>>Ida’s aftermath: “It’s what you would expect from a Category 4 hurricane: It’s bad,” said
Colleen Udell, the president of Cajun Navy Relief, a group that has been assisting Gulf Coast residents after Hurricane Ida made landfall near Port Fourchon, Louisiana, on Sunday, the sixteenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. The death toll in Louisiana rose to at least six, and hundreds of thousands are still without power. When remnants of Ida moved north, flash flooding killed more than twenty people from Maryland to New York.
See our list of ways to help.
>> Rare music from the Man in Black: Just a few months after his famous
At Folsom Prison performance in 1968,
Johnny Cash played a show at San Francisco’s Carousel Ballroom, a venue operated by members of the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane. It was recorded by none other than
Owsley Stanley, the Dead’s famed sound engineer, and now, that 28-song set will be released for the first time this October.
Learn more about the album, and hear Cash’s performance of “The Ballad of Ira Hayes.”
>> What’s in your dove bucket? For some Southerners, including
G&G contributor
T. Edward Nickens, it’s the most wonderful time of the year: the week before the dove season opener! That’s when Nickens readies his dove bucket, stuffing it with everything he needs to make the most of a long, hot day in the field. In a video for his Wild South column, he shows you exactly what’s inside, from a nifty dove strap to a collapsible fishing pole (and no, it’s not for fishing).
Watch the video here.