Along The Way: Riding with Steve and his Buddy

St Martinsville did not disappoint. Today I chose to ride with Steve Eason in his 1957 Corvette. We followed right behind Eric Marsh.

The morning was spent at St Martin De Tours Catholic Church. When we walked in and all the statues were covered in purple cloth. We sat for a while in pews that were built in the late 1700. They were from the original church building. This church evolved to the cross shape in the 1800s through the very early 1900s.

After our tour of the church we were on our own to tour the church grounds and the Teche boardwalk. We made it over to the Acadian museum were we listened to a mural of the people tell their story. Each person was told in the voice of their descendant. The African American museum was next door. The museum had many items the displayed the culture of the people. Lunch was at St Johns restaurant. It was in an old train Depot building. The food was excellent. We were lucky to be the first to be seated and served. Due to the mess up in the instruction book many people had to wait an hour and a half to eat.

The afternoon includes a guided tour of Shadows on the Teche. The Weeks family had a big story to tell about the history of the sugar cane industry, slavery, Civil and War and more. The grandson was the last member of the family to own the home before donating it to the Historic Preservation Society.

We all walked to the Bayou Teche Art Museum that housed the Blue dog artist, George Rodriguez.

After our tour before heading back to the hotel we headed over to Baskin and Robin's for ice cream.