Monday, February 22, 2010

Matters Familias ~~ Howard Pritchartt ~~ Adventures in World War II

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* Photo by Hannah Reel for The Natchez Democrat.  Republished with permission. With an article coming up in The Natchez Democrat as ...
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Friday, November 20, 2009

Looking for Blossom

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This is one of Natchez's more recent characters. He's been walking around town for the last few years, going into people's ya...
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Tuesday, November 3, 2009

New Orleans Halloween

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Shantybellum found itself with a beautiful room way up high on the 7th floor of the Royal Sonesta Hotel in the New Orleans French Quarter fo...
Sunday, October 25, 2009

Ferriday Songfest Brings Out the Talent in Everyone

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It felt like the day after Christmas this morning as attendees and hit songwriters dragged their bags and guitar cases through the lobby and...
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Friday, October 23, 2009

Second annual Ferriday Songfest Songwriters' Workshop

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Shantybellum is excited. Tomorrow morning at 9 a.m., five hit songwriters will converge at the Arcade Theater in Ferriday, Louisiana, to im...
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Friday, October 9, 2009

Ghost Stories

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When I was a little girl, one of my very bestest friends in the whole world was Alma Carpenter, who lived in a huge, beautiful old house i...
Saturday, September 19, 2009

The Wait -- A Short Story

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They waited out the morning in a sad little coffee shop just off the interstate, one of those places 200 miles from nowhere that claimed it ...
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Thursday, September 10, 2009

Battle of the Belles

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Our friend Gary alerted us to a delicious article reposted in Time magazine about the acrimony between the Garden Clubs here in Natchez in ...
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Saturday, September 5, 2009

Mississippi Blues Trail -- Papa Lightfoot

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*Caption: Founder of the Natchez Bluff Blues Festival and Natchez Blues Heritage Association Eric Glatzer and Director of Cultural Heritage...
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Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Natchez Characters - Tommy Polk 2009 Kisatchi-Delta Regional Grassroots Citizen of the Year

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Kisatchie-Delta Regional Executive Director Heather Smoak Urena presenting 2009 Regional Grassroots Citizen award to Tommy Polk Natc...
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Monday, August 3, 2009

Matters Familia - Hidden Treasures

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My great aunt Annet could render some beautiful scenes in pen and ink. In the entire time I knew her, though, I'd never seen he...
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Saturday, August 1, 2009

Natchez Characters - Phil and Jimmi Lou Vasser

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Our friend Courtney Taylor has a new article in Country Roads Magazine this month about two of our favorite Natchez characters -- Phil and ...
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Thursday, July 23, 2009

Natchez Characters -- Cee Tee Kelly: The Perfect Storm

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The phone was ringing. Mission Impossible was on TV or maybe Bonanza . "Hello?" "Mister Pritchett?" "Yes?...
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Thursday, July 9, 2009

Do You Do Voodoo?

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*Woodcut print "Karma" by Chelsea Semb Shantybellum sports a couple of little Voodoo dolls in the kitchen. One of our guests, Chel...
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Sunday, July 5, 2009

New Friends at Shantybellum -- Diana and Paul Gessler

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*Click on the photos to see full size. They're wonderful! The first two pictures are four journal pages from the Gesslers' trip th...
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Saturday, July 4, 2009

Happy Fourth of July

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Last night friends gathered on the porch perched on the edge of the bluff over dark water, waiting. No breeze blew. Mosquitos feasted on our...
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Bingo Starr at the Carriage House

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Courtney has an article in the July issue of Country Roads Magazine about the new chef -- Bingo Starr -- at The Carriage House Restaurant ...
Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Road Trippin' Concordia Parish

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Elodie's got an article in this month's issue (July) of Louisiana Road Trip Magazine . The article is in .pdf format, page 17. *phot...
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Monday, June 29, 2009

I am Misssissippi

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Sunday, June 28, 2009

Matters Familias - Daddy

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In 1980, I married and moved to Los Angeles where I stayed for 27 years. As the years crept by, I began to worry about my parents, who wer...
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