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Cheré Dastugue Coen
- 3 days ago
- 3 min
Elvis is in the Building
See the movie and then visit the real thing. For 22 years, Elvis Presley experienced great fame and fortune with his manager, Colonel Tom...
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
- 6 days ago
- 5 min
Southern Writer Spotlight: Nancy J. Cohen
Florida author Nancy J. Cohen writes the Bad Hair Day Mysteries.
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
- Jun 18
- 2 min
'Little Grand Canyon' in Louisiana? Well, kind of.
Longleaf Vista in the Kisatchie Forest of Louisiana offers a gorgeous view and a 1.5-mile trail down to a bayou.
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
- Jun 16
- 3 min
Southern Writer Spotlight: Jane Tesh
Jane Tesh writes several Southern mystery series.
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
- Jun 13
- 4 min
Cheers to National Bourbon Day
June 14 in National Bourbon Day and we're here to celebrate that spirit.
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
- Jun 12
- 2 min
Southerners love to pose with rocks
Lookout Mountain near Chattanooga may take the prize for the photos snapped.
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
- Jun 9
- 2 min
Show Your Stripes on Seersucker Day
National Seersucker Day is June 9 and it's especially celebrated in New Orleans, where the seersucker suit was born.
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
- Jun 7
- 2 min
The Smallest Church in the South?
The Chapel of the Madonna in White Castle, Louisiana, is arguably the smallest church in the South — if not the world!
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
- Jun 1
- 3 min
Southern Writer Spotlight: A.C. Mason/Anne Clayre Mason
A.C. Mason's novels feature Susan Foret, mystery writer, and are set in South Louisiana.
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
- May 26
- 3 min
The Witch Tree of Old Louisville
The Witch Tree of Louisville has a strange history and a following that continues today.
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
- May 18
- 1 min
The Three-legged cat of Natchez
A limping stray cat in Natchez, Mississippi, captured the hearts of City Hall.
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
- May 13
- 3 min
Southern Writer Spotlight: Mike Nemeth
Spotlight on Author Mike Nemeth.
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
- May 5
- 2 min
Authentic Mexico in downtown Atlanta
If you’re searching for true Mexican cuisine and less of the commercialized fare, take a drive down Buford Highway in Atlanta.
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
- May 2
- 2 min
Reliving an Alabama Distillery Raid
The South loves a good reenactment, including a law enforcement raid on a moonshine still.
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
- Apr 26
- 2 min
Best Winery in the U.S. is in Gatlinburg?
Mydatingadviser.com studied more than 700 U.S. wineries and the top three were in Tennessee!
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
- Apr 20
- 1 min
The Odd Bayou Art of Kenny Hill
Bricklayer Kenny Hill settled in the small bayou town of Chauvin in 1988, erecting a tent on a bayou-side lot while he built his home.
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
- Apr 15
- 3 min
The buried leg of John Bell Hood
Alongside the road in the woods of northwest Georgia lies a grave containing only a leg.
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
- Mar 30
- 3 min
The Demise of Jasper 'Jack' Daniel
Jasper Newton Daniel, otherwise known as Jack, created one of the world's finest whiskeys. But an impulsive moment took his life.
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
- Mar 12
- 3 min
New Orleans Events for LGBTQ+ Visitors
New Orleans is a welcoming place, a town where visitors can release their inhibitions and don their natural personalities.
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
- Mar 4
- 2 min
This Weekend is All About Daffodils
Southern gardens offer ways to honor that brilliant harbinger of spring - the daffodil.
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
- Mar 4
- 3 min
Jazz Fest's Baby Steps
Tulane University Special Collections honors the New Orleans Jazz Fest with “Music IS the Scene: Jazz Fest’s First Decade, 1970-1979.”
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
- Mar 2
- 6 min
Writer Spotlight: Jason P. Reed
Jason Reed writes novels about his home in South Louisiana, what he calls "a wonderfully weird, welcoming place."
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
- Feb 25
- 3 min
Kimberly Willis Holt's Louisiana Sky
Kimberly Willis Holt is an award-winning author who incorporates experiences in Louisiana in her youth within her stories.
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
- Feb 23
- 2 min
What’s your 2022 word? Mine is Eco-Tourism
The beauty of the South is in its people, traditions, its vast cultures derived from a myriad of diverse peoples and its road trips.
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
- Feb 22
- 3 min
Get rockin’ at Georgia’s 10th Monadnock Madness
The natural uniqueness of Panola, Arabia and Kennesaw mountains outside Atlanta is why the state offers Monadnock Madness during March.
