petanque

Well, that is about the extent of French I know. But in a Franco-American community like Augusta, you do pick up a few things along the way. For example, I know a little bit about Mill Park Petanque. You say it “pay-tonk”. According to Petanque America, the game was created about a hundred years ago in the south of France and is a cross between the Italian bowling game Boccee and horseshoes. Read

Well, that is about the extent of French I know. But in a Franco-American community like Augusta, you do pick up a few things along the way. For example, I know a little bit about Mill Park Petanque. You say it “pay-tonk”. According to Petanque America, the game was created about a hundred years ago in the south of France and is a cross between the Italian bowling game Boccee and horseshoes. Read