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Saturdays Down South: SEC Football Traditions
Yeers, cheers and mascots run the gamut in a region that goes crazy for the sport.
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
- Aug 13
- 4 min
It's Time Again to Storm the Sazerac
Take a trip back in time at the Roosevelt Hotel in New Orleans and enjoy the city's official cocktail!
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
- Jul 26
- 3 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 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
- 2 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Dec 24, 2020
- 2 min
Bonfires on the Levee
Every Christmas Eve folks along the River Parishes, what we call counties outside Louisiana, build massive wooden bonfires along the...
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
- Dec 1, 2020
- 2 min
Forget gingerbread houses — The Grand Hotel in Fairhope comes to life in sweet miniature!
Gingerbread houses are all the rage this time of year, and it’s not uncommon to find hotels and resorts offering classes and contests....
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
- Sep 24, 2020
- 5 min
Diamond hunting in Arkansas?
More than 30,000 diamonds have been found in the Natural State.
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
- Sep 8, 2020
- 2 min
Sweeping superstitions
Southerners have lots of weird and wacky broom superstitions.
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
- Jul 20, 2020
- 2 min
Car graveyard's more like it at Georgia's Old Car City
The seven miles of trails at Old Car City contain roughly 4,400 old cars as well as other deteriorating items.
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