Brought To You By Wilbert Carmouche, Travel Avoyelles, and CENTRE de la LOUISIANE
Eggs purchases √, eggs hardboiled √, eggs dyed √! All boxes are checked, let’s head to Avoyelles Parish, your EGG KNOCKING DESTINATION.
In 2011, the State Legislature proclaimed Avoyelles Parish as the “Egg-Knocking Capital of the World” per a bill introduced by former Representative Robert Johnson.
“Pacques is the French translation for Easter,” says Sharon Juneau, ACT Board Commissioner and Pockin on the Bayou teamer.
Easter on the Red River is held at Ben Routh Recreational Park (Effie), Pockin on the Bayou in Downtown Cottonport is Saturday, April 19th, and Pockin at the Historic Avoyelles Courthouse Square (Marksville) is on Easter Sunday Morning (April 20th ).
Join us to hear pacque, pacque, pacque!
