A Family Pilgrimage: Charlene Richard's Tomb Revisited

By Wendy Whelan-Stewart

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Wendy Whelan-Stewart teaches creative writing at McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana. This article is published in the 2013 Louisiana Folklore Miscellany.

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