#Mississippi lakefront home

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c.1965 Mississippi Lakefront Home With Boathouse $185K

OHU50K Notes   $185,000 One-bedroom, one-bath Mississippi lakefront home with boathouse, dock and boat. The 967-sf home has a metal roof, covered deck overlooking the water, vaulted ceilings, breakfast bar and public water. Heard there’s great fishing! Realtor Comments Check out this Lakefront retreat! Tons of outdoor space for enjoying the lake view. Great fishing available along with a boat…

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When Roxy Music was recording “Street Life” for the 1973 album Stranded, they hung a mic out the window of AIR Studios above Oxford Street, but they didn’t like the results and they ended up mixing in the sounds of a Moroccan market instead. As “Street Life” begins, we hear traffic amid four haunting chords and a shimmering hi-hat rhythm, and then Bryan Ferry belts out that he wishes everyone would leave him alone. He goes out for a walk. “Each verse seems to have its own character,” he later said, “like blocks on a street.” A fan since my youth of early Roxy Music, I still hear that song’s ethereal city vibe when I, too, wish everyone would leave me alone and, like Bryan, hit the streets.

If I go left, heading into what I think of as downtown Echo Park, I glimpse the green folds of the Angeles Crest as I pass Craftsman and Victorian houses and courtyard bungalows. I turn onto Sunset Boulevard, passing barber shops, burger stands, bookstores, and botanicas. I can get my knives sharpened and my shoes repaired, shop for groceries, eat eighty different kinds of food. The streets are full of people of all kinds, even as Echo Park comes twentieth in a walkability ranking of L.A. neighborhoods, according to some website. MacArthur Park, which is more population-dense than parts of Manhattan, ranks higher, as does Hollywood. But here I have the option of avoiding commerce by going three blocks north to the park, where I can walk miles of shaded trails. Or stroll my little residential enclave, where people are sitting on their stoops, a guy is working on his ’68 Camaro, trees are heavy with citrus, softball-size dragon fruits shine redly through a fence. I can walk to Echo Park Lake, due west, entirely through an alleyway, where among overgrown fig trees and sidewalk pulverized to dirt you might think you were in some Mississippi backwater Barry Hannah was describing, but you’re parallel and just behind Sunset. At the lakefront are picnickers, food carts, fishermen creating what my son refers to as “pressure on the lake.” One day I watch a guy and girl furtively produce a pristine white duck from a knapsack and release it. They’ve clearly just bought the thing at a live-poultry shop and are trying to rewild it among the mallards and grebes, but the mission seems also to be a form of courtship.

On these walks, minutes from home, I am certain that Los Angeles, which I moved to from New York twenty years ago, is the most beautiful city in the world (and yes, I have seen the world). But that’s only if I go west or north or south. If I head east, toward downtown, 1.5 miles away, my booster talk ebbs. It’s freeway overpasses, empty lots, and fortress-like buildings, a dead zone.

I should be able to walk to the opera house, Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Broad, the Bradbury Building, or City Hall, to the grand old theaters on Main Street, the jewelry district, Union Station. To Philippe the Original on Alameda, a hundred-year-old deli where undertakers from the nearby mortuaries park their hearses and stop in for a sandwich. To the new Frank Gehry building on Grand, across from my son’s music school. (Late in life, Gehry now seems to believe in design that prioritizes not postmodern showiness but plazas and shade and places for the passerby to sit.) But to get to the pedestrian-friendly world downtown involves several blocks of monolithic residential architecture along freeways, all by the same developer, inward-facing buildings with dark and empty storefronts, bunker parking, and sky bridges. The tenants of these places don’t have to ever step foot on the street. I’ve heard they are mostly USC students, but you don’t see them. The only people I might encounter are unhoused individuals, and those in this particular area often appear to be in severe mental crisis, as they linger beyond buildings that are as obdurate and closed as medieval armories.

