A barge that was sunk in a bayou just outside of Morgan City in an effort to protect populated areas from an influx of backwater appears to be working for the most part, said Bill Pecoraro, a member of the Morgan City port commission.
The scene is set, with the sparest of linear means, on the banks of a bayou with a full black moon overhead.
But in the sweltering heat of a bayou summer in 2004, Fitzpatrick, who had not been widely recruited out of Gilbert, Ariz.
Two summers ago, Jake Delhomme and his father spent a stretch of a bayou summer in Breaux Bridge, La., pulling bricks off a small, old house.
Projects have included plugging abandoned oil and gas wells in the waters off Jefferson County and the Houston Parks Board's purchase of a bayou in Harris County.
He bought his first brood fish there, shipping them to Louisiana, where he and Ms. Turner had bought the cottage on a bayou 20 miles northwest of Baton Rouge.
This time there was an industrial feel to the Hakaan collection, strangely shown to the sounds of a bayou after dark (crickets, odd bird calls) and a voodoo back beat.
The fence behind one of the goals is mercifully large, stopping stray balls from ending up in the long grass of a bayou drainage ditch that, rumour has it, contains venomous snakes.
Then Fogerty, who'd never seen — let alone been born on — a bayou, describes a series of lucid, site-specific memories he could not have had: I can remember the Fourth of July Running through the backwoods bare And I can still hear my hound dog barkin' Chasin' down a hoodoo there.
The malaise that is modern life from the sensibility of a bayou catholic.
