Gerry Lane rose from the Oklahoma Dust Bowl to build a Baton Rouge empire

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  Gerry Lane’s earliest moneymaking endeavor involved dragging pipe by mule to a ditch on family land, arranging the pipe like culverts and covering them with dirt to create a makeshift bridge so people who lived nearby had easier access to the river for fishing. His father had told him the project was a waste

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