35) Pedro Careen, on the other hand, while dismissing the priestesses as a band of worthless women, goes on to deplore their tyrannical hold upon the village by various means and plots compelling many to repair to them upon every occasion.
View Sponsor Details | View By Category | Add Your Business Here. Cypress Lake is a 2-acre (0.8 ha) swamp-like lake in the heart of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette campus that started as a buffalo wallow.
But Cypress Gardens' two signature elements -- water ski shows and Southern Belles -- developed out of necessity. In 1940, to distract visitors near the entrance from looking at a huge, dead vine killed in a cold snap, Mrs. Pope instructed a female worker to don an Antebellum dress and flirt with visitors.