Stories about displaced chefs and musician
Katrina-displaced cooks help spread love of Cajun, Creole fare across nation
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After Hurricane Katrina destroyed his New Orleans home and restaurant, Crump traveled to Atlanta, then Daytona Beach, Fla. A chance encounter with a hotel guest who smelled Crump's cooking lured him to Clarksburg [WV], a town of 17,000 in a state he'd barely heard of.
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I found this story about a professional jazz musician turned high school band director rather charming.
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Riddle brought his family home, to the place where he grew up: Southern West Virginia.
They stopped at a Wal-Mart, to buy some necessities. They were inside 10 minutes - long enough for somebody to notice their Louisiana license plate.
"Welcome to West Virginia," said the note they found on their car. "We hope you want to stay."
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"It's not communist. The law doesn't pick on you. I like that it's a free state." —a reader of the Princeton (WV) Times, in response to the Question of the Week, "What do you like most about southern West Virginia?"
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18 May 2008, 01:10 AM
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