Louisiana Swine Festival and Swine Trivia Vocabulary

Vocabulary flashcards generated from lecture notes detailing Cajun culture, Basile history, Louisiana Swine Festival facts, and swine biology.

Cochon de lait

The roasting of a suckling pig.

Boucherie

The butchering of a pig when making sausage, cracklins, and other swine products.

Fair

A traveling show featuring games, rides, and farms showing off their prized livestock.

Festival

An event held to celebrate the harvest or a religious occasion.

Nathan Abshire Museum

A museum dedicated to preserving Cajun and Creole music and honoring Nathan Abshire's contributions to Basile.

Nathan Abshire

An American Cajun accordion player who regularly worked in local music clubs and became caretaker of the town landfill.

Mark denette

The Mayor of Basile.

Pig

Casual term usually referring to a younger animal under about 120 lbs or a domesticated farm animal.

Swine

The scientific or formal term for the species as a whole, including any pig, hog, or boar.

Southwest Louisiana Swine Association

An organization founded in 1963 for the express purpose of raising and selling feeder pigs in the Basile area.

Pig Barn

The commonly known name for the Basile Town Park Recreation Building, where quarterly feeder pig sales began in May 1964.

Sow

A female or mother pig.

Piglets

Baby pigs.

Litter

A group of piglets born to a sow at one time.

Swine Gestation Period

A period lasting exactly 112 days.

Sounders

Groups consisting of female wild pigs and their young.

Hernando DeSoto

Spanish explorer who introduced domestic swine stock to the United States in the 1500s.

Evangeline Industrial Home

A former Methodist-run school for girls in Basile founded in 1922.

Bearcat

The mascot of Basile High School.

Pig Heart Valves

Porcine cardiac tissue used by surgeons over 35,000 times in life-saving human heart surgeries.

Fetal Pig Plasma

The liquid part of blood from unborn pigs, used in vaccine production.

Melissa Bergeron Clavier

President of the Louisiana Swine Festival Executive Officers.

Elizabeth West

The Evangeline Parish Tourism Director who works closely with the Louisiana Swine Festival Board.