The Brown Hotel’s two-story lobby.
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Over the decades, Louisville’s Brown Hotel has played host to the likes of Harry Truman, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Crawford, Muhammad Ali, Jimmy Carter, George H. Bush, and Barack Obama. Last year it celebrated its centennial anniversary, and this week it’s welcoming guests for the 150th running of the Kentucky Derby. In honor of the event, the lobby is decked out with 150 roses, and a milliner will set up shop within the hotel to supply last-minute Derby hats. Learn more about this iconic venue, including how it became the birthplace of a Bluegrass sandwich staple: the Kentucky Hot Brown.
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New Iberia, Louisiana. In a G&G piece a couple years ago, the writer James Lee Burke wrote of his hometown: “The rain always struck me like a secular baptism—cold and clean and magical, clicking on the live oaks and palm fronds and the elephant ears that undulated in the current humming like a sewing machine close to the bank.” Recently, when I attended the Books Along the Teche Literary Festival, I finally got the chance to see what he was talking about.
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Swampy serenity: The Bayou Teche, Burke’s treasured fishing waters lined with native Louisiana irises, runs for some 135 miles, including right through downtown New Iberia. It’s fitting that a statue of Burke now stands on Main Street. The Houston sculptor Shirley Scarpetta created the bronze likeness, from big hat to belt buckle to boots, and dedicated it during the fest.
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Southern nuts: Everybody in town was raving about the new Pie Bar, a big slice of hospitality within the Cane River Pecan Company shop. Over savory gumbo and a slice of bourbon-pecan pie, I happily saw what all the fuss was about.
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Further reading: At the stately mansion Shadows-on-the-Teche, I learned about the new African American Historical Society, which goes deep on the history of the area. I also met the festival’s featured author Natalie Baszile, who wrote Queen Sugar, a novel set among the area’s sugar plantations. It’s next up on my reading list—this area, I saw in so many instances, inspires great storytellers.
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