480 BAYOU LA BATRE CN 303.09 FMY 43 2A: b. Bayou La Batre. City clerk, seafood cannery; Catholic; h.s. graduate. Church group, historical society. Little travel. Mother: b. St. Martinville, La.; very little education; cannery worker. MGP: St. Martinville; illiterate; physician and hw., ancestry Acadian French from Nova Scotia. Father: b. New Iberia, La.; 4th gr., fisherman, carpenter, farmer, handyman. PGP: New Iberia; farmer and hw.; ancestry Acadian French from Nova Scotia. PGF: no education, literate. PGM: illiterate. Husband: 44; Baptist; h.s.; German and Indian ancestry via Miss. Good-natured informant, tired toward the end. Question-and-answer format. Preserves much of the phonology and grammar found in descendants of Cajuns in La. of her generation. MB/77:LP/ 78 4 hr. 5 min.