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DETOURS: Season Three
DETOURS: Season Two
Photo by Rusty Constanza, courtesy of Nick Spitzer.
Season 2, Episode 8: Where the Route Has Taken Nick Spitzer
Jordan, Alex, and contributor John Wirt sit down with host of NPR's American Routes Nick Spitzer to discuss his career chronicling American music, particularly Louisiana's
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Season 2, Episode 7: Whooping Crane Love Stories
Jordan and James are joined by guest Eva Szyszkoski, who shares the ins and outs of Louisiana's role in the international efforts to save the endangered Whooping Crane
Lucie Monk Carter
Season 2, Episode 6: Maida Owens, the "Louisiana Folklife Lady"
James and contributor Chris Turner-Neal sit down with Maida Owens to discuss the work of preserving Louisiana culture.
Lucius Fontenot
Season 2, Episode 5: "Well Read" : Hitachi
Managing Editor Jordan LaHaye Fontenot reads her story on the rice cooker's prominence in Acadiana
Jody Ray
Season 2: Episode 4: The Origins of Gumbo
Tracing gumbo back to its roots in West Africa as okra stew with Jody Ray
Season 2: Episode 3: Covering Country Roads
Behind-the-scenes of Country Roads magazine's cover selection process
Alexandra Kennon
Season 2: Episode 2: "You live your culture, or you kill your culture. There is no in between."
A musical plea to save Louisiana French language and culture from Jourdan Thibodeaux
Episode 1: Strange True Stories of My Louisiana Ancestors
The challenges and rewards of researching your Louisiana ancestry
DETOURS: Season One
Art by Marshall Blevins
Episode 8: Well Read: "I Believe in the Delta"
A reading from our Road Trips issue
Elijah Hail
Episode 7: "No Better Marketing Than Murder": Louisiana True Crime
The history and lore of three early 20th century Louisiana serial killers
Courtesy of the Historic New Orleans Collection
Episode 6: Embracing Proclivities: Tennessee Williams in New Orleans
How the playwright came to discover himself and many of his iconic characters and settings in and around the French Quarter
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Episode 5: From Skip Bertman to Spider-Man
Talking all things LSU baseball and Hollywood with stuntman, actor, and director Michael Papajohn
Episode 4: Between the Lines—"From Print to TikTok ... Eventually"
How does a print magazine stay relevant in today's social media landscape?
Illustration by Burton Durand
Episode 3: "Do I Need to Walk Around Slidell Naked?"
On his reporting adventure to the Indian Hills Nudist Park, Chris Turner-Neal bares all.
SARAH ALLEMAN PHOTOGRAPHY
Episode 2: "The Great Button Hunt"
Join us in one of St. Francisville's most iconic buildings, with Grandmother's Buttons founder Susan Davis, during the business's final days
Jordan LaHaye Fontenot
Episode 1: "Well, we've done it, haven't we?"
Meet your magazine editors-turned-podcast hosts, and learn about how we got here
DETOURS Season 1 Trailer
Join us in the attic of the iconic Grandmother's Buttons shop during its last days, digging through the depths of Louisiana's darkest criminal histories, and venturing over to the state's only clothing-optional campground.
Introducing: DETOURS, a Podcast by Country Roads Magazine
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