Wetlands Acadian Cultural Center

The bayou corridor has a different shape from the prairie or the city — long, narrow, built along water, held together by trapping and fishing and the kind of isolation that makes music necessary. This center focuses on that version of the Acadian story, one of three in the Jean Lafitte National Historical Park network that together interpret bayou, prairie, and urban experiences as three distinct ways of enduring. It fronts Bayou Lafourche in Thibodaux. The other two centers are in Lafayette and Eunice. Admission is free. On weekends there's live music, which makes sense — the bayou communities didn't just trap and fish, they played, and what you hear now is what carried through.