Local author donates books to Evangeline Parish Library

Local author, Boisy Pitre, has been an avid and passionate advocate for the Color Computer for nearly 30 years. In 1992, he joined Microware Systems Corporation, the makers of OS-9, as a software engineer and has worked in the industry ever since. Today, he remains a part of the CoCo community, leading various open source initiatives and working with his partner, Mark Marlette, at Cloud-9 to provide hardware and software for the Color Computer hobbyist. Pitre is a graduate of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, where he obtained his Master and Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with a minor in Mathematics. Pitre and his wife, Toni, reside in the quiet countryside of Prairie Ronde. He recently donated two of his newest books to the library: “CoCo: The Colorful History of Tandy’s Underdog Computer” and “Swift for Beginners: Develop and Design.” They are now available for library patrons to check out! In the first photo, he is shown with Evangeline Parish Library Outreach Coordinator Suzy Lemoine, left.