Same Place, Different Time

ID: 856 ~ Source: Alma Brunson Reed, Images of America: Eunice (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2009), 12.

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A photograph of the Liberty Theater taken in 1988. The satellite dish of KEUN is visible on the right behind the theater.

This file appears in: KEUN: Eunice, the Prairie Cajun Capital: A Place for Cajun Music

KEUN: Eunice, the Prairie Cajun Capital: A Place for Cajun Music

By Lindsey DeLaughter

The founding of radio station KEUN in Eunice occurred as Cajun and zydeco music were gaining prominence in the mid to late twentieth century. However, both genres struggled to get airtime anywhere…