doing man I saw you
walking down the street and I I'll I'll just go. check on
Andrew so you can keep going. is all a few years after the
Louisiana purchase Y'all, we much see you soon a little
further up the river. the the old historic town and
with that our steps turn back, the off the earth so y'all know
I know all the secrets. I love when we get chapter five out
and you can find if you want to you can actually catch the fish
with your hand and also if it ferry landing not a bad spot
for fishing. If you want to try into the space that used to be
by us and once in a while, this the town up The Hill so Saint
Francisville did in the early town because eventually the
road goes off the bluff down purchase when New Orleans is
already part of the United in my eyes. Okay and I'm trying
to I'm sorry take care of that. kids just all out there. We're
we are animal lovers and so. States. Sorry, what really just
look so Confused II have pollen So y'all there's no missing
when you've reached the edge of was like oh red beard going to
town. Yeah. it's the Louisiana reach Saint Francisville at a
place called. Oh, my god, the there's old glass bottles that
we found like whenever we were much. we love you guys like
seriously. We love y'all so It's fine. Sorry. I just don't
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manages to stay cool even in word hemming just completely
left my mind. Oh, my God, you for watching any sign offs
signing off. Thank you all so Ay Don't call me a looks like
without pollen in your eye. we got one more installment of
this trip to do getting on up the days when small towns are.
On the way, let us know bring very first thing you'd want to
do in order to get a real sense it. I love it. I got some stuff
to learn here. We're going to Bayou formerly that have been
relocated here and that aren't and you can literally sweep the
crawfish literally into the. I told you I'm a foodie like for
real like and I love living off the best thing, though is when
the floods down here and then collectively down there in the
description as well. So thank and make some good reading when
you can still make out the Francisville comparisons with
your own cool small town all those things so from here.
The road goes down to an old 1800s. What New Orleans has not
done yet recovered prevented the yes, the wisdom family that
still exist down in New Orleans see the means of getting
underground. This is a door take your guides donation
information for all of us people find this hit the bell
in order to get notifications to Natchez tomorrow. So for
now, if you all have thoughts from this Catholic burial
ground and the one down in as not a tomb at all. but a
civil war hideout either way to his kids coming out here and
died showing people through it. by a man to bury his wife, but
he wanted to still visit her or church grounds also, we're
passing through the Catholic about Saint Francisville
questions about Saint This is a tomb that depending
on who you ask either was used happens during the right time
of year, you can actually go area still floods to remind us
what a good idea was to move out there with like AA trash
can or trash bag and a broom, stopped as the day. the war
stopped one other standout tomb keep having this conversation,
however, got the view out over the the water starts to recede.
If you come at the right time, fishing in the Mississippi
River, I mean yeah, it's remembered every year by the
masons. As the day, the war actually not bad. It all
depends on like where you go to into an underground space. you needed a way to get
underground. and while originally this would have been
closed off with bricks, you can text. old names. There's a guy named
Solomon Wisdom right here of attached to their burial sites
anymore. You got these great with hinges and behind it.
there are stairs leading down Cemetery, which has a small
enclosed section of gravestones On our way out of the
Episcopalian cemetery and time the war stopped in this
area and that is reenacted and here Y'all This is one that we
always kind of. Paid attention This plot here is the family
that built the myrtles comfort yourself with dignity
and lots of the people of some here in Saint Francisville,
they actually stopped the fighting for a day and had a
burial ceremony for Mister Hart connection to Saint
Francisville at all, except for man of the house, Daniel
Turnbull and his wife, that's This is the newer version, but
it's not that. and laid him to rest here in a
proper Masonic burial the only This is the family that built
rose down plantation that we that flat plaque right next to
him. No comment. individuals and a few standout
monuments. is just the best combination of
live oak trees and Azalea US right away. Generally to the
happiness of the people who grave of John Hart of
Schenectady. New York is here is leading with the personal
history, but this place is the plantation. Masonic symbol. Here and the
one lower down I won't try to being a member of the
Freemasons, You can see the died during the civil war in
fighting nearby on the describe what they are because
I'll get it wrong, but because Y'all wipe your feet as you
come in. in the Grace Cemetery for kind
of an unusual reason. so he historical note are in here. so
we'll we'll point out a few looked at earlier with the
beautiful gardens, the one that he's association with the
Freemasons and the Freemasons So kind of an interesting story
here Y'all this particular Episcopal Cemetery. We're going
to take you now. Oh, pass through the gate when we
pass through the gate together, places in town. We could tour
and we would I'm not going to So this is Grace Episcopal
Church, which was built on the Y'all We're visiting the grave
site of the Turnbull family. willing submission afterwards.
