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Eighty-three-year-old Marylean Tezeno is pictured above as she sits on the front porch of her home on a humid Wednesday afternoon in mid-July. She worked for a long time in the lunch room at Sacred Heart for the students and is teaching her eight-year-old great-granddaughter, Ta’kyara, how to cook using the family recipes. (Gazette photo by Nancy Duplechain)

une 4, 1959- Many will mourn the perhaps temporary passing of Governor Earl K. Long from the Louisiana political scene. Things won’t be the same without Uncle Earl assaulting his opponents from the stump when the going gets hot come autumn. Whatever else may be said about him, none can gainsay that his colorful personality enlivened the numerous campaigns in which the old war horse thundered around the state. Perhaps he is, as he has said, the last of the red hot pappas in Louisiana politics. These photos, which capture much of his style and technique, were made when last Uncle Earl stumped from the courthouse steps at Ville Platte.....unsuccessfully, at that!

Pictured from left to right are Evangeline Parish Schools Supervisor Linda LaFleur, Evangeline Parish Superintendent of Schools and Rotarian Darwan Lazard, Evangeline Parish Schools Technology Technician Kyle LaFleur, Evangeline Parish Schools Supervisor Sherral Tezeno, Ville Platte Rotary President Peter Strawitz, and Evangeline Parish Assistant Superintendant of Schools Michael Lombas. (Gazette photos by Tony Marks)