By Nathan Coker
In Simply Lou
May 28th, 2021
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article and illustration by Lou Davenport I’ve been to a lot of weddings in my day, and I’ve always loved a good wedding. For that brief few hours, everyone is so happy, and all things seem possible. The first wedding I remember was my cousin, Beverlee “Tuttie” Albritton’s wedding when she married D...
By Nathan Coker
In Simply Lou
Apr 29th, 2021
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article and illustration by LOU DAVENPORT I I was going to write this month’s column on something else, but, as we have all heard, “a lady can change her mind.” So, I did! I recently had two different people wanting me to audition for the part of “Ouiser Boudreaux” for the play, “Steel Magnolias,” a...
By Nathan Coker
In Simply Lou
Mar 29th, 2021
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article and illustration by LOU DAVENPORT Train I ride….sixteen coaches long…. I do not remember when I first became fascinated by trains. It could have been being brought up in Bastrop, where two sets of tracks bisected the town, and you could count on being stopped by one anywhere you went, a...
By Nathan Coker
In Simply Lou
Mar 3rd, 2021
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article and illustration by LOU DAVENPORT “To everything, turn…turn…turn…There is a reason, turn…turn…turn….and a time to every purpose, under Heaven.” That song has always reminded me of spring. A season that makes everything new again; a time for renewal and transformation...
By Nathan Coker
In Simply Lou
Jan 28th, 2021
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article and illustration by LOU DAVENPORT Here in my car, I feel safest of all. I can lock all the doors. It’s the only way to live… I read somewhere that you can tell the “eras” of your life by the cars you remember. That’s true for me. I was a real “car nut” when […]...
By Nathan Coker
In Simply Lou
Jan 6th, 2021
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article by LOU DAVENPORT | original oil painting by ADAM DAVENPORT I recently saw a post and picture of our new Mayor, Friday Ellis, riding around with sanitation workers. It brought to mind memories of my dad, and I knew it was about time I wrote a column about the colorful character that he was, [...
By Nathan Coker
In Simply Lou
Nov 11th, 2020
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article by Lou Davenport 2020…. Could we in our wildest dreams ever have forseen a year like this has been? First, a deadly virus named Covid-19 appeared. We were locked down, quarantined, masked, and learned the words, “socially distance.” And of all things, a hurricane named Laura came to Mon...
By Nathan Coker
In Simply Lou
Oct 5th, 2020
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Simply Lou article and illustration by Lou Davenport It was a chilly, dark evening the day before Halloween in Aberdeen, Mississippi nearly 40 years ago. A baby was going to be born on that night, I just didn’t know when. I knew it was time to go to the hospital when the labor pains had […]...
By Nathan Coker
In Simply Lou
Sep 8th, 2020
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article by LOU DAVENPORT Style is defined in the dictionary as a manner of doing something – a way of painting, composing, or building that is characteristic of a particular period, place, or movement. Generosity is the quality of being kind and generous. I discovered an almost unknown artist t...
By Cassie Livingston
In Simply Lou
Jul 29th, 2020
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article and illustration by LOU DAVENPORT I’ve often written about my big, loud, wonderful family. All my aunts and uncles are gone now, but oh the stories and memories they left me, especially food stories! My father was one of eight children born to my grandmother, Lily, and grandfather, Phillip, a...
