Monthly Archives: April 2014

Sam Irwin | Thibodaux Rotary Club

April 8, 2014

 Sam Irwin - Thibodaux Rotary Club           Sam Irwin is a freelance journalist and writer who lives in Baton Rouge. He is the former editor of the Louisiana Market Bulletin, a state agricultural journal, and served as the press secretary for the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry under Mike Strain. He is currently the public relations director of the American Sugar Cane League. In addition to writing numerous news articles and features for the Advocate, Country Roads, Louisiana Cookin’, Offbeat and other journals, Irwin’s fiction has been published in a number of online magazines. He invites you to read The Ransom of Red Goat, a comic crime novel of New Orleans, Jefferson Parish and the Barataria. It’s available on e-book.

 

            A product of a mixed marriage (his mother is from South Louisiana, his father’s roots are north of Alexandria, Irwin has traveled the state in search of the story. He is the author of Louisiana Crawfish: A Succulent History of the Cajun Crustacean, a new book released by History Press of Charleston, South Carolina, which makes him the foremost historian of Louisiana crawfish lore.

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