I'll I'll fight and then all you'll see what I mean. But it
is a cemetery, so you know lived here. So it's AA
Revolution followed by a very at the bed and breakfast and
other places and bring them Mississippi River and he's from
Schenectady. He had no didn't burn down. you see this
big tall obelisk. That's the bushes and this gorgeous church
that is possible and when you bomb. It is just I mean you
kind of don't even think about in the thirteen colonies in
their own independent nation. Myrtles, we made $10 an hour
that's nothing. I know you guys unimportant country because it
was pretty much annexed by the Revolution who decided they
wanted to come and avoid life are going to tip us $30 an hour
for this tour. I appreciate Francisville Town flag. so you
can see the Republic of West, Myrtles Plantation was a
midnight Tour of Grace side of another church that got
bombed during the civil war. Florida and the star in here
indicating its age, says 1810. one of the best places to do
after a ghost tour at the the fact that it's a cemetery
when you step inside because it that, but we had to make some
extra cash so we found other Alright, I'll set it up you you
take it from here. Y'all James building and so y'all are at a
politically very, very, very say harvest, but we would find
tourists at the myrtles staying year, 1810 it was around for. A
month and a half, but Saint all friendliness so y'all. Back
when I was a tour guide at the Because the entire history of
that republic fell into the into town and give them a tour
of town. People loved it and Francisville was its capital
and this was its capital Francisville today, you see
this blue flag with a white important site to the history
of a very very, very minute, this area gets taken
over by locals and it turns. To Jackson Square is the former
city hall and that's a cado is over there. It's called the
Caddo and if you know your star and that is the flag of
the West, Florida Republic and over Saint Francisville today
because it is also the Saint we have a little monument to it
over here. That flag is all force to be reckoned with
amazing rest in peace. Second mm hmm reaping the classic. The
Saint Francisville experiment. of the river, some of whom had
been Tours from the American most important thing about this
building after it's history of the Republic of West Florida,
and when you go around in Saint Google her? Yes, Please Google
Miss Carol Sutton. That is a that's real, but it is it's the
first movie that I think it's Oh, don't Google that North and
South North and South. Yeah. Prime of Miss Jean Brody. Yeah.
Is that a movie I don't know if the old bank vault and how that
works as well as all the you can buy their stuff online.
The thing there, Yes, #not the building and for one movie,
they didn't to down vines down the first movie that Carol
Sutton was in Oh really do sponsored and not related to
them. Ama it. Because this They had their own little micro
revolution here so for a hot can if you go in there, you can
go in the bank vault and see Republic look it up. Alright, I
bet it's cool though, and you Jackson Square French quarter
history, the Caddo there in land on the west side of the
Mississippi and New Orleans, all becomes American for the
first time people on this side Shea is the current. Named for
what was once called the Czech and it really like it kind of
just I think it's an incredible eventually shortly after the
Louisiana purchase when the Louisiana. We've been passing
through between Baton Rouge and to us. And that land changed
hands a number of times wider stretch of land over
through Alabama and Mississippi basically from around where the
Florida Panhandle ends now in a were part of the province of
West Florida that extended here is the kind of narrow
range of what we call West Florida today. They're called
the Florida parishes, but they live here aren't consciously
aware of at this point. Yeah. removed plastic vines is you
can see perhaps with the plaque short lived independent country
for a bit the area of glass from Chea and supplies
from all over that are Shea religious building, which is
the old Temple Sinai. so Saint some of those old yeah 1960s
racism. The civil War films grandmother's personal button
collection and now like imports you cannot even. Tell what a
big deal this place is as you like cute little small town
businesses go y'all, you are One of quite a few I've
forgotten the list of movies. there in Metairie Cemetery, the
one that we give a tour of in as well as. English land for a
while, so it's an appropriate place for there to be a Caddo
and it also was it's own really of illustrates a piece of
history that most people who a Spanish city council. so this
was Spanish land for a while, vines growing. No more. Did you
see the movie? I ain't seen the small and you could it's it's
small but it's not isolated and was good in the next karate
kid, but still. example of how cosmopolitan
this place is even though it is located right behind called
Julius Freehand, and this is a amazing handmade jewelry. Yeah,
the stuff is amazing to see and movie because I won't see the
movie Hillary. I like her. She We're also passing along
grandmother's buttons. so as replacing them with plastic
vines and then ain't no more building used to have some good
vines growing out the ground on royal. Street But if you take a
glimpse of Royal street over the really splendid edifice,
but it's a building with kind Jewish community. At one time.
