I'm going to a concert out that way next Sunday. It looks in the middle of nowhere. Wondering what I am getting myself into.
St. Francisville is a beautiful colonial town full of live oak trees, splendid old antebellum and victorian houses, old churches and many antique stores. There are a couple of good eateries and the nearby Tunica and Feliciana hills are covered with picturesque antebellum plantations. Too bad they closed the old ferry when the new bridge was built, but the riverboats always stop in St. Francisville for the tourists to see the old south.
My aunt Teeta owns "The Myrtles Plantation" which is supposedly the most haunted house in America. It is in St. Francisville. http://www.myrtlesplantation.com/
Get out! I love The Myrtles. Back in the stone age when I was at LSU, I worked for The Reveille and, one year around Halloween, I did a story on The Myrtles. Then when I was teaching, I did a yearly unit on Louisiana folklore that included some of the stories from The Myrtles. One of my students was so fascinated with the stories that she talked her parents into taking her there one weekend. It happened that the Oprah show as filming a piece on the plantation and its history while she was there and they interviewed her. She ended up (on videotape) on the Oprah show. I don't know if the house and grounds are haunted or not but it's a sorta creepy place.
Thanks! The concert is at Hemingbough Event Center. That place looks awesome. Amphitheater on a lake.
I took my daughters there for a tour a couple of years ago. My younger one, who was only six at the time, couldn't stop talking about the place for weeks. She loved the ghost stories, especially about the slave, Chloe.
One of the best scenic drives in the state is the Old Tunica Trace, a sunken old wagon road through the Tunica Hills. You take the highway to Angola and get off on old Highland road. There are a half-dozen old plantations along Highland Rd. Before it loops back to the Angola Highway, the old Tunica Road takes off and meanders through dense forest and ravines and comes out near the gates of the Prison. It's like going back in time.
