One Way Y’all
New Orleans LA, 2016.
This Week’s Various
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A gorgeous 1898 home with seven fireplaces and double staircase in Selma at…$329.9k
Gee’s Bend quilters in The Week in Art podcast:
On exhibit beginning February 28 at the Irish Museum of Modern Art: Kith & Kin The Quilts of Gee’s Bend — with a year-long run.
The Tom Fitzmorris remembrance in the NYT:
The political consultant James Carville, a lifelong New Orleanian, was a fan.
“Being the food critic in the early 21st century in New Orleans was like being the art critic in the late 15th century in Florence,” he said in an interview. “You had a lot to cover.”
At Frederic:
Planting New Seeds on a Centuries-Old Plantation
Keith G. Robinson has sensitively restored a historic 1841 farmhouse and gardens in Georgia.
Saturdays were also casual, but Sundays were always in the formal dining room with linens, china, silver flatware, and a beautifully set table. From the age of eight, I foraged in our own garden and the surrounding woodland and fields for flowers from which I created centerpieces for Sunday dinner. Time was spent preparing and presenting the meal and we took our time enjoying it in a space that felt special.
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Spring 2025 is the Oxford American’s Food Issue. Inside, A Local Loaf on Niedlov’s in Chattanooga.
Joe Minter is having his first solo show on the West Coast as part of Parker Gallery‘s inaugural exhibitions. Going on through March 29.
The Key West Art & Historical Society’s Tennessee Williams Key West Festival begins March 2 and lasts all month.
From KQED, on a new Edna Lewis documentary:
And so, during a podcast interview two years ago, Freeman wondered aloud, “Where is the documentary on Edna Lewis’ life? Where is the sort of HBO prestige series that Julia Child has?” As it turns out, documentary filmmakers Hannah Ayers and Lance Warren heard the interview and reached out to Freeman to collaborate on exactly that — what eventually became Finding Edna Lewis, which aired last year as a six-part web series through Virginia Public Media. Now, Freeman and her team have turned the series into a more polished hour-long documentary that includes breathtaking, newly digitized recordings of Lewis’ voice.
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That Urban Cowboy & More Nashville
Just realized I never posted our stay at the Urban Cowboy Hotel in Nashville this summer — such a great, fun, unique place
There are actually four Urban Cowboy hotels — two here in Nashville including this and the Dive Motel, plus one in the Catskills, and another in Denver.
We were in the penthouse — there in the tower above. The restaurant mentioned on the facade is a food truck adjacent the hotel. The bar is inside, and while we didn’t have time to linger there at the moment, we were treated to complimentary tastes of whiskey.
The lobby is the front of the home, with checkin straight from the door. There’s ample seating and it all has a great feel.
The bar
Now to the room — as is so common when homes are remodeled into hotels, the bathroom was very small. The claw-foot tub, then, was situated in the main part of the room along with a small-scale leather sofa and some other furnishings, like the travel dresser.
And inside the turret was the actual bedroom, with a Pendelton coverlet.
And looking up, fabulous:
Some of the other things we did on this particular visit included a visit to the Frist Art Museum
faaaabulous fabulous fabulous fabulous meal at Jashan
a concert fundraiser at The Grand Ole Opry celebrating 30 Years of Forrest Gump
late drinks and bites at Bad Idea
and we tried walking it all off by making some stops on the Natchez Trace on the way home, including time on the Old Trace:
Dry Cleaning Mixtape
1 Hour Martinizing Cleaners, Tupelo MS, (from top:) 2019, 2018
Culver Cleaners, Decatur AL, 2012 (mural now non-extant)
Wells’, Jackson MS, 2011
Berthon’s Cleaners, Ensley AL, 2020
Big B Cleaners, Murphreesboro TN, 2007
Odorless Dry Cleaners, Carbon Hill AL, 2014
Vogue Cleaners, Birmingham AL, 2020
Zenith Cleaners, Birmingham AL, 2009 (top) and 2011
Kolb’s Cleaners, Jackson MS, 2009
Space Age Shirt Finishing: Perfection Cleaners Laundry, Meridian MS, 2021
1951 3100 Chevy Panel Truck for Greyhound Shirt Laundry on display in exhibit at the Savoy Automobile Museum, Cartersville GA, 2024
Sno-White Cleaners and Laundry, Pell City AL, 2018
Dedicated
Dedicated to the Glory of G-d
And the Service of Mankind
East Lake United Methodist Church
East Lake neighborhood of Birmingham AL, 2011.
