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Cheré Dastugue Coen
- 1 day ago
- 4 min
Big View from Big Walker Lookout
Big Walker Lookout, and nearby Wytheville, Virginia, offer the perfect nature-town combination getaway.
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
- 6 days ago
- 3 min
Southern Writer Spotlight: Patricia Bradley
Mississippi author Patricia Bradley takes readers on a trip down the Natchez Trace.
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
- Aug 2
- 1 min
Berry College: 14 acres to every student
Berry College in Georgia sits on the world's largest campus.
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
- Jul 29
- 4 min
Southern Writer Spotlight: Lisa Black
Lisa's "Red Flags," the beginning of a new mystery series, debuts today.
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
- Jul 26
- 2 min
You Can Win and Eat Your Cake, Too
The Morean Arts Center of St. Petersburg is looking for the finest cupcake and winners take home a unique piece of art.
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
- Jul 24
- 4 min
Southern Writer Spotlight: Lynn Cahoon
Tennessee author Lynn Cahoon writes several mystery series set in New Orleans.
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
- Jul 22
- 5 min
Southern Writer Spotlight: Heather Weidner
Heather Weidner writes mysteries set in her home state of Virginia.
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
- Jul 20
- 3 min
Get Your Mojo Working
Looking for a little summer lovin’? How about some mojo magic?
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
- Jul 14
- 1 min
Happiness once came in a small metal box
Relieve childhood memories at the Lunchbox Museum in Columbus, Ga.
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
- Jul 7
- 4 min
Southern Writer Spotlight: Davida G. Breier
Davida Breier's “Sinkhole” is a suspenseful, darkly comic, coming-of-age tale immersed in 1980s Central Florida.
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
- Jul 1
- 1 min
Stranger Things at The Lucky Rabbit
The Lucky Rabbit in Hattiesburg recreates scenes from the Netflix hit "Stranger Things."
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
- Jun 29
- 2 min
Southern Writer Spotlight: Dan Petrosini
Dan Petrosini of Florida is the author of several mystery and suspense series.
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
- Jun 24
- 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
- Jun 21
- 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 25
- 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 22
- 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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