The Acadian Reminiscences is a
word painting of the life of the Acadians in the Teche Country in the long ago.

The plain, simple frugal life of these people, their devotion to principle,
their unbound faith in the goodness of God, their love for each other during
all their misfortunes and perilous wanderings, appeal to the heart.
The simple pathos of the grandmother's story comes to us with such
consummate art, that the eye unwittingly grows moist, as the reader follows the
journeyings of this little band, self-exiled and noble in their poverty, from