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By Cassie Livingston
In Features
Jan 23rd, 2014
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  Fresh-cut Greenery Welcomes Friends and Family Home for the Holiday by P. Allen Smith IF I COULD ONLY DECORATE ONE AREA OF MY HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS IT WOULD BE THE FRONT DOOR. For me a door decked out for Christmas speaks to the spirit of the season even more than a Christmas tree.  A door dre...
By Nathan Coker
In Bayou Artist
Jan 2nd, 2014
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A Look Inside Keith Carroll’s Creative Décor article by Mary Napoli | photograph by Martin G. Meyers Keith Carroll is home, but he can’t stay.  In only a few days, he will trade the bayou for the big city and return to his life in Manhattan.  Several years ago, the Wisner native embarked on a [...
By Nathan Coker
In Bayou Artist
Jan 1st, 2014
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Photography by Joli Livaudais | Article by Mary Napoli It all began with a Renoir print that her parents hung in her childhood bedroom in Houston, Texas. As a little girl, she would gaze at the vibrant colors and dramatic brush strokes of the impressionistic artwork and daydream.  There was something...
By Cassie Livingston
In Bayou Profile
Jan 1st, 2014
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Preserving Memories Marshall Wayne Poindexter Invests His Life in His Taxidermy by Trent Livingston IN 1991, STARTING ON THE TRACK TO where he is today, Marshall Wayne Poindexter has become established in the taxidermy community. In a business that is as much artwork as is hard work, where “word of m...
By Cassie Livingston
In Bayou Pages
Jan 1st, 2014
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By The Editors of Garden & Gun | Review By Casey Matthews As a Southern ex-patriot who now lives in the frozen Midwest, I find myself fielding questions about what it is like to be “Southern.” A colleague of mine teaches William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” and refers to Emily as a southern bell...
By Nathan Coker
In Bayou Kidz
Jan 1st, 2014
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Ideas For Festive Family Fun This Holiday Season by Cindy G. Foust CHRISTMAS TIME IS HERE…HAPPINESS and Cheer…Fun for all that children call…Their favorite time of the year. Greetings BayouLife readers from my computer desk, writing this month’s column and listening to A Charlie Bro...
By Nathan Coker
In Bayou Outdoors
Jan 1st, 2014
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Share the Gifts You Have This Christmas article by Dan Chason Christmas is about kids.  I think that every grownup alive remembers Christmas from a child’s perspective, even though old memories are replaced with new ones.  I am no different.  Even though my parents did not have a lot, they taught us ...
By Nathan Coker
In Bayou Profile
Jan 1st, 2014
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In the season for giving, the Knight brothers know a thing or two about making the ultimate sacrifice for family. article by Michael DeVault | photography by Martin G. Meyers Robert Knight remembers watching what happened to his twin brother, Jonathan, in the weeks and months after Jonathan’s kidneys...
By Nathan Coker
In Born on the Bayou
Jan 1st, 2014
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by Mary Napoli | illustrations by Austin Bantel I have officially drunk the Kool-Aid…or sweet tea, as it were.  Which ever magical elixir it is that causes you to fall madly in love with the outdoor life of North Louisiana, I have consumed it. A year ago, I wouldn’t have been able to tell...
By Nathan Coker
In Bayou Eats
Jan 1st, 2014
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Article by Mary Napoli | Photography by Joli Livaudais One family. One kitchen. One dining room.  This was the Genusa’s Italian Restaurant that opened its doors in 1967.  When Cherry and Francis Genusa opened their business, the Monroe natives never dreamed that they would earn a devoted and de...