Mama Sally’s House, Summertime For over six decades, Monroe artist Don Cincone has been on a remarkable journey that has taken him from a sharecropper’s cabin in Richland Parish to San Francisco, New York’s fashion district, movie sets in Hollywood, down to Mexico and back to his native rural North Louisiana. During that time, Cincone has developed a whimsical painting…
The Myrtles For years, owners have marketed The Myrtles Plantation in St. Francisville as “America’s most haunted house.” Several apparitions apparently haunt The Myrtles, but the most famous is Chloe, an enslaved woman who purportedly had her left ear removed when she was caught eavesdropping on a business conversation between the owner, Clarke Woodruff, and area residents. To further the…
Savannah Ray left her home in Ouachita Parish one weekend and returned with a dream. Her husband, Michael, says, “She went to Sonoma Valley and thought it was pretty.” With timing that comedians spend years honing, he gestures toward one block of Thirsty Farmer Winery & Vineyard, a quarter-acre in the family’s backyard in Calhoun. “This is what ‘pretty’ led…
At A Glance Hometown | Charenton, Louisiana Age | 49 Occupation | Candlemaker, shop owner, Fifolet Candle Makers Web | fifoletcandles.com Blink and you’ll miss the small, knee-high roadside “Candle Shop” sign out front. But off the main road, behind Frankin’s two-story Greek revival wonder known as the Shadowlawn house, on a slope of green that yawns right into…
With assimilation and time many of Louisiana’s Native American folkways faded into history. Handmade tribal crafts gave way to mass-produced items purchased at local box stores. But somewhere deep in the DNA of tribal members, the old ways remain and now an ancient but long-forgotten method of basket weaving among South Louisiana’s Houma Indians has been revived and now flourishes….
The Bayou St. John area (officially Faubourg St. John) in New Orleans is known for its historic residences. Pitot House, the Old Spanish Custom House and The Sanctuary, all facing the bayou, are among the architecturally and culturally significant properties. So, when, Tania Hahn and Melissa Warren became the first homeowners to build a new house on Moss Street in…
2022 Pine Leaf Boys, Festivals Acadiens et Créoles, Scène Ma Louisiane, Girard Park, Lafayette, March 19: Chris Segura, Thomas David, Drew Simon, Wilson Savoy, Jean BertrandIt’s an Acadiana tradition about to hit its golden anniversary. And even though it hit a speedbump during the pandemic, Festivals Acadiens et Créoles has returned. Twofold. The annual fall festival, which turns 50 in…
Food festivals abound, highlighting BBQ, Food Trucks, German food and drink, gumbo, gratons and more. Meanwhile fall festivals celebrating pumpkins, sugarcane, and wooden boats bring families together for good times while celebrating local culture. Carnival rides and haunted houses round out more activities available to Louisiana’s residents and visitors looking for thrills this season. Plan out your weekends now and…
Architectural watercolors by Jim Blanchard of Davis Jahncke projects are displayed gallery style in the family room. This house began on a napkin,” said Mia Jahncke, referring to the initial drawing by her father-in-law, New Orleans architect Davis Jahncke, who designed the house as his last project before retiring from a career of more than a half century. “Davis noodled…
With one bare foot steering the large silver press wheel, and two hands secure around the climbing boy’s bottom, his rainboots dangling over her ash-colored shop apron, this tangle of limbs and kinetic energy somehow stands in perfect poise, producing striking prints even so. With fresh ink sinking into paper, and cotton and linen, and then resting there to stir…
A Prayer for Justice and CompassionThe ancients believed birds were messengers of the gods linking humans to the supernatural world. Baton Rouge artist Mary Lee Eggart’s colorful drawings of various birds represent her deep spirituality, faith and love of nature. More recently, however, her usually uplifting drawings have taken a darker turn to reveal a spiritual sickness in a society…
photo courtesy: tiger& peacock; catherine & mary’s; old dominick’s distilleryWhile barbecue and the rich music scene are reasons enough to visit Memphis, it turns out that the Bluff City has much more to offer. Of course the hopping nightlife on neon-lit Beale Street shouldn’t be missed, nor should Sun Studio for the touch of nostalgia it provides as a recording…
