{{Short description|US magazine}} {{Use American English|date=June 2022}} {{Use mdy dates|date=September 2019}} {{Infobox magazine | title = Acadiana Profile | logo = Acadiana Profile.png | image_file = Acadiana Profile, April - May 2021.jpg | image_caption = Cover for the April/May 2021 issue | category = Regional magazine | frequency = Bimonthly | founder = Robert Angers and Geraldine Angers | founded = 1968 | company = Renaissance Publishing | country = United States | based = Lafayette, Louisiana | language = English, French | website = {{URL|www.acadianaprofile.com}} | issn = 0001-4397 }}
'''''Acadiana Profile''''' is a bi-monthly magazine published in the American state of Louisiana. It is the longest-running magazine in the state's history, and one of the most enduring regional publications in the United States. Subtitled "The Magazine of the Cajun Country", ''Acadiana Profile'' is published in Lafayette six times annually.
The publication was founded in 1968 by veteran newspaperman and businessman Robert Angers<ref>{{cite book|author1=Nelwyn Hebert|author2=Warren A. Perrin|title=Iberia Parish|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W1mpBjT1C5QC&pg=PA74|accessdate=November 14, 2015|date=June 2012|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|isbn=978-0-7385-9175-9|page=74}}</ref> (1919-1988) of Lafayette, and his wife, the former Geraldine Beaulieu (born 1921). It is a general-interest magazine which circulates in the 22-parish section of South Louisiana known as Acadiana.<ref name=apm>{{cite web|url=http://www.acadianhouse.com/acadianaprofilemagazine/ |title=''Acadiana Profile'' |publisher=acadianhouse.com |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011235349/http://www.acadianhouse.com/acadianaprofilemagazine/ |archivedate=October 11, 2008 }}</ref>
In 1985 Trent Michael Angers, son of the founders, assumed operation of the magazine.<ref>"Business Editor Bob Angers dies", ''Lafayette Daily Advertiser'', October 14, 1988, p. 1</ref> Renaissance Publishing acquired the magazine in 2011.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.myneworleans.com/My-New-Orleans/February-2011/Renaissance-Publishing-Purchases-Acadiana-Based-Magazine/ |title=Renaissance Publishing Purchases Acadiana-Based Magazine |access-date=February 25, 2014 |archive-date=January 26, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160126225756/http://www.myneworleans.com/My-New-Orleans/February-2011/Renaissance-Publishing-Purchases-Acadiana-Based-Magazine/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
The magazine includes sections on Cajun cuisine, tourism, history, culture and humor. A recent article entitled "Trapped by Hurricane Audrey" recalls the 1957 storm that had been one of the worst to hit the Louisiana Gulf Coast prior to Katrina.<ref name=apm/>
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==External links== *{{official website|http://www.acadianaprofile.com}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Acadiana Profile}} Category:Bimonthly magazines published in the United States Category:English-language magazines Category:French-language magazines Category:General interest digests Category:Lifestyle magazines published in the United States Category:Local interest magazines published in the United States Category:Magazines established in 1968 Category:Magazines published in Louisiana Category:Mass media in Lafayette, Louisiana Category:French-language mass media in the United States Category:Non-English-language magazines published in the United States
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