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• Homesick for Christmas

  —Thanks, Katrina

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  Southeast Louisiana is rich in its people, food and traditions. So it's no wonder that people who've had to move away for jobs or other reasons become homesick at this time of year. The Houma today dot com website carries this story about cajuns yearning for home:
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  Posted: December 22, 2009, 5:18pm EST
  by judyb

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• Corrosion Christmas Book Drive

  —New Orleans

  This Wednesday, Corrosion is starting a Christmas tradition. We're asking everyone to bring a book or two for donation to Louisiana Books 2 Prisoners. We all have plenty, really, even when things are so economically depressing, so lets consider the spirit of Christmas and do something for people is far' [...]

  Posted: December 21, 2009, 2:21pm EST
  

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• Our good restaurant experience for the weekend

  —Vicky Moos

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  We tried Huevos, on Banks Street (Wonderful Hubby is still trying to find a replacement for the Bluebird), on Sunday, and although he complained that it wasn't cheap (he wants both of us to eat for $12), we both thought the food was very good. I had the traditional Southern' [...]

  Posted: December 21, 2009, 7:36am EST
  by Vicky

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• My cousin attended a prospective student meeting ...

  —Liprap's Lament - The Line

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  My cousin attended a prospective student meeting at Tulane and told me about the answer to a question someone asked a current student there concerning what traditions, quirks, and other strange things occurred on the Tulane campus.
  
  The girl who answered told the students about some lady who's, like,' [...]

  Posted: December 14, 2009, 9:36am EST
  by Leigh C.

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• Songs to Aging Children Come

  —Odd Bits of Life in New Orleans

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  There are no artists today who write songs like this. The traditions that grew out of Lomax’s tape deck, the Celtic and African echos of our ancestors that blossomed in the Fifties and Sixties when a man with a guitar standing on the shoulders of Woody and Leadbelly could speak [...]

  Posted: December 06, 2009, 8:26pm EST
  by mf

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• Signs of recovery

  —Library Chronicles

  Before the flood I had made something of a Thanksgiving tradition of linking to a few excerpts from James Loewen's Lies My Teacher Told Me every year. This seems like as good a time as any to revive this tradition.
  
  Thanksgiving is full of embarrassing facts. The Pilgrims [...]

  Posted: November 26, 2009, 10:00am EST
  by jeffrey

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• WWL reports:LSU fans heading ...

  —Your Right Hand Thief

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  WWL reports:
  
  LSU fans heading to Oxford Mississippi may encounter the Ku Klux Klan as they go to the LSU-Ole Miss game on Saturday.
  
  It stems from the university ending a tradition at football games. The band has been instructed to stop playing a medley in which [...]

  Posted: November 21, 2009, 2:11pm EST
  by oyster

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