Acadiana Profile is a bi-monthly magazine published in the American

United States

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 state of Louisiana

Louisiana

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. It is the longest-running magazine

Magazine

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 in the state's history, and one of the most enduring regional publications in the United States

United States

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. Subtitled "The Magazine of the Cajun

Cajun

Cajuns are an ethnic group mainly living in the U.S. state of Louisiana, consisting of the descendants of Acadian exiles...

 Country", Acadiana Profile is published in Lafayette

Lafayette, Louisiana

Lafayette is a city in and the parish seat of Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, United States, on the Vermilion River. The population was 120,623 at the 2010 census...

 six times annually.

The publication was founded in 1968 by veteran newspaper

Newspaper

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man and businessman Robert Angers

Robert Angers

Robert John Angers, Jr. , was an American journalist, businessman, and conservative politician. A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography describes Angers as "a tireless and unselfish promoter of good government, the Acadiana region, and free enterprise."-Early years, education, military:Angers was born...

 (1919-1988) of Lafayette, and his wife, the former Geraldine Beaulieu (born 1921). It is a general-interest magazine which circulates in the 22-parish section of South Louisiana known as Acadiana

Acadiana

Acadiana, or The Heart of Acadiana, is the official name given to the French Louisiana region that is home to a large Francophone population. Of the 64 parishes that make up Louisiana, 22 named parishes and other parishes of similar cultural environment, make up the intrastate...

.

In 1985 Trent Michael Angers, son of the founders, assumed operation of the magazine.

The magazine includes sections on Cajun cuisine

Cuisine

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, tourism

Tourism

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, history

History

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, culture

Culture

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 and humor. A recent article entitled "Trapped by Hurricane Audrey

Hurricane Audrey

Hurricane Audrey was the first major hurricane of the 1957 Atlantic hurricane season. Audrey was the only storm to reach Category 4 status in June. A powerful hurricane, Audrey caused catastrophic damage across eastern Texas and western Louisiana. It then affected the South Central United States as...

" recalls the 1957 storm that had been one of the worst to hit the Louisiana Gulf

Gulf of Mexico

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 Coast prior to Katrina

Hurricane Katrina

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.

There is also an Acadiana Gazette weekly newspaper in Lafayette. Ron Gomez

Ron Gomez

Ronald James Gomez, Sr., known as Ron Gomez , is a veteran print and broadcast journalist, author , and businessman from Lafayette, Louisiana, who served in the Louisiana House of Representatives from Lafayette Parish, from 1980-1989. From 1990-1992, he was the secretary of natural resources in...

, a former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives

Louisiana State Legislature

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, is its publisher.