There's a Jewish cemetery no pass by it's located in a
former bank building, so hence this point, very few Jewish
residents, an old school named Francisville had no longer has,
but did have a pretty sizable contributor to schools and so
you find in this town with at of a nationwide market and a
worldwide pull. The founder of Hill, we made a brief detour
around behind some buildings on have this kind of convenient
long narrow steeple, so the after a Jewish man. It's one of
those unusual things that kind this makes button jewelry that
started from just her towards the edge of the bluff,
you also can spot another on our cemetery tour video and
kind of a patron of a great particularly famous man from.
New Orleans, who is buried longer in active use right by
where I grew up and this place redirecting it here. so it was
established 1844, but you have that building moved up in 1899.
when the community comes up the many different causes, but
among other things that also speaks to the old pre
desegregation high school. It's Bayou. So when they move the
community up the hill saving length of that steeple getting
it all the way up here and then churches in town, The Methodist
Church that I used to attend as underneath so you can picture
logs underneath the whole arrangement they made with this
and with many other buildings was to roll them in pieces up
the hill by putting logs a kid, and it's one of the
survivors from down the hill in what buildings they could was a
priority and in this case. You grid of a town. basically in
james' words. As I remember Bluff was super narrow and
while as you're going through walk through town, the drive
thru town any of that, it's many of them are built at
street level on the front, they Oh, wow. Yeah it's so. It's
continually eroding too, so I'm pond. The way what's not to
love, I'm laughing because of Francisville when the city
moved up the hill from Bayou to limitation that that came with
where Bayou was a rectangular you were there, you'd be the
one to hear him and many a people were around, he would
just talk. But of course, if again, but this is just
plunging down into the low land them from a long time ago,
Saint Francisville had to You never knew if it was AA
hostile person or a hunter in Because there's only enough
people here to occupy 1 street. is extremely historic on their
own and there's a goldfish like that's kind of the
ultimate objective criticism of become a mile long and an inch
wide because this natural. cage in his front yard and once
in a while he'd go flying there's always a little
surprises when we come out here is running off into the river.
It's on either side of town so and I remember many times being
in the woods and you just hear of the Bayou and ultimately
that's the land where the water it's both normal and kind of
exceptional. It has this this. the distance or a or an evil
spirit, or just a talkative was a bad and terrible thing
and that tradition of the hurting people. I don't care
what color you are like it able to stand on the slope
surface and every here and walking along Royal Street.
We're passing by one of the you can never go very far
before you reach this y'all like wandering around in the
woods and of course you know won't let them do it. I'll do
it myself. I'll destroy it accurately and to what Andrew
just said, I think they're pilgrimage was one of the
things that they recently was there you get this wide-open
vista of where things just portrayed just wasn't true. It
was so very inaccurate and no that it's no longer a thing so
heritage or not if it involves splendor and the the Tours of
the houses and interior design shouting at you and it just so
happened that we had this very dress up and guard for the
pilgrimage that they would give have these really tall stilts
on the back that makes them a voice. Speaking in the
distance what it sounded like kind of this very romantic
reenactment of basically. creepy afternoon was spent
unknowingly in Alex's company. of suspending it until a way
can be found to do it more. how there's really only 1
street and it's not only. plunge out from under you. So
great example. you want to teach the history,
but you want to do it house across the street. And
Alex would just be in an open this natural bluff that it's
located on today, there was a wide ranging and talented McCaw
that lived in town right at the town, you don't always have an
awareness of that fact. If you go around the backs of
buildings, you can see while McCaw at times mention the
smallness of town y'all and and Oh, yeah. so a lot of our
enjoyable times as kids was again and. It's it's it's it's
a little bit of sweet because the history of the goldfish in
the pond in the fountain. going to regroup and like
because the history needs to be How to crack a whip over slaves
back. Okay. never go back there It's also because there's only
room for 1 street in Saint people on this plantation and
you're teaching these children. over to some of the the
buildings that really stand out worth doing the loop that we're
doing here. This kind of goes being deep in the woods when
you're from a small town, it's split off to Royal Street
Y'all. So if you ever do the around and if he found, I don't
know if he even cared whether You can get sort of a
supernatural feeling out of it just like yeah born and raised
here too descendant of these taught just make sure you tell
it accurately. we are at that history of slavery, putting it
out on display it may make you actually so our town had an
event called the Audubon the idea too. I mean I'm
reading their statement when visible here in town because
this was the land of the decided to punch up more
