Where They Wait

by Scott Carson

“So that was the story of Boon Island,” he went on. “The wreck happened in 1710, and the boy became a man, and the man became a soldier, way it always went in this country back in those times. Always fightin’ a war. He got himself into a good one, French and Indian. He moved up north, found himself in a French settlement. My people. Acadians. You know anything about the Acadians?” “They were deported. Taken from Maine and Novia Scotia and New Brunswick and relocated to Louisiana. The Cajuns in Louisiana are descendants of the Acadians in Maine.” “That’s maybe twenty percent of the story, but I’ll grant you still know more than most folks. The British deported them, as you called it. Others would call it genocide. There were more than twelve thousand people rounded up and loaded onto ships.