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March 1, 2007 by: Geoffrey Himes

The 2005 Breaux Bridge Crawfish Festival was everything Jazz Fest used to be: small, local and funky. Out-of-towners made up maybe 10 per cent of the crowd, which was dominated by grandparents in their lawn chairs, married couples sharing paper plates of crawfish and teenagers in tight T-shirts glancing over their shoulders at groups of the opposite sex. Between the food booths offering a dozen ways to eat crawfish and beneath the brightly lit Ferris wheel were ...

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