Jean Lafitte

If your guess is the Calcasieu River Bridge, that would be incorrect. Here is the actual name and other interesting facts about the bridge.

Have you ever wanted to know how Lake Charles got the name?

Jean Lafitte will invade the Lake Charles Civic Center seawall tonight to official begin Contraband Days and make Lake Charles Mayor Randy Roach walk the plank.

The annual Louisiana Pirate Festival means different things to different people, and it's a problem. But that might be changing.

For the 58th year, Pirate Jean Lafitte and his band of Buccaneers have taken over the grounds of the Lake Charles Civic Center until May 10. Gator Country knows this two week festival as Contraband Days. But has it run its course?

I had a visitor this week on the afternoon show and it was Jean LaFitte 2013 Ken Savant. During our conversation about Contraband Days the subject of me firing the cannon this year was mentioned.

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There’s a lot of history in Lake Charles, and some of it is quite interesting. I contacted an old family friend, Nola Mae Ross, to see if she would enlighten me on some of these little-known facts. Our first part in this series is about the Barbe and Sallier home on Shell Beach Drive.