What?!? No Jean Baptiste Gamache statue?
Bet you didn’t know I was married to “local royalty” of a sort.
Tomorrow (Saturday, June 20, 2009) there is a big Gamache family gathering in St. Louis that will include a stop at the monumental tomb of the first St. Louis Gamache, Jean Baptiste Gamache, followed by festivities at a local restaurant.
Jean Baptiste Gamache was a contemporary of Pierre Laclede in the late 1700s and with him was one of the French founders of St. Louis. I don’t know why there isn’t a “Gamache Gas Company,” or a “Gamache’s Landing” on the St. Louis Riverfront, or a “Gamache Station Road,” or even a “Gamache Cab Company.” Where IS the love?!?
Oh, well.
Certainly I feel a sense of pride being a Gamache, with its ties to the history of this city, my hometown. There was a Waylon Jennings song in the 1960s whose words I can adapt to reflect that pride. Jennings wrote it to tell Vietnam War protesters that he didn’t take lightly their condemnation of the USA for its activities at the time. I get my feathers ruffled when I hear people malign my hometown, and my adaptation of the song might go like this, “When you’re runnin’ down my (city), hoss, you’re walkin’ on the fightin’ side of me … .” I’ve lived other places, but I always roll back this way again.
The story about the assemblée du famille Gamache a St. Louis a demain and their ancestral role in founding the City of St. Louis appeared today in the St. Louis > Suburban Journals <.
Merci a votre attention et au revoir, mes amis!
Sincèrement,
Donna J Gamache
St. Louis, Missouri
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