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I relied on historians Jim Delahoussaye and C. Ray Brassieur for details about traditional boatbuilding and fish buying. Bayou Chene descendants and historians Bob Carline and Stella Carline Tanoos shared their anecdotes, newspaper clippings, maps, and lifetimes of research. Errors in facts such as dates, water depths, rake of bow, or the selling price of Spanish moss in 1907 belong to me, not the historians.

My husband, Preston, tiptoed the narrow, blurry line of being supportive but honest.