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Want a taste of mid-Louisiana? Click HERE and then click video on the family sectionThis site was updated May 23, 2008

Photo here is Johnston/Johniken Matriarch -
Effie Blackwell
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"There is no place like home!""Home is the place where, When you have to go there, They have to take you in." - from Robert Frost's The Death of the Hired Man

The Flower Image courtesy of the Santalady
Our special thanks to Juelie for the use of the beautiful magnolia, the state flower of Mississippi. You might want to give her a visit by clicking the Santalady.

When our ancestors came from Mississippi to Louisiana in the 1890s they felt right at home.
Not only did the landscape look a lot like the place they left, they also continued to enjoy the magnolia trees. Many years after their arrival the magnolia became the Louisiana state flower.
As far as I know the village of Pelican got its name from the bird by that name.

This is family at work!
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L.to R.: Richard Johnston,
David Evans, Robert Rankin,
Curtis Jernigan, and Gerald Johnson

Brown Pelican

Photo source: Animal Diversity Web

A wonderful bird is the Pelican
Whose beak can hold more than his bellican
He can hold in his beak enough food for a week
But I don't know how in the ----ican! -- Merritt Dixon

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