Most weeks, I'm lucky enough to write about one Louisiana adventure or another. This week, though, I'm telling someone else's story.

For the last 15 years, Catherine Schoeffler Comeaux, of Lafayette, has gone to an area along the coast near Cheniere au Tigre to celebrate her birthday. Saturday was her birthday — so she and her husband decided to make their annual pilgrimage.

Getting to that section of the Louisiana coast is quite the process. The area, about 40 miles south of Abbeville, is named for the live oaks growing on the ridge about 3 feet above sea level. ("Cheniere" means "oak grove" in French.)

Indigenous people spent time there, followed by early settlers, pirates, privateers and other renegades. There was even a small hotel, the Sagrera Health Resort, from 1913 until 1957, w

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