Download or read book Mint Julep (Day One): As Told to Gracie Buckhalter (Special Christmas Edition) written by Nita Clarke and published by America Star Books. This book was released on 2015-09-03 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fasten your seatbelts and hop aboard a roller coaster ride through the shenanigans of the fictitious Menard-LaPierre family as they celebrate Day One of their three-day family reunion in the shade of a big Magnolia tree, and the traditional "telling of the family stories." You'll meet the old storytellers as they share their family tales of Dolice and Jean Pierre LaPierre; their beloved Mama Mozelle; the notorious Mistress of the LaPierre Plantation, Madam Frou-Frous; the powerful Juju of the Voodoo Priestess, MamaDel; the charm of Savannah, Miss B. B. Carson Declouette, and the introduction of a tall, redheaded Canadian that changed their lives forever, named Menard. Mint Julep will take the reader from plantation life on the Bayous of Louisiana to life in the great City of New Orleans; from poverty to society, rags to riches, shacks to Bordellos and fine clothes and the joys of Zydeco music, all with laughter and just plain old good fun! (Find out the secret of that pesky Mint!) Relax and enjoy your narrator, Alexandra Menard-LaPierre, as she describes Day One of the Menard-LaPierre family reunion to Miss Gracie Buckhalter, (fine writer that she is!) in long, drawn-out sentences that represent the very essence of true Southern finesse while supporting the very idea that everyone who reads Mint Julep is a true Southerner, if not just for the moment! NITA CLARKE is a native of the Bayous of Louisiana and currently resides in Lexington, Ky. Nita attended the University of Southwestern Louisiana in Lafayette where she studied English/Journalism. She has worked for KSLO/KOGM Radio in Opelousas and KJAE/KLLA Radio in Leesville, La. as a Talk Radio Announcer as well as for K-22 Television in Opelousas as Program Director. Nita is a Vietnam-era Veteran where she served the U.S. Navy as a Military Journalist and in Public Affairs. Her favorite pastimes are writing, writing and more writing.