| |
| | Br'er Rabbit- Laura Plantation |
 | | Throughout his life, Fortier was known for his passion for his native Creole culture and his special interest in recording forklore that he, as a child, had been exposed to on his family plantation on the River Road. |
 | | During all these years, the Senegalese slaves, whether in Louisiana or on the East Coast, were handing down the same tales of the rabbit and hyena to their descendants. |
 | | Senghor was, for years, President of Senegal, and the stories he recorded 50 years ago about Leuk, the clever rabbit, and Bouki, the stupid hyena, are the same, almost word for word, that Fortier collected in the 1870s. |
| www.lauraplantation.com /fest.htm (461 words) |
|