Weekly notes on Southern art, architecture, food, and travel
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from a 2016 visit
At Southern Cultures, The Buford Highway Farmers Market by Diamond Forde
El Agave in Clanton AL, 2023
The documentary, Slice of Life: The American Dream. In Former Pizza Huts. was mentioned in this NYT article.
Leiper’s Fork, from a 2023 visit
The South’s Best Music Towns: Where to Find Your Groove at Garden & Gun includes Lafayette LA, Florence AL, St Augustine FL, Clarksdale MS, Kerrville TX, Bristol VA/TN, Greensboro NC, Macon GA, Asheville NC, Leiper’s Fork TN, Owensboro KY, Nashville, New Orleans, and Atlanta
Tee Eva’s, 2017
At Country Roads, NOLA ‘Nacular: Anthony DelRosario’s crusade to preserve New Orleans’s vernacular signage
They are almost always an advertisement, but sometimes a plea or reminder that Jesus Loves You or an idea: Cell Phone—Modern Ear Ache? When we talk about the local color of New Orleans, these hand-painted signs, which DelRosario describes as vernacular art, are part of the tapestry. In this instance, vernacular refers to “a language that is not standard or official, but instead specific to a particular community or culture.” I mean, you already know. Who dat, your mom ‘en ‘em. Making groceries, snoballs. Ain’t dere no more. The sign painters go a little further; their art is often the voice, or font, of an entire neighborhood.
and a reminder that Lester Carey’s lettering is available here, free, as a font.
Coquette, 2016
Coquette in New Orleans is closing after 18 years.
A visit to L.V.’s, 2009
The L.V. Hull Home and Heritage Center in Kosy has opened.
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