"Outside, Looking Out" - Yes, this really is a reflection and shadow of a nearby tree"
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!["SSP - Self Pasted Portrait" - Me, with my new SmugMug camera strap, taking a shot on Avery Island, Louisiana. And in the background a 200 year old tree photographed at the Longfellow-Evangeline State Park in Louisiana.<br />
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An Evangeline Oak was made famous in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, "Evangeline,"<br />
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From - A Maine Historical Society Website:<br />
"Evangeline's most lasting impact has been on Acadians themselves, both in Nova Scotia and in Louisiana. According to Yale historian John Mack Farragher, author of A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from their American Homeland, "[T]he poem struck a spark igniting a cultural and political renaissance among the small Acadian middle class that began to emerge in the second half of the nineteenth century." The poem became a creation myth, and its heroine's hometown of Grand Pré remains a pilgrimage site. In 2004, to commemorate the four hundredth anniversary of the arrival of the French in North America, a two-week reunion was held there. Thousands of Acadians from around the world gathered to celebrate their shared history. <br />
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Evangeline was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's first epic poem. Hiawatha (1855), "Miles Standish" (1858), and Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863-1873) followed, cementing Longfellow's reputation as the preeminent mythmaker of his country's young history."](https://photos.smugmug.com/Travelnewsmug/Travel-USA/Louisiana/Cajun-Country-Photoshoot/i-QxZ7RXF/0/1042338d/Ti/DSCN0386compcolor%20copy-Ti.jpg)
