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| St. Peter's Cemetery, New Iberia, Louisiana |
St. Peter's Cemetery is across the street, sort of, from the Iberia Parish Sheriff's Office.
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| St. Peter's Cemetery, New Iberia, Louisiana |
Fictional Iberia Parish sheriff's deputy, Dave Robicheaux, could look out his fictional office window at the cemetery from the imaginary, but real, office. (Later, when the real-life detectives moved from this building to a new sheriff's building behind the library, fictional Dave moved with them.)
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| St. Peter's Cemetery, New Iberia, Louisiana |
It was a viciously hot day when I visited the cemetery toward the end of July.
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| St. Peter's Cemetery, New Iberia, Louisiana |
Here's what Dave said:
After lunch I drove to the Iberia Parish Sheriff's Department and went upstairs to my office .... From my second-story office window I could look out on a canopy of palm and live oak trees that cover a working-class neighborhood, and behind the cathedral I could see a cemetery of whitewashed brick crypts where Confederate dead remind us that Shiloh is not a historical abstraction. (Tin Roof Blowdown, 2007)
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| St. Peter's Cemetery, New Iberia, Louisiana |
I saw this marker (below) and wondered, ah, a relative perhaps? My people include some Courtois. The Hebert name is ubuiquitous here; the Courtois name more rare.
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| St. Peter's Cemetery, New Iberia, Louisiana |
The light was intense the day I visited.
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| St. Peter's Cemetery, New Iberia, Louisiana |
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| St. Peter's Cemetery, New Iberia, Louisiana |
Adjacent to the cemetery was some sort of machinery yard. Unlovely. As was the barbed wire fence separating the cemetery and the yard.
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| St. Peter's Cemetery, New Iberia, Louisiana |
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