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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, 20225 min read
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, 20222 min read
You Can Win & Eat Your Cake, Too
The Great St. Pete Cupcake Competition returns for its 13th decadent year.
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
Jul 20, 20223 min read
Get Your Mojo Working
Looking for a little summer lovin’? How about some mojo magic?
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
Jul 14, 20222 min read
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, 20222 min read
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, 20222 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20221 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20212 min read
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, 20212 min read
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, 20212 min read
The Annual Return to Mayberry
The North Carolina town that inspired the show celebrates native Andy Griffith.
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
Dec 24, 20202 min read
Bonfires on the Levee
The Louisiana holiday tradition lights the way for Papa Noel.
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
Dec 1, 20202 min read
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, 20205 min read
Diamond hunting in Arkansas?
More than 30,000 diamonds have been found in the Natural State.
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Sep 8, 20202 min read
Sweeping superstitions
Southerners have lots of weird and wacky broom superstitions.
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
Jul 20, 20202 min read
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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