Miss Rose's Bar

Al LaVergne made the metal sculpture in 1980 and it is also known as Happy Man. It shows a woman tending bar while a man sits on a stool talking with her. Roadside America describes it as depicting an important institution of the Acadian Black community. After the 1984 World's Fair in New Orleans it changed hands several times and at one point was left in a field to rust. It had been restored for public display by 2004, and it now stands on the grass under trees at the welcome center.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Vermilionville — 2.1 mi
  A living-history village of about 23 acres on Bayou Vermilion in Lafayette, opened in 1990 to interpret the Native peoples, Acadians, Creoles and people of African descent of the Attakapas region.
• Cypress Island Preserve at Lake Martin — 7.2 mi
  Nearly 10,000 acres of bottomland hardwood and cypress-tupelo swamp at the south end of Lake Martin, owned by The Nature Conservancy, with a boardwalk and a rookery of egrets, spoonbills and alligators.
• Longfellow-Evangeline State Historic Site — 14 mi
  A bayou-side state site on former Attakapas hunting ground, with a raised Creole cottage of about 1815, a reproduction 1800 farmstead and its slave quarters, and the story behind Longfellow's Evangeline.
• St. Martin de Tours Catholic Church — 14 mi
  The Mother Church of the Acadians, founded in 1765 on St. Martin Square in St. Martinville, with a late 1870s Lourdes grotto and, a block away, the Evangeline Oak on Bayou Teche.

More markers nearby

• The Triangle (Ti-fer) — steps away
• Holy Rosary Institute — 1.0 mi
• Gordon Square — 1.3 mi
• Pavy Studio — 1.4 mi