recently. So even here you know they decided to II think the
the the presentation was sort Realistically to make it a
better commemoration of history like. Yeah, No, we can't do
this slice and I'm done with staring at me like oh, there's
a token black guy there and I'm medical services Burial
services for former enslaved these things. It's just that
the vision of the past they tree Tour y'all that we we
talked about a moment ago. How this is something that was
going on in our town for a long town. It was not pleasant and I
can tell you a bunch of my they would teach him how to
crack the whip over a slave and black folks and the one time I
did go there like people were uncomfortable, but we'll
recognize like hey slavery and a true commemoration of
history than it was because time until recently where this
ended and I for 1 AM very happy myself, one of my friends. Even
told me that when he would when it comes to recognizing
like people of color. The needs to stop and I have to say
our town is kind of progressive happened here. This is what
we're doing to remind you that him a whip and he would be like
a slave owner in training and They've got an exhibit that
covers the history of Saint different things. artifacts. I
mean as a small town museum Francisville through the lens
of that Bayou community that of what would just be kind of
sightseeing in the area. But various other activities and
they're not like the city some of it look like things
that have been preserved from highest value you do get little
bits of it here and. There and sides of local history on
display to the point, where society building that was
specifically about providing friends who actually went to
this, said pilgrimage and I didn't involve enslaved people,
which is the real one right and it presented this picture of
the nineteenth century that have the authority to say it as
a person of color from this pilgrimage. Yeah, that we go
down for years. That was just over there we have the West
Felicia Historical society. Nineteenth century life for
white people, It was plantation actually have an late
nineteenth century Benevolent I'm I'm going to be the one to
say it because I feel like I and all of these you know,
period gear and all that, but evolving priority. maybe of
putting the less comfortable backgrounds to watch out for
each other's well-being was we've I think we've had a an
evolving awareness or an through the creation of these
benevolent societies, and we in New Orleans post slavery,
one of the really common ways of people to immigrants folks
from a lot of different this is one of our one of the
places that the town has people. So while a lot of that
side of the story is not as it's more unbiased information.
I'd say we've mentioned on that concierge is going to be making
so many bucks off of it. So around town. all these
plantation visits. you could do information about all the
different things you could do for former enslaved people and
and for. Lots of other groups from the area. kind of some
blues history, lots and lots of over time, so this is where the
stop and they've got all the goes, it's. Really rigorous and
they've continually improved it Francisville in the first
place, so the whole reason why gardens were actually
originally landscaped by James burial site that's kind of
surrounded by greenery out there. So I think as plantation
weddings go, my sister got it and they've also got stuff
about like musicians who are used to be down the river. You
can see that mapped out what married there at the
plantation. that is not a internment during World War Two
and the interesting East Asian themselves they go way beyond
that and the small family The house burned down in the
1970s and it was this. This And on this side of the street
y'all, so we've passed by a lot have there today is the ruins
and this incredibly long winding oak alley. Leading up
to them and then the gardens agricultural choices that we've
made here and when you go, plantation anymore. Does that
pass muster it passed muster. Gothic revival house really
remarkable looking but all you visit the site today, it
doesn't look like a plantation. we have. This Japanese American
garden is this strange the Japanese connection on
multiple fronts because not Ima, Walter Emma's father, and
that's what brought this intertwining story of Old
plantations and the Japanese Japanese American family from
New Orleans up here to Saint only does it feature a lot of
that plant life, But the bring in have this really
heavily Asian connection. except for live oak trees, but
the things that we've chosen to Another one of those houses is
Afton Villa, which actually has Eastern Asia and so the native
plant life is. Is something that she made that are still
there well and the really she was producing there. that
provides several decades of but Martha Turnbull there
produced these garden diaries that we are not actually
incredible at highlighting an early nineteenth century
house. It's one that's located as they've preserved her design
and some of her actual plants I forget we have these things
all over the place in New bring these Japanese flowers
like azaleas and hydrangeas the tour guide here so correct
me if I'm wrong about anything. American garden out of hemming
and all of Hemming Valley is garden sites. One of them is
rose down plantation. This is wisteria that we've seen a lot
of all that stuff comes from you can trust the information
they're providing and James was known for like azaleas like
camellias all these different Orleans, but like it just is
kind of massive and above and puzzle and we mentioned this
Japanese garden this Japanese are still there too. It's like
nineteenth century. The choices beautifully landscaped, but
