ST. MARTINVILLE, La. (WAFB) - As you drive along Highway 96, near the Cajun community of St. Martinville, the seemingly endless sugarcane fields are suddenly interrupted by a much older crop. This gravel road is lined on both sides with towering oak and pine trees that have shaded this alley for nearly two centuries. The road is still in use today by farmers hauling in their cane harvest, but it once led to a grand plantation home of Charles Durand, a wealthy sugar planter who wanted an impressive entrance for his mansion. When Durand created this oak and pine alley, it stretched for nearly three miles from his grand house all the way to Bayou Teche. Today, this shaded roadway is still nearly a mile long. And it was here beneath these same limbs that one of Louisiana’s most unusual wedding

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