Few thoroughfares offer as rich a history as Louisiana's River Road between New Orleans and Baton Rouge. In this third edition of her extremely popular guide, Along the River Road, Mary Ann Sternberg provides a revised introduction, new images, and updated information on sites and attractions as well as tales and local lore about favorite and overlooked destinations. Featuring background information about the area and a detailed guided tour -- upriver on the east bank and downriver along the west -- the book gives an overview of the River Road, serving as an accessible and definitive companion to exploring the corridor. Sternberg's abiding appreciation of the area's allure, garnered over twenty years, produces a must-have travel companion to a place that far exceeds its common reputation as only a parade of elegant antebellum mansions. In this new edition, she again encourages travelers to experience the many treasures of this wondrous byway for themselves, so they too can see how much it has changed over the past decade.

In an evocative sequel to the acclaimed "New Orleans: Elegance and Decadence, " Sexton returns with an in-depth visual journey through the hidden mansions--some inhabited, many now long abandoned--of Louisiana's River Road. 200+ color photos.

Death and the law in a small South Carolina town. It's springtime in 1978 and Elizabeth Chase, a young public defender from Boston, returns to her ancestral home of Weenee, South Carolina, to attend the funeral services for her grandfather. But when the county sheriff pulls a severed head from the bottom of the Weenee River, Elizabeth becomes involved in the most shocking homicide the small town has ever seen. Reluctantly, Elizabeth agrees to defend the African-American man accused of the gruesome murder. It isn't long before she starts to realize that nothing in Weenee-from a new romance to the eccentrics who drink bourbon in the afternoons-is what it seems. Evocatively set in the rural South, this suspenseful and realistic novel draws upon the author's own experiences as a public defense attorney and judge in a small town to probe themes ranging from racial tension and voodoo to drug trafficking and revenge.

This book features cultural information and recipes from plantations and other places within these Louisiana parishes: East Baton Rough Parish, Iberville Parish, Ascension Parish. St. James Parish, St. John the Baptist Parish, St. Charles Parish, Orleans Parish, St. Bernard Parish, Plaquemines Parish.

THE RIVER ROAD is an evocative novel of becoming a runner in 1972. Filled with compelling stories of runners, running, history, the 1972 U.S. Olympic Track & Field Trials and the Munich Olympics, it brings to life an era in which the U.S. competed for gold in nearly every distance running event. As many of the sport's icons dominate their events in Eugene and prepare for Munich, fifteen-year-old Lenny prepares for his first season of varsity cross country. Inspired by Jim Ryun, Frank Shorter and Steve Prefontaine, Lenny also learns that Olympic distance runners have come from Minnesota and trained on the same River Road on which he runs. A world of running lore that he never knew existed is opened to him and helps him begin to explore and realize his own ability to run.

Mississippi River Ramble-Driving the Great River Road is a thirty day trip in a motorhome up the Great River Road National Scenic Byway from the small town of Venice, Louisiana, some eighty miles downriver from New Orleans, to Bemidji, Minnesota, over a thousand miles upriver. Enjoy the ride over hill and dale through picturesque scenery, enchanting historical small towns with names such as Bad Axe, Elsah, Genoa, Keokuk, Little Falls, New Madrid, Quincy, Red Wing, and Victory. Explore superlative larger cities, such as Minneapolis/St. Paul, New Orleans, and St. Louis. Enjoy the often lighthearted recollections of motor coach sightseeing trips of local attractions, such as the Crayfish Festival at Breaux Bridges, Louisiana; Mardi Gras, French Quarter, and Oak Alley Plantation in New Orleans; the Vicksburg National Military Park in Mississippi; Graceland, the home of Elvis Presley; Lorraine Motel, where Dr. Martin Luther was assassinated, the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee; the St. Louis Arch, and the Budweiser Clydesdale Horses in St. Louis, the boyhood home of Mark Twain in Hannibal, Missouri; the Mormon Temple in Nauvoo, Illinois; Amana Colonies in Iowa; the Field of Dreams in Dyersville, Iowa; and the Mall of America in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Take pleasure in, and chuckle a bit with Herb Williams' fifth book and the first in a series covering his travels throughout the United States.