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Goldee’s Barbeque in Ft Worth — rated #1 by Texas Monthly for barbecue — hosts a brisket class, $700.
The Moshe Safdie model of Crystal Bridges, from a 2015 visit
Art & Object with 10 Must-Sees at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and a reminder that Frank Lloyd Wright’s Bachman Wilson House was moved to CB in 2014
A milk punch at the Carousel Bar at Hotel Monteleone, 2015
Inside Hook with a report from Tales of the Cocktail in New Orleans — espresso martinis and coffee drinks are super in, foams are back and so is the milk punch, tequila is doing a thing…
At Fine Books & Collections, A New Era for the Charleston Library Society, One of the Oldest Libraries in the US: How a Cultural Institution Founded in 1748 Continues to Foreground Access and Discussion
Non-extant: the Beverly Drive In, Hattiesburg MS, 2006
There’s one drive-in movie left in Mississippi — down from 70+ in the 1960s, today there’s just the Iuka Drivein.
The ‘Bending Light‘ exhibit at Women & Their Work, an art gallery in Austin, includes sculptures by Cat Martinez. Among those, her sculpture ‘Africatown, Generational Trauma’ about the Africatown, Alabama community — founded by the survivors of the last slaveship to the US. The exhibit is on through August 22.
The Bama Nut Shop, Brundidge AL, 2006
About peanut patties at Texas Highways
A tour of Pencil & Paper Co. Founder Gen Sohr’s Nashville home at Frederic — and from May, Go Inside a ‘Cotswolds-Meets-New Orleans’ Home
City Pork Brasserie & Bar, Baton Rouge, 2017
A rewind at Oxford American by Cynthia Greenlee on pimiento cheese:
Despite the injunctions of modern eat-local movements, the earliest pimento cheese seems to have been made with Neufchatel soft cheese, a French innovation that got an upgrade in New York, catalyzing the advent of cream cheese. The pimentos themselves may have crossed the Atlantic thrice, first as part of the Columbian Exchange, as Christopher Columbus is believed to have taken them back to Spain from the Americas. They then returned stateside as imports in the late nineteenth century, and the crop got a boost later when a Georgia farmer used his Congressional connections to get valuable seeds from abroad.
Mississippi Public Broadcasting’s Down South Dining interviews sweet Lee Harper: Lee is an artist and miniaturist from Oxford who recreates and preserves the history of real-life restaurants, bars, iconic juke joints, homes, and more in Mississippi and across the South through her art.
Bryant’s Grocery, Money MS, 2016
Square Books is taking preorders for Wright Thompson’s The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi about the killing of Emmett Till. It’s out September 24. John Grisham wrote, “The secrets of what happened in the barn in 1955 when a boy named Emmett Till was murdered have been buried for decades. The killers were never brought to justice and their allies covered up for them. With a passion for truth and justice, and a fierce determination to dig for the secrets, Wright Thompson has produced an incredible history of a crime that changed America.”
The Selby with a visit to Manuel Cuevas’ store, Manuel Couture, in Nashville.
Lighthouse at Sullivan’s Island, 2013
Dezeen has a piece on Sullivan’s Fish Camp on Sullivan’s Island in CHS. I’ve been there with a friend who has a beach home on SI, and it was already fun — now it’s been rethought by SDCO and Basic Projects so “guests can’t be sure if it’s 1982 or 2024” and yesssss.
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