Article archive / June 1, 2012
Originally published: . Volume 3, No. 10. Source pages: 7.
Legislators passed House Bill 746 by Rep. Charles “Bubba” Chaney of Rayville, making the pirogue, the small, flat- bottomed boat that is propelled with paddles or a pole, the official state boat.
Rep. Chaney filed the bill after friends built a pirogue and took a two-week tour of Louisiana rivers and water- ways, Chaney to the Times- Picayune.
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