Great shot. It was written in our family history that in the 1800's, probably 1880 or so, my grandfather, Felix Perilloux, who owned a cooperage, would put all the scraps of wood and wood shavings on the levee at Christmas time for his workers to have a fire. This was in Lions, very near the San Francisco Plantation house. All this stuff they make up now about the history of the bonfires drive me crazy. Probably to light the way to midnight Mass, too.
