While I’m reviewing Sunday papers, check out this story in the NYT on the Pine Leaf Boys, the Savoy family, and the youth revival in Cajun music. Many of the crabwalk.com readers I’ve met in person have been bored by my extensive sharing of thoughts on these very subjects. (Which are, in sum, that the Pine Leaf Boys are awesome, I wish I were a Savoy, and that the youth movement they represent is roughly 10 times more important to the persistence of Cajun culture than all Louisiana’s French-immersion classes put together.)

And particular props to reporter Geoffrey Himes, since I can’t find a single error of fact in the piece. (Not something I can say often about south Louisiana stories, even those I like.) Also, I’m glad to see the Pine Leaf Boys get some national press after efforts to get them on NPR didn’t pan out.

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Joshua Benton is the director of the Nieman Digital Journalism Project at Harvard University, among other things. Before that, he was a staff writer and columnist for The Dallas Morning News. (More.)