A Traveler Comes By is set largely in mid-1960’s South Louisiana. Then as now, that geographic term is preferred by most natives to designate their incomparable homeland of marsh, swamp, bayous, and prairies stretching along the Gulf coast and inland from the margins of the Mississippi delta to the Sabine River on the Texas border. Acadiana and Acadia were and are common but less used monikers, allusions to the Cajuns’ lost homeland in the French Canada of the 1700’s. Rare reference is made to the antique Creole appellation, La Louisianne, a Louisiana French name first applied to the region by Acadian immigrants in the time of their diaspora. Though widespread in the South Louisiana of the 1960’s, Louisiana French is now an endangered tongue, on life support as a primary language in a handful of enclaves.

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