Louisiana satsumas ripen from September into early December. See when the LSU AgCenter says Brown's Select and Owari are ready and how to pick one by taste.

The Blackpot Festival & Cookoff turns 20 on Oct. 30 and 31 at Vermilionville in Lafayette. See the lineup, cast-iron cook-off, camping and ticket details.

The Louisiana Book Festival is free Saturday, Oct. 31, in downtown Baton Rouge. See hours, parking, an Irma Thomas biography, horror, poetry and kids' events.

All Saints' Day is Sunday, Nov. 1. See the 2026 cemetery blessing times in New Orleans and Lacombe, and how some Louisiana families still tend graves.

The State Fair of Louisiana runs Oct. 29 to Nov. 15 in Shreveport. Advance adult tickets are $11.50, and admission is free before 3 p.m. on open weekdays.

The Washington Parish Fair runs Oct. 21-25 in Franklinton with free main-stage shows: Frank Foster tonight, LeAnn Rimes Saturday and Louisiana music Sunday.

By 8:30 on a Saturday morning, the red-brick bar in Mamou is already crowded. Couples are waltzing across the floor, a Cajun band is set up with accordion and fiddle, and the drinks on the bar include Budweiser and Bloody Marys. This is Fred's Lounge, which according to its website is open Saturdays from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., and for a couple of hours every week, the whole morning goes out live on the radio. The broadcast belongs to KVPI, "The Legend," 1050 AM out of Ville Platte

Louisiana has an official state meat pie, and it is spelled out in law. "There shall be an official state meat pie," reads Section 170.9 of Title 49 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes. "The official state meat pie shall be the Natchitoches Meat Pie." The Legislature passed it in 2003, and the act even authorizes the pie's use on official state documents and alongside the state insignia. The pie itself is simple to describe. It is a half-moon hand pie with a crimped edge, fille

On Oct. 16, 1954, a young singer from Memphis walked onto the stage of the Municipal Auditorium in Shreveport for his first appearance on the Louisiana Hayride. Elvis Presley had already been turned away by the Grand Ole Opry. Seventy-two years later, the building where Shreveport gave him a weekly radio audience is still standing at 705 Elvis Presley Avenue, and you can still walk across that stage. The Hayride started more than six years before Elvis got there. It went on t

In the far northeast corner of Louisiana, off Highway 577 in West Carroll Parish, a set of grassy ridges and mounds sits on the edge of Macon Ridge, overlooking Bayou Macon. From a pickup truck on the highway it can look like pasture. It is one of the most important archaeological sites in North America, and since 2014 it has shared a list with the pyramids of Giza and the Great Wall of China as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The site is Poverty Point, named for a 19th-century

There are bottles of Tabasco on diner counters in Shreveport, in soldiers' rations and on restaurant tables in countries most Louisianans will never visit. Every one of them traces back to a low hill rising out of the marsh in Iberia Parish, where the McIlhenny family has been making pepper sauce for more than 150 years and where visitors can still walk through the place it is made. Avery Island sits a few miles inland from Vermilion Bay, and it is an island mostly in the Lou

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