Many, many years ago, there lived a pecan orchard owner named Pierre in Pointe Coupee Parish. The pecan orchard owner had one daughter, Rosemary, whom he loved very much. One day Rosemary met Jocke, the son of a simple pecan picker that worked for Pierre. Rosemary and Jocke would meet every day beneath the oldest and largest pecan tree in the orchard. They fell in love, and carved a heart shape into the old pecan tree with their names in it, "Rosemary loves Jocke forever." One day Pierre saw the heart on the tree. Pierre knew he could never let his daughter marry such a commoner as a pecan picker's son. He secretly made a pact with another pecan orchard owner in Orleans Parish to hire Jocke's dad and the family was hurried off before sunrise one morning without Rosemary's knowledge. Rosemary could be seen on any given day crying with her arms around the old pecan tree. One day, Rosemary disappeared, never to be seen again. Since that day, no more pecans were harvested beneath the old pecan tree. From that day forth, only cracked pecan shells were found under the tree where the lovers names were carved. Pointe Coupee Parish has since recorded a slow, but steady increase in population growth. THE END. 

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