that is a big element of when right in town so easiest one to
read. Shirley and it's a state into the Americas and that is
actually that's a huge piece of French and Spanish connection
that we see with some of beyond here so like landscaping
here is a big piece of the insight into what the operation
of a garden on a plantation that in like differences of
building styles, you see it in of the sequel community. And so
you see this somewhat like garden located here is that
like the things that we're looks like and so there's all
of this knowledge there as well why like it's so appropriate
that we have this Japanese generations as well. Also y'all
and so talking about all these all through this trip, we have
promised Exploring. Esc and of time. When obviously a lot
of the history was developing developed little port town, but
it ends up being moved uphill salient thing is that she was
one of the first people to really like culturally vibrant
place that jazz and a lot of some of these sites a little
further field. so there's a there's many bits and pieces of
things out there on. My family have been passed down to me and
now I can pass down to future with this massive sort of
Versailles style garden that you go looking around town,
both in the town itself, and in historic site, so it's operated
with some historical rigor that Saint Francisville. It's an
early nineteenth century town, working there as a tour guide
and with the two of the people Louisiana further south going
back but primarily this is a after enough floods. So what's
now Saint Francisville is kind the culture of South Louisiana
has found its way into y'all well and so here we're really
back to where it all began and plantation. and then the one
that's degraded. the most with land that just through time
some of the knowledge got lost, there that connects to the
enslaved people who were no couple of plantations that are
specifically known for their resemblance to New Orleans,
except in the sense that it's a we've created the tree Tour. We
get somewhat into that stuff as plantation House. There's old
artifacts. There's there's old really flood prone area. so
there's this whole very an awful lot and and for Y'all
who don't know some of this but there has been an older.
Here so what we call Saint the names of things it doesn't
quite bear as much of the town developed by English
speakers and you really see meets with the river downhill
of where we are and it was a kind of shocking to these two.
Yeah and I think we we learned Francisville is kind of a
successor to this community family lives along, but it was
the this body of water that here. Saint Francisville is one
of these older towns. It's as those vowels become more lax.
so I was able to through time, burned down. Some of them don't
have plaques some of them don't called Bayou Sara and that's an
actual bayou that Robbie's James and Andrew didn't know
about these things because of but thanks to all the people in
my family who I've talked to plantations and that giving us
this really antebellum window reproduced and bam here. I am a
lot of people don't realize the Hollywood plantation was.
We still live there. My family Plantation used to be out there
as well and I'm descended from history in New Orleans through
the Voodoo Tour video that even some of them. We don't
even know about like that's how many there were. There's old
chimneys out there from the river or even near the river. A
lot of them. Many of them got saying hey by the way. I go
deep into this plantation was glass bottles that we found
like whenever we were kids, so with that site and it's just
crazy to imagine that you are tourists is to go out to the
old. Plantations that are no plantation was long since gone.
My family land. A lot of the we longer enslaved after the civil
war and stayed around with the plantation, which is still
standing the Greenwood people from three plantations,
which is the myrtles actually a place where all
three of us Robi and I and that we worked there that the
James and I were there along longer standing and there's all
kinds of historical stuff out that I actually grew up with
keeping it a secret all these including most famously the
myrtles plantation, and that is this, but a lot of the
plantations that were on the We live on a road called Sligo
Road and the Hollywood personal religious life and
nowadays now that we no longer often heard of, but it's just
Robi and a sheep, you know and some water balloons and some
water balloons that my never left. They just stayed
reproduced and stayed my favorite things is like
whenever I was doing Tours less frequently for tourists
certainly almost never for element here that you guys
don't know about. of course, stuff already. Robi is also
taking us on some tours of that generally Antebellum, but then
when you get out a little with Robi like at that point,
you had confided a lot less part of a visit to Saint
Francisville for us. I think my family is the Hollywood
plantation and that land where distance from town, there's
some very famous plantations, working there while knowing the
things that you knew, yeah, but actually me and drag. so you
heard it first here and commemorates the time they're
from and you're looking at the fact that my family is
still here and then I started and just seeing their eyes just
go and what are you doing here? years and then finally becoming
older and enlightened them there. I was telling people
that I was actually a descendant of the people who
were slaves on the plantation This is over 100 years old. The
Cat Island Cypress Tree blows our vows secrecy in the
religion and as you get older, I'm telling you my family.
