In the summers of the early 1970s, Morris Ardoin and his siblings helped run their family\'s roadside motel in a hot, buggy, bayou town in Cajun Louisiana.
When they were not doing their chores--handling a colorful cast of customers, scrubbing motel-room toilets, plucking chicken bones and used condoms from under the beds--they played canasta, an old ladies\' game that provided them with a refuge from.
The stifling, sticky heat inspired them to find creative ways to stay cool and out of trouble.
In the summers of the early 1970s, Morris Ardoin and his siblings helped run their family\'s roadside motel in a hot, buggy, bayou town in Cajun Louisiana