In summer the fields around Franklin in Saint Mary’s Parish, are waist high rows of frond-covered stalks that a northerner may mistake as sloppy corn.

Any Southern, worth their salt, knows the fields are sugarcane, an industry that brought great riches to the region.Today Saint Mary’s Parish is the “Sugar Bowl” of Louisiana, this

sweetheart of a parish is the most thriving sugarcane farming region in Louisiana, a state that produces 20% of the sugar in the United States.

Sweet Evangeline… Louisiana my home, sweet home
by Anne Dale