History Also, there's a voodoo sometimes it's you actually
talking about and sometimes it's me actually talking about
the stories during the time work there. you've told us a
lot more about your connection actually have relatives who are
living in that area and my aunt tell them exactly about my
family connections there, but also really appropriate that it
was you doing it right. One of accessible. just this moment.
Also, I want to tell y'all if than us about your family
history. About your kind of this point, but they've both
managed to survive for. I don't just dwarfs you. The water is
really high in the river as we of the houses in town you'd see
this historic black on that that. We've talked plantations
on this road trip a lot, but James who's a tour guide
himself sometimes all cut our myrtles plantation specials
like the old ones on the as a famously haunted
plantation, the the The Ghost tour guiding teeth and y'all
might have heard of this place of Chloe that haunts that is
the. That people have most same guy who built that hemming
area. It's Guyanese. And some discovery channel and you see
the ghost of Chloe on TV, It's godmother kind of tucked up in
there. If you see any of the there's a ton of them here in
town that are unusually well preservation of these places
actually partly involving the out a lot of historic houses
and this is one glimpse of used to take me out there all
the time. We used to catch loads and loads of catfish. I
got into ruby's expertise preserved. There was a whole
kind of movement towards the this out of the water. It is
majestic and gigantic, and it saw further down the river
right now, so it's not actually fisherman over here. We also
have along this whole stretch you are a big fishing fan Cat
Island is the place to go. I have any idea how long well,
according to some resources, street through town, so this is
one of our famous live oaks of them are coming from that
background already, so they area. I guess yeah. And there's
also which is AA pretty cool skilled white-collar jobs to
the area and this prison that to say the oldest Cypress tree
at least on this side of the today. There's the nature
element too, and we actually the street. so one thing that
the area is famous for is Coliseum to some people when
they visit it. But there is a doesn't play a significant role
in holding them together at they make. But an income is
almost an. Necessary thing to country, imagine like a prison
sponsoring a football game big nature. A little ways
outside of town plus the Clark growing out of a cedar tree.
The ribbon as far as I'm aware, have an exposure to that. So
for another part of the make prison life at all
comfortable, so this is a little bit over the Mississippi
border kind of along the there's the Cat Island Preserve
Cat Island Natural area Natural actually came from an inmate
who actually carved my name on male in population and tourism,
which brings people here from trajectory of our next stop and
Cat Island has this incredible the side of my family. We spend
a lot of time out there like singing for those prisoners and
actually buying a lot of their listed on. Maps as an art
gallery because while the art every year. It's somewhat like
that. But there is this huge things and they keep a very
small portion of the money that to go to the Angola Prison
Rodeo, which is just it's kind for a little poetic nod to
that, we have a an unusual all over the world. Traveling
it's a really unusual nuclear power plant that brings
a lot of very like highly this is a state penitentiary.
so the prisoners there. a lot of rodeo, which a lot of people
in Louisiana grew up with and have a pretty cool piece of of
natural accident right across the book by sister Helen
Prison, where she spent time of all the strangeness of
southern culture tied up in a millennium and a half old
Cypress tree, which is I want whole lot more to it than that.
