You know that you are getting old when you bend over and think to yourself, âIs there anything else I need to do while Iâm down here?â Oswald Avery said about life: âWhen you fall, be sure to pick something up while youâre down there.â It would be a pity to fall down and not pick up something worthwhile during the experience.
The testimony of many across the years has been that they have picked up some of the most valuable things in life while they were down. Edmund McIlhenny operated a sugar plantation and a saltworks on Avery Island, Louisiana, before the Civil War. When Union troops invaded the area in 1863, McIlhenny fled. He returned two years later to find his sugar cane fields and saltworks destroyed. The only things left were some Mexican peppers that had re-seeded themselves in the yard. McIlhenny began to experiment with the ground peppers to make a sauce, which would add some taste to his dull diet. In doing so, he invented what we know today
Lance Begnaud II, 27, of Broussard, and Rene Romero Jr., 41, of New Iberia, died from injuries sustained in the Dec. 14 collapse at the mine operated by Cargill Deicing Technologies.
Avery Island is a salt dome surrounded by marsh in lower Iberia Parish, which borders the Gulf of Mexico. It s not an island in the traditional sense. That is, it s not surrounded by a body of open water, Shane Bernard, historian and curator for the McIlhenny Co., wrote on his blog in 2016. In fact, it s located about 3 miles inland from the nearest body of open water. But it is surrounded on all sides by wetlands either grassy salt marsh, wooded cypress swamp, or slow-moving, muddy bayous.
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