A Florida yew, one of the world’s rarest trees, thrives at Briarwood.In March 2022, three months into her role as caretaker of Briarwood Nature Preserve in Saline, Bayli Quick turned off Louisiana Hwy 9 to find the tall pines along Caroline Dormon Road ablaze. Rather than turn back, Quick drove into the flames. She had neighbors to check on, not…
Poydras Corridor sculpture “Opening & Closing” by Fritz BultmanPhotos courtesy Helis Foundation; Eatlafayette; Alexandria Zoo Revel in the cool A/C of a hopping restaurant while sampling regional flavors or satisfy a craving for creativity by viewing art installations across the state. Park the RV at one of Louisiana’s beautiful campgrounds and cool off with a dip or a boat ride…
Mississippi is clearly an inspired place—creativity teems in its waterways, grows as tall as its oaks, adds flavor to its food, and can be heard in the diverse voices of the state’s many musicians and writers. From the beautiful Mississippi Gulf Coast to the Appalachian foothills, Mississippi offers mile upon mile of adventure for wanderers and dreamers. For aspiring writers…
Quail hunters pass through the storm-ravaged Vernon Unit of Kisatchie National Forest. Did You Know? Facts and Figures • There are 154 national forests in the United States, and the U.S. Forest Service manages 193 million acres. • The Calcasieu Ranger District, which includes two non-adjacent “Units” — Vernon and Evangeline — covers more than 182,000 acres. The Vernon Unit…
Stepping from The Enterprise (“It boldly goes where no boat should go”), Bryan Piazza and Joseph Baustian enter the dry bed of a nameless bayou. It’s winter in the Atchafalaya Basin, a season of low water and expectation. In the coming weeks, rising water will carry seeds of yellowtop, depositing them in the high ground of America’s largest river swamp….
Spring IbisAre science and art really that much different? Not to New Orleans artist and environmentalist Pippin Frisbie-Calder. Like many artists — including Leonardo da Vinci — who draw no distinction between art and science, Frisbie-Calder sees science as an invaluable resource for creating her art. Both require conceptualization, imagination and visualization. They are the foundation of Frisbie-Calder’s art. Working…
At A Glace Hometown London Age 27 Occupation Illustrator, product designer Website Wemightbeonfire.net Instagram @wemightbeonfire It’s not all that common to find a New Orleanian slowly roaming the French Quarter, camera in hand and enthralled with every curve of age-old architecture, or patch of rust on wrought iron, or splash of quirky plastic like the most energetic of first-time…
At a Glance Square Footage 2,600 Interior Design Nealy Frentz Outstanding features Board and batten exterior, porch with Mexican tile, patio with pool and hot tub, reclaimed pine floor on second story. Nealy and Keith Frentz were barely inside a Covington house they admired when they both fell hard for the place. “I knew when we walked into the…
These immature strawberries will turn red and be ready to pick in ten days. AT A GLANCE Location Tangipahoa Parish Flora Birdbill spike grass, scarlet oak, little floating heart Fauna+Insects Southeastern blue sucker, Hodges’ clubtail, gopher tortoise Five years after the 2016 Tangipahoa River flood, William Fletcher’s tractor has stalled in the middle of his five-and-a-half-acre strawberry farm in…
At A Glance Hometown Greenwood, South Carolina Age 36 Instagram @basqo_ It’s an epic, bejeweled beast of folkloric proportions. Or else it’s a mischievous, spinning sun prop escaped from the set of a children’s TV show and loose on the sidewalks of New Orleans. Whatever it may be, it’s certainly 10 feet of electric skin, all patchworked fabric…
The Flat Rock Playhouse, the state theatre of North Carolina, began in 1940 Photos Courtesy: Hubba hubba smokehouse; flat rock playhouse Louisiana residents don’t have to be told how hot and miserable the deep coastal South can become when the depths of summer take hold. When temperatures climbed in Charleston, our South Carolina brethren headed to the mountains for relief,…
AT A GLANCE Architect Kevin Gossen, Gossen Architects Interior Design Kiki Frayard Builder Mark LaBorde Total Square Footage 6,224 Outstanding Features Stone archways, metal windows, enclosed courtyards, patterned walnut floor in bar area While an Acadian cottage might not be the typical choice of architecture for a California residence, the classic Mission Revival architecture (common to many places in…
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