Loreauville

Just up the bayou from Chiasson's office, outside a Conoco gas station, Kerry Romero, 49, of Loreauville, La., took a break from the searing heat Thursday to chat with a fellow truck driver, Gary Nerry, 60, of New Iberia.

Aboard a shallow-water gas rig, regulatory confusion keeps crew waiting 2010

MOLLY AND I attended four P.M. Mass in Loreauville that Saturday, with plans to go to dinner and a movie afterward in Lafayette.

The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010

MOLLY AND I attended four P.M. Mass in Loreauville that Saturday, with plans to go to dinner and a movie afterward in Lafayette.

The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010

Just up the bayou from Chiasson's office, outside a Conoco gas station, Kerry Romero, 49, of Loreauville, La., took a break from the searing heat Thursday to chat with a fellow truck driver, Gary Nerry, 60, of New Iberia.

Aboard a shallow-water gas rig, regulatory confusion keeps crew waiting 2010

MOLLY AND I attended four P.M. Mass in Loreauville that Saturday, with plans to go to dinner and a movie afterward in Lafayette.

The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010

MOLLY AND I attended four P.M. Mass in Loreauville that Saturday, with plans to go to dinner and a movie afterward in Lafayette.

The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010

I saw him again at noon when I was stopped by the traffic light at the four corners up on the Loreauville Road; this time he was pulling his suitcase on a roller skate up a street in a rural black slum by Bayou Teche.

Jolie Blon’s Bounce James Lee Burke 2002

That case you used in your book, the murder of those teenagers up on the Loreauville Road?

Jolie Blon’s Bounce James Lee Burke 2002

Just as it began to rain, I took Bootsie and Alafair for supper at the Patio in Loreauville and did not mention the events of the day.

Jolie Blon’s Bounce James Lee Burke 2002

After school hours we drove up the Teche to the little town of Loreauville.

Jolie Blon’s Bounce James Lee Burke 2002