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JEREMY BROUSSARD, producer of a documentary on the three remaining grave houses in Mermentau Cove’s Istre Cemetery, told Tourist Commission members the film will be included in a Canadian museum display of burial customs beginning in October.

Acadia’s unique cemetery ‘houses’ to be featured in Canadian museum

The uniqueness of three remaining burial houses preserved in the Istre Cemetery in Mementau Cove will be featured in a New Brunswick Canadian university’s museum beginning in October.
Jeremy Broussard, who with his brother, Zach, produced a documentary entitled “Little Houses: A Small Film about Death,” invited members of the Acadia Parish Tourist Commission Thursday, April 9, to promote a Acadiana tour group to attend the exhibition to be staged at the Université de Moncton’s Musee de Acadiane.
Broussard also pointed out Moncton is a “twin city” to Lafayette.
The Istre Cemetery has now been placed on the National Historic Register. In addition to erecting a permanent historic sign, Broussard noted the cemetery has now been identified on Goggle Map.
Broussard said he wants to create awareness about the cemetery’s uniqueness. “No one knows why, but there are a lot of little legends,” remarked Broussard about the custom of building the small houses over the graves.
In her report Executive Director Gwen Hanks noted hotel-model enterprise tax revenues are down over the same period last year.
She noted parish attractions featured in literature handed out at the Louisiana Sportsman’s Show created 759 requests for information and that the commission’s tourist website experienced 7,500 hits in March.

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