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Main Street - Broussard, Louisiana №6
Shady, Sybil and the hundred-year schoolhouse
This is Saint Cecilia school in Broussard, fronting Main Street and adjacent to the Church of the Sacred Heart and cemetery. It was founded in the 1909 by a congregation of nuns called "Sisters of Divine Providence". As luck would have it, exactly 100 years ago.
My mother attended this school back in the late fifties, later moving on to Mount Carmel High School in Lafayette in the early sixties. Her mother, nicknamed "Shady" I believe attended in the 1920's - Shady had passed about 5 years before any us were born.
I don't remember how it goes, but like many in the Southern U.S., mom ended up with a nickname: "Sybil"
Shady and Sybil, a few decades apart...and me walking by, 80 years out...
Main Street - Broussard, Louisiana №6
Shady, Sybil and the hundred-year schoolhouse
This is Saint Cecilia school in Broussard, fronting Main Street and adjacent to the Church of the Sacred Heart and cemetery. It was founded in the 1909 by a congregation of nuns called "Sisters of Divine Providence". As luck would have it, exactly 100 years ago.
My mother attended this school back in the late fifties, later moving on to Mount Carmel High School in Lafayette in the early sixties. Her mother, nicknamed "Shady" I believe attended in the 1920's - Shady had passed about 5 years before any us were born.
I don't remember how it goes, but like many in the Southern U.S., mom ended up with a nickname: "Sybil"
Shady and Sybil, a few decades apart...and me walking by, 80 years out...