Your 20 Favorite Stories of 2020
Medicinal plants, prairie dive bars, roaming Carnival krewes, crawfish farms, and local history tales from tall to true topped your list (so Google tells us)
We hardly need to open this list by lamenting on the trials of 2020. Instead we'd like to thank you, dear reader, for sticking with us.
While we're sure you did your fair share of "doom scrolling" this year reading about the state of the pandemic, politics, and the many natural disasters that struck our region and beyond (we certainly did), you still made time to appreciate art, take in nature, and learn about the extraordinary culture of our state with us.
We took solace in looking beyond the local and global strife (though we're so grateful to the news publications who do the important work of covering it), and found relief in sitting down with the people who make our region special, even if the interviews were conducted wearing masks or over the phone.
[Read more stories inspired (provoked?) by the experience of 2020, here.]
And even with everything going on, you still joined us in escaping into these stories. We consulted Dr. Google, who tells us that in 2020 you most loved tales of crawfish farmers, medicinal plants, walking Carnival krewes, prairie dive bars, rogue zinnia planters, Vodou priests, and local history and adventures galore. Your favorites were eclectic, complex, and often a bit weird—just like you, and us, and this wondrous region. That's how we prefer it. Don't ever change.
—Alexandra Kennon, Arts & Entertainment Editor
If your favorite story didn't make this list, or you otherwise want to revisit our other stories from 2020, you can find our content all the way back to 2016 in our Issue Archive. If you'd like to continue to read these kinds of stories in 2021 (and beyond!), be sure to subscribe here. As always, thanks for reading!