If you've been following this weekly Feature, you know the drill by now, so here we go: Louisiana gives us Savage Fork (whose folk pitch more than hay), The Woods (lovely, dark and deep), Rockthrow (opposite of Stones Landing), Slaughter (the murder rate in this place must be extraordinary), Charon (you'll be in for a helluva ride if you board the ferry here), Hooker Hole (a modern den of iniquity), Romero (where the dead find direction in life), and Grim (count on stern countenances in this town). But the most (American) Gothic place name in all of Louisiana has to be...
Swindleville. This sounds like a genuine home for the fraudulent, a community where dishonesty has been deemed the best policy. The kind of place where the locals welcome outsiders with open arms, because the confidence game is always afoot.
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