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Southerners love to pose with rocks
Lookout Mountain near Chattanooga may take the prize for the photos snapped.

Cheré Dastugue Coen
Jun 12, 20222 min read
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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.

Cheré Dastugue Coen
Jun 9, 20222 min read
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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!

Cheré Dastugue Coen
Jun 7, 20222 min read
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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.

Cheré Dastugue Coen
Jun 1, 20223 min read
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The Witch Tree of Old Louisville
The Witch Tree of Louisville has a strange history and a following that continues today.

Cheré Dastugue Coen
May 25, 20223 min read
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The Three-legged cat of Natchez
A limping stray cat in Natchez, Mississippi, captured the hearts of City Hall.

Cheré Dastugue Coen
May 18, 20221 min read
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Southern Writer Spotlight: Mike Nemeth
Spotlight on Author Mike Nemeth.

Cheré Dastugue Coen
May 13, 20223 min read
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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.

Cheré Dastugue Coen
May 5, 20222 min read
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Reliving an Alabama Distillery Raid
The South loves a good reenactment, including a law enforcement raid on a moonshine still.

Cheré Dastugue Coen
May 2, 20222 min read
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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!

Cheré Dastugue Coen
Apr 26, 20222 min read
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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.

Cheré Dastugue Coen
Apr 20, 20221 min read
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The buried leg of John Bell Hood
Alongside the road in the woods of northwest Georgia lies a grave containing only a leg.

Cheré Dastugue Coen
Apr 15, 20223 min read
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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.

Cheré Dastugue Coen
Mar 30, 20223 min read
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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.

Cheré Dastugue Coen
Mar 12, 20223 min read
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This Weekend is All About Daffodils
Southern gardens offer ways to honor that brilliant harbinger of spring - the daffodil.

Cheré Dastugue Coen
Mar 4, 20222 min read
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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.”

Cheré Dastugue Coen
Mar 4, 20223 min read
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Writer Spotlight: Jason P. Reed
Jason Reed writes novels about his home in South Louisiana, what he calls "a wonderfully weird, welcoming place."

Cheré Dastugue Coen
Mar 2, 20226 min read
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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.

Cheré Dastugue Coen
Feb 25, 20223 min read
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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.

Cheré Dastugue Coen
Feb 22, 20222 min read
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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.

Cheré Dastugue Coen
Feb 22, 20223 min read
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