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
- Jan 31
- 2 min
The Falling of Age
A guest blog post by Karen Ott Mayer, who writes from Moon Hollow Farm, located among towering trees in north Mississippi’s Hill Country.
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
- Jan 24
- 3 min
Ziplining a life experience. Who knew?
Ziplining over Coldwater Creek in Northwest Florida with Adventures Unlimited.
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
- Jan 11
- 2 min
Thousands haunt Charleston's Old City Jail
Bulldog Tours of Charleston offers a creepy look inside one of the South's most haunted places.
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
- Jan 7
- 3 min
Passports to Fun
We hardly need a reason to visit breweries, wineries and cideries, but it doesn’t hurt to have incentives.
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
- Dec 29, 2021
- 3 min
Take 5: Get Your Read On in Mississippi
There are many indie bookstores in the South but the award goes to Mississippi, known for some of the finest American literary figures.
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
- Dec 21, 2021
- 2 min
Southern Winter Irony
The Winter Solstice - how the darkest night brings us hope.
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
- Dec 11, 2021
- 4 min
Chasing Snowbirds
More than 14,000 Sandhill cranes spend their winters at Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge in Decatur, Alabama.
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
- Dec 6, 2021
- 3 min
Holiday Happenings
Southern towns that celebrate the holidays in unique and unusual ways.
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
- Dec 4, 2021
- 2 min
Happy Birthday Bunk Johnson
The Bunk Johnson Jazz, Arts, and Heritage Festival and Shadows-on-the-Teche will celebrate New Iberia’s Bunk Johnson with a surprise party.
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
- Nov 19, 2021
- 3 min
The three graves of Robert Johnson
Legend has it that Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil at the Mississippi Crossroads. Where he's buried is another mystery,
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
- Nov 9, 2021
- 3 min
Operation: Art of Valor
For veterans in St. Petersburg, Florida, art is a healing tool at the Morean Arts Center.
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
- Oct 29, 2021
- 2 min
Fear the Woods in Central Georgia!
There's a creepy side to the family-friendly Yule Forest in Stockbridge, Georgia. It emerges every fall.
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
- Oct 27, 2021
- 2 min
Go Nuts Over the Bushy Tail Art Trail
Squirrels are going nuts about this new arts initiative in Henry County, Georgia. And when you see why, you'll agree.
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
- Oct 25, 2021
- 4 min
What’s haunting Americus, Georgia?
Americus Haunted History Tour with native historian Steve Short offers histories of several sites in town.
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
- Oct 19, 2021
- 3 min
Be Kind to Your Ta-Tas!
Breast cancer is the most common cancer in the country today and one of the most fatal. And it's avoidable!
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
- Oct 15, 2021
- 2 min
Skip Back in Time at South Louisiana Cemeteries
Two South Louisiana towns offer cemetery tours this time of year.
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
- Oct 13, 2021
- 6 min
Geauxst Hunting at LSU
An excerpt from “Haunted Baton Rouge” by Bud Steed, published by The History Press.
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
- Oct 10, 2021
- 6 min
The Haunting of Evelyn Cheesman & Her Magic Violin
Piecing together the life of Evelyn Pearl Cheesman and "Her Magic Violin."
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
- Oct 6, 2021
- 3 min
A Ghostly Show Goes on at the Tampa Theater
Tampa’s haunted heritage includes the Tampa Theater and a ghost named Fink.
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
- Oct 5, 2021
- 2 min
Angels in Natchez, Mississippi
The annual Angels on the Bluff is the long-running candlelit tour of the Natchez City Cemetery.
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
- Sep 18, 2021
- 2 min
A Purr-fectly Fun Fountain
Product review of The Magic Feline Fountain and other cat products from My Lovely Feline.
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
- Sep 16, 2021
- 2 min
Return to Mayberry
Well, Barn, do you wish you could return to those slow-moving summer days fishing at the creek with a bottle of pop and a baloney...
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
- Aug 31, 2021
- 1 min
How to help victims of Hurricane Ida
Here we go again, another active hurricane season. I'm heartbroken watching the news of my hometown of New Orleans, not to mention all...
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
- Aug 26, 2021
- 2 min
Thomas Wolfe's Angel
A marble statue becomes immortal in fiction. William Oliver Wolfe was a stonecutter who created tombstones and monuments from his shop in...
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
- Aug 22, 2021
- 4 min
The Legend of Blue Moon Bayou
This short story was originally published in The Times of Acadiana, Lafayette, Louisiana. It became part of my second book of The Viola...
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