If you haven’t been to the Berwick Walking Trail lately, try it. There are over 50 different species of trees – oak, maple, pecan, China, white and red mulberry, willow, elm and many others. There are crepe myrtle trees from one end to the other planted next to the trail. Black and tan squirrels are …
After fixing the nose, the doctor performed a skin graft on my Aunt Clesa’s face – like you would not believe. The doctor got all the wrinkles out of Aunt Clesa’s face with that skin graft. What he did was graft on her face the skin from the smoothest part of her body that he …
I met a lady on the Berwick Walking Trail a while back and I asked her why she hadn’t been walking on the trail regularly like she use to. She said that she walks the trail in Morgan City because t have a restroom. I said: “Lady our trail here in Berwick is 1 1/8 …
I’m not saying that my wife is a bad cook, but my doctor advised me to eat out more often. **** A baked potato will cook in about half the usual time if you boil it for 5 minutes before you put it in the oven to bake. **** What is the ugliest animal that …
There were five Cajuns from Pierre Part sitting in the back of a pickup truck, traveling down the highway. They came to a bridge that was opened, but they didn’t stop and went right into the river. The driver jumped out and the five Cajuns in the back of the pickup truck drowned because someone …
Did you know that the largest wedding that I ever saw took place in Berwick in the late 1920s? This was the wedding of my oldest sister, Jenny Guzzetta. There was an old Italian lady, who originally came from Italy, and she used to come and visit my mother. All those old Italian people who …
On Sept. 5 my wife and I were invited to attend the 50th wedding anniversary of Gerrie and Huey Breaux, which was held at the Word of Life Fellowship Church in Patterson. This ceremony, given by their children and grandchildren, was so beautiful, so resplendent, and so embellished by the memory of the original vows, …
Kids today are so sentimental! On Mother’s Day, they pull her out of the kitchen and say, “Mom, we don’t want you to do any dishes today – leave them in the sink ’til tomorrow.” I was driving around the other day and I noticed that I was getting low on gas. So I started …
I have to go back to the old high school football games in Berwick to tell you these tales. I remember when Berwick was playing University High School of Baton Rouge in a big playoff game. About a week before that playoff game, University High was playing Amite in Baton Rouge. Typically, Merval Landry, Tarvil …
Somebody asked me the other day how I remembered all the things that I write about. I just suppose that all my experiences in life account for this. I was a fireman for almost 20 years and saw all the big fires as they occurred in Berwick. I also participated in three of the largest …