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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=200 BGCOLOR="#003333" TEXT="#F7F7FF" background="042d4c00dduajq.png"> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="95" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 46 WIDTH="91"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="46" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="91" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="080b4e20.jpg" border=0 width="180" height="226" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>Father Adrien Rouquette</B></div> <div> <A HREF="industrial_slidell.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Industrial Slidell"><IMG SRC="0814b140.gif" border=0 width="75" height="20" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></A><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="industrial_slidell.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Industrial Slidell"><B> for</B></A></FONT></div> <div> <A HREF="industrial_slidell.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Industrial Slidell"><B>Industrial Slidell History</B></A></div> </td> <td valign="top" width="100%" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#003300" FACE="Arial" ><B>Slidell, Louisiana -- Camellia City</B></FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#006633" FACE="Arial" > </FONT> <B> </B><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B> |    </B></FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#006600" FACE="Arial" ><B> </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Slidell, Louisiana Camellia City"><B>home</B></A></FONT></div> <div> <A HREF="slidell_101.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="History Sketch of Slidell">History Sketch of Slidell</A>   |   <A HREF="antebellum_mansion_on_the_bayou___tranquility_is_tucked_away_from_slidell_s_urba.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Antebellum Mansion on the Bayou">Antebellum Mansion on the Bayou</A>   |   <A HREF="industrial_slidell.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Industrial Slidell">Industrial Slidell</A>   |   <A HREF="time_table.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Time Table">Time Table</A>   |   <B>Avatarus</B>   |   <A HREF="amazon_books.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Amazon Books">Amazon Books</A></div> <div> <IMG SRC="07df0030.png" border=0 width="496" height="3" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <I><B>Avatarus</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>From: Avatarus </B></FONT><B><</B><A HREF="mailto:avatarus@hotpop.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:avatarus@hotpop.com"><B>avatarus@hotpop.com</B></A><B>></B></div> <div> <B>To: Dan Ellis</B></div> <div> <B>Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004</B></div> <div> <B>Subject: Re: </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" ><B>Slidell "Camellia City"</B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>Dan,</B></div> <div> <B> </B></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#006600" FACE="Bookman Old Style" ><B>     Prior to discovering your book, I wrote</B></FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#00FF00" FACE="Bookman Old Style" ><B> </B></FONT><I><B>"Bonfouca and the Early History of Lake Pontchartrain"</B></I><I>,</I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Bookman Old Style" > </FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#006600" FACE="Bookman Old Style" ><B>which I wrote primarily for the natives here in Bonfouca, who were in danger of losing their heritage as the Creole influence diminishes.</B></FONT></div> <div> <B>     Like I said before, I didn't discover your Slidell book until after I wrote mine, but I pretty much went through the same process as you did, with some exceptions. I do all the printing  and binding myself, because my book is smaller, and its has plenty of color pictures. It costs me about $ .75 a copy because I refill the ink cartridges myself and it takes a little over a half an hour to print on a $22 HP printer.</B></div> <div> <B>     Likewise I tried the Pirogue Races and Crab Festival with moderate success. Though most of the 60-70 books I've sold since it came out in June have been by word of mouth, I sell it at the G.O.S.H. museum, M.C. Embree's and recently at the Home School Cottage.  It costs $12, and I split it 25/75 with retailers. and the Christmas special is 5 for $50.</B></div> <div> <B>     Not surprising, your book doesn't have an IBSN or barcode.  I looked into getting a printer's IBSN so I could sell my books at B Dalton's, etc., and produce CD's and software as well. But I noticed that you don't have a copyright notice, and that made me wonder why.</B></div> <div> <B>     Writing it has been very rewarding on many levels.  Everywhere I go in the neighborhood I look at things in the light of history.  It might be opening up a new world for me. I have so much info from my research that it will take years to fully take advantage of it.</B></div> <div> <B>     Presently I am working on version II, with more info on other places in St Tammany and a lesson planner so I can sell it to the school system here. I probably will print that version the same as you, ring binder and in B&W.</B></div> <div> <B>     But my current passion is a screen play called "The Bards of  Bonfouca", about the lives of Adrien and Dominique Rouquette and their uncle, Anatole Cousin. As a child I visited my friend, Robert Baldwin Jr.'s grandfather's home, at Anatole Cousin's plantation and roamed the woods where the old brickyard was.</B></div> <div> <B>     Recently Lee Miltenberger, Anatole's great-great grandson had me over and showed me Pere Rouquette's vestment, the robes he used when he gave mass at Bonfouca.  Something clicked and I realized that I should tell the story of these great men, whose lives are virtually unknown by their descendants.  Originally the idea was to write a play for schools to perform, but that got sidetracked when I realized the true scope of trying to describe their life and times would be better served in a movie.  I am going to submit it to a contest, where it will get critical scrutiny and who knows, if I do well I might win a few bucks or maybe more.  As always there will be the satisfaction of adding to my legacy.</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B>Carl Fedrowisch</B></I></div> <div> <B> </B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="amazon_books.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Amazon Books"><B>Next Page</B></A></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>