Saturday, November 20, 2004
Country Livin' RV Park, Libuse, LA - Nov 18-20
This small RV park is behind a gas station, conveniently located about 4 miles from our cousins Joe & Marilyn Black in Pineville. We enjoy visiting with them, sharing meals and catching up on family news. While we were here, we took a day trip to historic St Francisville, LA, which has many restored homes & businesses. St Francisville is the second-oldest incorporated town in LA and began as a burial ground. 
We visited Locust Grove State Historic Site (SHS), a small cemetery that is all that remains of Locust Grove Plantation. We also met some new-found friends (Jane & Trish from the Stonewall BOF) at Audubon SHS which contains Oakley House, where James Audubon lived for a short time and completed or began 32 of his famous bird paintings.
One interesting thing we learned was that Audubon only painted the birds; his apprentice (at this time James Mason) painted all the background vegetation. Audubon remained at Oakley House only 4 months, due to a misunderstanding with the owners regarding financial arrangements for his tutoring of their daughter. He continued to live & paint in the region, called "The Felicianas".
We are happy to report that our cousin, Marilyn, is still the best pie maker we know!!# posted by Doug and Willie @ 11:56 PM 
