Cheré Dastugue Coen
Ghost hunting in New Orleans
The Bourbon Orleans hotel in New Orleans has plenty of spirits who refuse to check out.
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
Sep 123 min read
5 eco-friendly ways to enjoy the Northshore of New Orleans
Biking, hiking and swamp tours get visitors in the great outdoors that's South Louisiana. Bike Along Tammany Trace Louisiana’s only...
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
Jun 62 min read
Fields of gold — Louisiana festival honors the bright summer flower
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Sunflower Festival and Trail. There’s a stretch of northwest Louisiana where sunflowers grow...
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
Feb 244 min read
Can baby animals be any cuter?
Audubon Aquarium of the Americas in New Orleans welcomes new penguin chick.
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
Dec 20, 20231 min read
Scuba Claus?
Santa's all wet at the Audubon Aquarium in New Orleans.
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
Oct 8, 20235 min read
Gumbo-licious!
Autumn means gumbo weather in Louisiana.
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
Jun 18, 20222 min read
'Little Grand Canyon' in Louisiana? Well, kind of.
Longleaf Vista in the Kisatchie Forest of Louisiana offers a gorgeous view and a 1.5-mile trail down to a bayou.
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
Jun 7, 20222 min read
The Smallest Church in the South?
The Chapel of the Madonna in White Castle, Louisiana, is arguably the smallest church in the South — if not the world!
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
Apr 20, 20221 min read
The Odd Bayou Art of Kenny Hill
Bricklayer Kenny Hill settled in the small bayou town of Chauvin in 1988, erecting a tent on a bayou-side lot while he built his home.
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
Dec 4, 20212 min read
Happy Birthday Bunk Johnson
The Bunk Johnson Jazz, Arts, and Heritage Festival and Shadows-on-the-Teche will celebrate New Iberia’s Bunk Johnson with a surprise party.
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
Oct 13, 20216 min read
Geauxst Hunting at LSU
An excerpt from “Haunted Baton Rouge” by Bud Steed, published by The History Press.
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
Aug 22, 20214 min read
The Legend of Blue Moon Bayou
This short story was originally published in The Times of Acadiana, Lafayette, Louisiana. It became part of my second book of The Viola...
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
Jun 8, 20213 min read
The Day the Civil War Stopped
Sometimes there's grace even in war. I live in a Georgia town where Union soldiers are buried in a national cemetery and the Confederates...
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
Mar 25, 20212 min read
Follow the trail to Clovis Crawfish and Friends
Scavenger hunt celebrates 60th anniversary of cherished book. Children love reading about animals and there’s something so adorable about...
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
Dec 24, 20202 min read
Bonfires on the Levee
The Louisiana holiday tradition lights the way for Papa Noel.
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
Dec 20, 20203 min read
The Louisiana town that moved to Arizona
Excerpted from "Forest Hill, Louisiana: A Bloom Town History" by Cheré Coen William M. Cady and his Cady Lumber Company established two...
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
Dec 19, 20203 min read
City of Hey Baby
I’ve found that many Americans hail from cities, but they move away and are happily identified with their new home. For those of us...
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Cheré Dastugue Coen
Nov 16, 20201 min read
Honoring an Louisiana outlaw legend
Louisiana has installed its first Legends and Lore Marker — and it’s to honor an outlaw. The historical marker unveiled at the Merryville...
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