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Louisiana Life at the 2008 Louisiana Peach Festival

Louisiana Life Magazine spent a fun weekend in Ruston meeting and greeting at the 2008 Louisiana Peach Festival.  The theme of this year's festival was Stars and Peaches Forever and while peaches may not usually be associated with patriotism the peach ice cream certainly made our staff proud...

Around Louisiana-Greater New Orleans

LOUISIANA GROWNThe state’s tomatoLast summer, in the produce department of Dorignac’s Food Center, I was assailed by a wonderful fresh scent that was flower-like. Following my nose, I came to the source of the fragrance: a bin heaped with gleaming knobby scarlet-and- green Creole tomatoes from...

Around Louisiana-Baton Rouge/Plantation Country

Go to St. Joe’sNewly refurbished and snatched from decay, St. Joseph Plantation is another jewel that can be added to the precious necklace of plantations encircling both banks of the Mississippi River between New Orleans and Baton Rouge. Driving either bank of the River Road in Plantation Country...

Around Louisiana-Cajun Country

FORK IN THE ROAD

Bull RunOnce you’ve reached the simple white Spanish façade of Pamplona Tapas Bar and walked through the pepper-red door, you might find yourself looking instinctively for Ava Gardner, Tyrone Power or Papa Hemingway himself. This eatery could have been plucked from a scene in The...

Around Louisiana-Central Louisiana

“Alec’s” best kept secretI had a relative who briefly took over my great-grandmother’s home in Avoyelles Parish in the ‘50s and redecorated the old place. She stripped the doors off of ancient solid-mahogany armoires and turned them into bookshelves painted green. She replaced marble-topped...

Around Louisiana-Northern Louisiana

Regional Reports From Across the State

Around Louisiana-Greater New Orleans

LOUISIANA GROWNAzaleas

As a child, the appearance of azaleas in the dusky colors of a New Orleans spring always meant that the freedom of summer was just around the corner –– days filled with baseball, swimming, peaches, watermelons, plums, trips to the country and going shoeless. I’d go for walks...

Around Louisiana-Baton Rouge/Plantation Country

CAUSE TO CELEBRATEA class act

On Jan. 7, 2008, Louisiana State University became the first college football team in the history of the BCS National Championship to victoriously raise the crystal football as national champs twice. Belonging to arguably the strongest football conference in the...

Around Louisiana-Cajun Country

LOUISIANA GROWNBayou of the snake

It has been geologically, archeologically and paleontologically recorded that once the Mississippi River flowed much farther west than its current course, threading its mighty way through present-day Acadiana. Old Man River began to hear its siren call to drift...

Around Louisiana-Central Louisiana

PROFILETara!

Tara Bounds, 25, a native of Central Louisiana, was born with Down syndrome and a heart defect that required two open-heart surgeries before she reached the age of 5. Growing up as a cherished child allowed to run free in the sunshine with the proud and unwavering support of her mom,...