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Bayou Tales
Colonel
Possum is proud to present the books of Mariana Titus!
Mariana
Titus grew up in Franklin, Louisiana. For the past twenty five years she has
photographed her surroundings and recorded colorful stories of the bayou people.
Her five books take the reader on a tour through swamps, bayou bars, ancient
graveyards, oil fields, sugar cane fields and churches. As you read chapters
such as ‘If I Can Catch It, I Can Cook It’ and ‘Love is Better than
Rabbit Spaghetti,’ you will experience the southwestern Louisiana lifestyle,
laugh and cry at the stories, enjoy a fais-do-do, eat Cajun food and
experience music from swamp pop to spirituals.
Mariana’s latest book, ‘Sunday Mornings, Crowning Glories,’ brings you
inside some of the churches around her hometown. You will meet their inspiring
pastors, see the beautifully dressed women of the congregation and listen to
gospel music sung in a church or on a country porch.
I invite you to follow Mariana’s journey and enjoy the engaging bayou tales and
images in her books.
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Colonel Possum
 My
Journey
W hen
I was a child, we lived in a two-storey Victorian in the small town of Garden
City, Louisiana. Once a thriving community, it hosted a sawmill, a general
store, a post office and an appliance store. One day, as we were outside playing
in the swept dirt yard, a woman drove by. She observed my brothers and their
friends shooting marbles, my little sister unwinding a yoyo string and me
walking on stilts. It was a scene from a Eudora Welty photograph. As the dust
cleared from her brakes, she asked if she could take our pictures. She became a
family friend and eventually returned to New York City. Mary was her name and
she gifted me with the confidence to appreciate the beauty of my immediate
surroundings. My father gave me my first camera soon thereafter. It was an
Imperial Six-Twenty. My journey began.
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Mariana
Titus
Books by Mariana Titus (Click Title Links for more information)
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Sunday Mornings,
Crowning Glories
Colonel Possum Favorites...
 Graveyards and Bayou
Bars
Summers
Full of Porch Bull
 Hurricanes, Healings and Dancing Ceilings
 Rain, Cane, Bayou Refrain
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© 2008 Colonel Possum Publishing Company
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