It's a lot so between this Creek Natural area, which is an
incredible area for hiking a craft selling element where
people make these incredible continent, Maybe in a much
bigger territory than that, and combination of things that
makes this small town really viable in a way that small
towns don't always seem to be natural occurrence right here
along Ferdinand. The main about Angola so Angola prison
Y'all might have heard of and a piece of leather and turn
that leather into a belt and I that in a little while it's a
really famous place and and a notorious prison. Yeah,
And it's also don't forget immediately know you're
somewhere really unusual and in a little bag. One of the
greatest things about that and the majority of people at
that prison are serving life prison a chance to actually
learn new. Crafts and actually a couple times a year. People
travel here in massive numbers rodeo is that it gives a lot of
the people there who are in family lives. Yeah, I grew up
in the woods, but we'll get to whole first impression. This is
just off the highway. There's a look for the Angola Prison
rodeo on a search engine, it's is mostly guards and which
makes the parish two thirds architecture so this incredible
fusion that really speaks to combination of let's say mainly
tourism, a nuclear power plant something that you might know
best from dead Man walking yeah products. Actually my first
belt when I was 7 years old still have it to this day. I
didn't know that. Yeah when you called the Ima Legacy Garden
and this is from a family of. concerts and weddings and stuff
and a whole lot of peacocks. really unusual and complicated
part. It feels like the Roman fact that this is a better and
more than typically well of sometimes you can actually hear
them making verbal noises out Peacocks peacocks over here
peacock chilling right there in really special. Most cities
don't have Japanese gardens being a spiritual counselor. To
prisoners there on death row sell their products to the
public, actually my family on sentences. In addition to all
the historic house tourism here think let's you get a little
bit into why things are as unusual as they are. so one
element of it definitely is the just everywhere you just walk
in. There's peacocks over here. small town, and there's a few
reasons for that we had. unique and we are also by our
town hall right now, which I into town right before you
reach Saint Francisville at a like that's out towards the
side of town where Ruby's to Gates these gates that are
traditional and Japanese place called Hemming that I
think just kind of grabs the into one little tiny little
space. It's like concentrated landscape architecture in the
region. and so you have this Multiple industries here Saint
Francisville lives off of a there in the woods. It's a
wonderful place and on top of about. but his son, Walter Ira,
is now this huge fixture in Orleans and then up here. The
father of this family got hired Japanese American style garden
that includes things like a lot like family memorial from
Hiroshima and. Tori and several of plants from that region of
the world, but also they're also have in it. As of a couple
years ago, a Japanese garden it being this like Greek
revival Sculpture park. You much less small towns like
this. That's why we're so and we're like the guardians of
the carriers of said culture we want to share with Y'all.
We're going to focus this on a to landscape one of the houses
in the area that we'll tell you Japanese internment during
World War II to first New the distinctive of the place.
So like you go there and you Greek revival structures.
There's an amphitheater. culture and so much like so
many traditions just packed Japanese American folks who
relocated here after the just on foot, but there's also
a lot of stuff in West Fleece. wild turkeys that actually live
in the woods nearby and like well, you're not getting
my seat. My favorite thing also a little bit by car and if
you're using a car to get here, life, everybody needs some
space to reflect and decide There's a hedge maze and
there's spaces for events like this big open free to enter
Park full of these kind of the seat you walk to the sea.
The peacock look at you and be it basically there's a sign
right by the entrance that just One of my favorite things is
the peacocks. Because they are to get a real sense of the
place is to stop on the way what they're about and hemming
is here for that. It's just that we discovered some years
ago is that there's a family of sign for it as you're coming
into town and you. Pull in and hearing, you say that I have to
remind myself like how tiny we Siena Parish, The parish where
Saint Francisville is located a parish of not a whole lot
more than that. When I've been music, and at some point
theater scene. that's oh yeah actually is like we are so
small, but there's like so much towns wherever I think it's a
place that people should know and of which it is the parish
seat where you could get around says something along the lines
of it's once in a while in and traditions that's right and
we have some lot of stuff that walk through town because there
is a whole lot. You could see us all being from here. but
this is like one of the coolest Mississippi without antiques. I
think a good like 30% of our I would say like very first
thing you'd want to do in order want to say we got a lot of
people in this place. It's a more than you'd expect. Out of
a town of about 2000 people in lot and art galleries too. We
have backwoods gallery right over across the street. so you
have this like local art and during our stay and we got the
Magnolia Cafe. Lunch or dinner antique stores. You can't have
a cute little town on the books right next to us, which
we have patronized already walk through the historic
District of Town like Saint a cool small town like cute
little inns, good places to get with with live music on the
weekends, and of course there's Francisville, Louisiana and
Y'all like obviously by us for your breakfast or your lunch.
We're at Birdman coffee and house is furnished out of this
building over here. Yeah, I about more than they do. It's a
real standout and you can get a Francisville has some of the
stuff that you'd expect out of Hey Y'all. It's Andrew with
Free Tours by Foot New Orleans glimpse just as we go through
this very beginning part of our gotta stop. I'm clear. Robi with Free Tours by Foot
New Orleans and we got James towns in I'd say the south or.
Like to study interesting small up to Mississippi from New
Orleans Road trip that you can behind the camera. So we're on
part four of our five-part Trip do yourself and we are today in
our hometown. We are
