Tradition bearer Elaine Larcade Bourque has lived along the Vermilion River in Milton for the last 60 years. She has demonstrated weaving and spinning at many of Louisiana's festivals as well as around the United States. Bourque learned her skill from master weaver Gladys LeBlanc Clark during the late 1980s and together they were awarded a Folk Arts Apprenticeship Grant by the Louisiana Division of the Arts in 1989. She prefers to work with brown cotton, which has a soft, natural shade of brown and does not need to be dyed, but is more difficult to spin than white cotton because of its short staple. She is documenting Acadian blankets that remain in the families that wove them as part of the Acadian Brown Cotton Project. Bourque will be presented and interviewed by folklife ambassador Dr. Ray Brassieur at Festivals Acadien et Créole.