Ville Platte Rotary: Fontenot shares history of Swamp Pop

By News Staff on Monday, March 27, 2023
  • SWAMP POP HISTORY SHARED - Sharon Fontenot, curator of the Swamp Pop Museum in Ville Platte, (center) was the guest speaker for the March 21, meeting of the Ville Platte Rotary Club. She is shown with Rotary President Larry Lachney (left) and Rotarian Bob Manuel (right). (Gazette photo by Heather Bogard)
    SWAMP POP HISTORY SHARED - Sharon Fontenot, curator of the Swamp Pop Museum in Ville Platte, (center) was the guest speaker for the March 21, meeting of the Ville Platte Rotary Club. She is shown with Rotary President Larry Lachney (left) and Rotarian Bob Manuel (right). (Gazette photo by Heather Bogard)
By: HEATHER BOGARD Associate Editor Rotarian Bob Manuel welcomed Sharon Fontenot with the Swamp Pop Museum as the guest speaker for the March 21, meeting of the The Ville Platte Rotary Club. Fontenot gave an update on the success of the recent Swamp Pop Reunion held in February. She said Manuel, along with former mayors Phil Lemoine and Bill Jeanmard and current mayor Ryan Leday Williams, were…

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