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though smaller but no less Pilgrimage. Lucky visitors may streams offer trout fishing. Deep-
energetic celebrations are also sample freshly made, sugary sea fishing for grouper, tarpon, or
held in several other Deep nut pralines, sold by vendors. snapper, or by net for the shrimp,
South towns, including can be arranged from Gulf of
Mobile, Alabama. Mexico ports such as Biloxi,
Spring is a fine time to be in Sports & Mississippi, Mobile, Alabama,
Outdoor Activities
Mississippi, especially if you can or Grand Isle, Louisiana. Visitors
time your trip to enjoy the “Gone The towns and cities of the Deep should check with the various
With the Wind”-like re-creations South are not large enough to state fish and game departments
of the Natchez Pilgrimage, a support top-tier professional to see which permits are required.
month-long celebration of the sports teams, but they field
antebellum “Old South.” Many dozens of minor league teams Entertainment
of the city’s historic homes are and hundreds of high-quality
open to the public, and several sports teams of various public The birthplace of jazz and a
pageants and performances and private colleges and melting pot of American music,
take place. universities. New Orleans has the New Orleans is a showcase for all
Summer brings a profusion New Orleans Pelicans basketball types of performance. Local
of outdoor events, and team and the New Orleans news papers such as the Times-
fireworks, bands, and street Saints football team, which plays Picayune or the weekly New
festivals are the norm for in the Superdome, one of the Orleans Magazine carry detailed
community celebrations of world’s largest indoor sports listings of the events and
the July 4 Independence Day arenas. The main events of the activities. A major venue for music
holiday. Numerous county and college sporting seasons are in New Orleans is the historic
state fairs take place in the football and basketball games Preservation Hall, where
countryside in July and August, between regional rivals, including traditonal “Dixieland” jazz may be
as do a number of music Louisiana State University Tigers, heard most nights. A huge range
festivals such as the B.B. King the University of Alabama’s of nightclubs in the tourist-
Home coming Festival in Crimson Tide, and the Rebels dominated French Quarter as well
Indianola, Mississippi, the first of the University of Mississippi. as on Frenchman Street in the
of many blues-themed festivals Baseball season runs from April uptown area offer live musical
that take place in and around to September, football from entertainment. For traditional
the Mississippi Delta. Later in September through January, Cajun music, head to Lafayette
the summer comes the grand and basketball from winter and the roadhouse restaurant,
Mississippi Delta Blues and through mid-spring. Prejean’s, the most reliable of
Heritage Festival, held in Although both fishing and the music venues in the region.
September in Greenville, boating are favored pastimes, Many other cities also host
Mississippi. In October, the fishing is by far the more popular popular musical events. A
historic homes of Natchez and of the two activities. Lake fishing wonderful place to listen to the
Vicksburg are again opened to for bass or crappie is available in blues is Ground Zero Blues Club,
the public during the Fall many state parks, while Arkansas in Clarksdale, Mississippi.
DIRECTORY
Tourist Offices Travel Festivals Alabama
Tel (334) 242-3465.
Alabama Amtrak B.B. King Home coming
Tel (334) 242-4169. Festival Arkansas
∑ alabama.travel Tel (800) 872-7245. Tel (662) 887-4454. Tel (501) 223-6300.
∑ amtrak.com Mardi Gras, New Louisiana
Arkansas Orleans
Tel (800) 628-8725. Greyhound Tel (800) 672-6124. Tel (225) 765-2800.
∑ arkansas.com Mississippi
Tel (800) 231-2222. ∑ neworleansonline.
Louisiana ∑ greyhound.com com Tel (601) 432-2400.
Tel (800) 994-8626. Sports Entertainment
∑ louisianatravel.com River Cruises
Mississippi New Orleans Saints Ground
Tel (504) 731-1700 (tickets).
Tel (601) 359-3297. American ∑ neworleanssaints.com Zero Blues Club
∑ visitmississippi.org Cruise Lines/ Superdome Tel (662) 621-9009.
Natural Hazards Blount Small Tel (504) 587-3663. Prejean’s
Tel (337) 896-3247.
Ship Adventures ∑ superdome.com ∑ prejeans.com
National Hurricane Tel (800) 510-4002.
Center, Miami Departments Preservation Hall
Tel (305) 229-4470. ∑ mississippi of Fish & Game Tel (504) 522-2841.
∑ nhc.noaa.gov rivercruises.com ∑ fws.gov ∑ preservationhall.com

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