Drinks Beer & Groceries
Famous LA Poboys
Houma LA, 2012.
This Week’s Various
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Not certain what projects will be included in the exhibit; this is from a small grouping of RS homes in Greensboro.
The National Building Museum opens the exhibit South Forty: Contemporary Architecture and Design in the American South beginning tomorrow, February 15. Among what’s featured, Auburn’s Rural Studio.
Above, Rural Studio’s Glass Chapel in Masons Bend AL, from a 2009 visit — unfortunately, it has not weathered well.
Architect Paul Rudolph’s (he went to high school in Athens, Alabama) Sanibel Island FL Walker Guesthouse is on the market for $2M. From ARTnews:
Brown Harris Stevens has listed the one-bedroom, one-bathroom modernist structure, describing the guesthouse as “a monumental work of radical design and masterful skill,” “one of the most important architectural designs of the twentieth century (by one of its most influential architects),” and a “ground-breaking work of art.”
BTW, I found the 1965 copy of Life Magazine that features the Wallace residents in Athens online. It’s mentioned that the pillars are 9 feet around.
From Smithsonian: Archaeologists Discover Lost Burial Site of Enslaved People on President Andrew Jackson’s Tennessee Plantation.
The grave for Jim, in Old Oakwood Cemetery in Montgomery:
“Here lies Jim, slave of S. Schuessler, died June 14, 1854, aged 30 years. Remembered for his virtue.”
one of the three free kindergarten buildings of Maud Lindsay’s Florence Free Kindergarten still stands
Maud Lindsay 1874-1941, who established the first free kindergarten in Alabama — she was principal of it for 40+ years — and wrote 18 books, has her Mother Stories (published in 1912 by Milton Bradley).
Nelson Grice’s sculpture in Avondale Park in Birmingham features Miss Fancy, an elephant that used to reside there. It initially recieved some criticism for not being more realistic but…that wasn’t the idea:
Last year, he installed Long Tall Silly at Aldridge Garden in Hoover, AL:
Snow Hill, Alabama, from a 2009 visit
Pics here from Noah Purifoy’s Joshua Tree Outdoor Museum — he was born in Snow Hill, Alabama in 1917 and got an undergrad degree from Alabama State.
Brett Anderson writes for the NYT on where to find the best oysters in New Orleans and yes of course Casamento’s and yes of course Drago’s, with several others. The recipe for Oysters Mosca is included here. I have a NYT Cooking subscription, so let me know if you’d like me to gift you the recipe.
I got to see the Southern Living Photographers exhibit at Aldridge Gardens in Hoover, Alabama this week — it’s on through the first week of March.
In December, I mentioned Mark Cline’s Lady in the Lake sculptures and some other “giant people” — one that should be added to the list, this Wagon Ho man I found this month in Rainsville, Alabama:
Had a fun supper with the boys at Seoul Good — a Korean fried chicken place — at Stovehouse in Huntsville last week.
The boys are in LA on a school trip having a wonderful time. Hope you’re off doing something fun this week too! Happy Valentine’s Day! xoxo!
Crown Royal
Crown Royal
Crawford MS, 2011.
Original Whataburger A-Frames
Whataburger is celebrating its 75th year in 2025. How many original architecture (not the reworked) Whataburger A-frames are left in existence? Not sure. It was estimated about fifteen years ago we were down to 16 or so.
The first A-frame was store #24, an Odessa Whataburger opened in 1961. It’s since been demolished.
Just five or so years ago, it was estimated that the number of original A-frames may be down to ten.
Alabama has two of the original A-frames — I visited the one in Chickasaw last month:
100 N Craft Hwy, Chickasaw, Alabama 36611
And the one in Mobile on Government Street is still the original architecture. This is from a 2020 visit:
2461 Government St, Mobile, AL 36606
The others:
1101 Thomasville Rd, Tallahassee, Florida 32303
6106 Cameron Rd, Austin, Texas 78723
121 N Shoreline Blvd, Corpus Christi, Texas 78401 — heavily renovated, the A-frame has second-floor seating
311 W Camp Wisdom Rd, Duncanville, Texas 75116 — renovated but still has the old a-frame in the back
510 S 14th St, Kingsville, Texas 78363:
128 E Kearney St, Mesquite, TX 75149:
If I’m missing any original A-frame Whataburgers you know of, please let me know and I’ll update. Thank you! xoxo!
A Chin of Gold
This monument in West Blocton, Alabama includes an excerpt from Emily Dickinson’s The Moon
Hickory Hill Cemetery
West Blocton AL, 2010.
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