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The Veiled Lady and the Bird Man
Quarter Notes Richard Goodman Quarter Notes Richard Goodman

The Veiled Lady and the Bird Man

The controversial 19th-century naturalist John James Audubon is best known for his artwork in Birds of America - but few have heard of a portrait commissioned by a mysterious New Orleans woman in 1821, a painting that’s been lost to history.

– by Richard Goodman

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Of Two Mississippi Writers
Quarter Notes Kenneth Holditch Quarter Notes Kenneth Holditch

Of Two Mississippi Writers

Despite the state's legacy of repression, some of the country's best writers are Mississippi natives. It's the birthplace of contemporary luminaries like Kiese Laymon and Jesmyn Ward. Tennessee Williams scholar Kenneth Holditch looks back at two 20th-century literary lions who wrote about that “postage stamp of native soil.”

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In Memoriam: Lost Lands
Quarter Notes Bethany Ewald Bultman Quarter Notes Bethany Ewald Bultman

In Memoriam: Lost Lands

As the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina approaches, a look back at the unnamed 1856 storm that erased the Island of Derniere off Louisiana’s coast, taking the lives of more than 400 people, including thirteen ancestors of the writer.

- by Bethany Ewald Bultman

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It's Fruitcake Weather
Quarter Notes Rheta Grimsley Johnson Quarter Notes Rheta Grimsley Johnson

It's Fruitcake Weather

Truman Capote's A Christmas Memory possesses the power to make even contemporary readers summon up their own most-cherished holiday recollections.

-by Rheta Grimsley Johnson

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The Bay St. Louis Booker
Quarter Notes Edward Gibson Quarter Notes Edward Gibson

The Bay St. Louis Booker

​On November 8, 1983 - 36 years ago this week - legendary New Orleans pianist James Booker passed on. While his legacy grows even stronger in the city, recent interviews with Bay St. Louis family members give details about Booker's early life on the Mississippi coast - and explain why "the Bay" became one of his touchstones.

- by Edward Gibson

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