Whispers of the Bayou
“ Back at the house, once I made sure Sissy was off and rolling with the cleaning, I slipped away to my tiny downstairs bedroom, closed the door, and pulled out the book Livvy had brought me. According to her, the reason I hadn’t been able to find Colline d’Or on any map was because it no longer existed. All she’d had to do, she said, was go through some Cajun history books that featured older maps, and there she had finally found it: Once upon a time, Colline d’Or had been a village in t...he Piziquid Valley region of Nova Scotia.
Livvy had marked the pertinent pages with Post-it Notes, so I flipped to them right away and devoured the information hungrily. The book had several paragraphs about the town, saying that Colline d’Or had been one of the last Acadian villages to have its citizens rounded up by British soldiers in the Grand Derangement. Unlike most other villages in Nova Scotia, however, not one of the citizens of Colline d’Or had attempted to escape into Quebec or other surrounding areas.MoreLess
Livvy had marked the pertinent pages with Post-it Notes, so I flipped to them right away and devoured the information hungrily. The book had several paragraphs about the town, saying that Colline d’Or had been one of the last Acadian villages to have its citizens rounded up by British soldiers in the Grand Derangement. Unlike most other villages in Nova Scotia, however, not one of the citizens of Colline d’Or had attempted to escape into Quebec or other surrounding areas.MoreLess
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