Dubbed the Renaissance Collection, these buildings form a plaque that separates the people of Echo Park from downtown L.A. They were built by Geoffrey Palmer, a little man who resembles a ventriloquist’s dummy and is gifted at making enemies. Palmer buys up forlorn and odd plots alongside freeways, where he builds his “Italianate” developments, as Italian as leatherette is leather, but less charming. In 1973, the artist Gordon Matta-Clark purchased random little slices of land around New York City for a conceptual art project he titled Fake Estates. Perhaps the unsavory parcels that Palmer acquires would remain similarly conceptual were it not for the very real fake estates he builds on them. This is his own defense—that he’s building where no one else dares—but he seems to take almost libidinal satisfaction in perching rows of apartment balconies over the 110–101 freeway interchange. The off-white stucco exteriors of his buildings are coated with soot within days of completion. In 2003, he illegally bulldozed the last Victorian of Bunker Hill while building the Orsini, a few blocks from my house. Palmer is vehemently opposed to affordable housing and has spent tens of millions on lawsuits and ballot measures to ensure that he won’t have to build any. He recently settled a class-action suit over systematically keeping tenants’ security deposits. One of Trump’s biggest donors, he has bragged that his company hasn’t paid federal taxes in thirty years. In the fall of 2014, a fire was deliberately started in Palmer’s half-built and wood-framed Da Vinci, a block down from the Orsini. Flames shot higher than many buildings downtown, stretched a city block, melted freeway signs, and cracked one hundred and sixty windows in the iconic John Ferraro Building, headquarters of Water and Power. The consensus among architects, residents, and journalists was that almost anyone could have started the fire, given how many people hate Palmer. City commissioners joked, in a planning meeting, that they sure hoped everyone present had an alibi. The city sued Palmer for the reckless conditions that allowed the blaze to grow so large. The person who started it was caught and sentenced to prison. He supposedly did it for Michael Brown, to protest the police killings of unarmed black men. No one was hurt. The Da Vinci was promptly rebuilt.

“Why is Everything So Ugly?” wondered a recent editorial in n+1. The editors structured their thoughts on the subject around a Situationist-style dérive they take through New York City. They begin by pondering a new condominium tower limply called the Josh, which has been erected in place of a recently demolished hundred-year-old building. The Josh, they tell us, is made of plastic, concrete, and “an obscure wood-like substance”—materials that have been chosen not for quality and beauty but on the basis of global supply-chain availability, a cookie-cutter design review process, and a cost-saving preference for semi-skilled labor. The Josh is already looking shabby at five months old. When it rains, its façade gets “conspicuously . . . wet.” Their dérive continues past more than one Bank of America, alongside a vape shop, and into a theater, where a shitty franchise based on a TV show of a comic book is playing. After the movie, there’s a run-in with blindingly bright LED lights, resulting in a visit to urgent care.

Google reveals that the building the editors are calling the Josh is actually the Greenpoint—located, as you might guess, in Greenpoint, Brooklyn—but the Josh does more work to illustrate certain ideas than the real name might. I think I know eighteen Joshes. No offense to any of them; I too have a common name and would wager the Josh could have been called the Rachel in the blink of an eye. Still, the Josh has a certain sound when isolated as a branding mechanism, with its soft landing into sshh, whether put to service selling wine or machines for living. I chuckled about the Josh. It, or he, made me think of that guy Tom from MySpace, everyone’s first friend. I imagined Tom living at the Josh, enjoying an industrial salad at a particle-board table. But names are merely symptoms. They are not the cause of “the violence of the new ugliness” that the n+1 editors ponder. Branding arises from standardization. If the things that are made are more or less the same, difference itself must be manufactured.

The Situationists first began undertaking their dérives—which means to drift, to walk without a fixed plan—in response to a rail strike. Guy Debord and others tumbled drunkenly through the night, walking or hitchhiking, and found that the new routes they forged promised a change of orientation, a new outlook. In Debord’s autobiographical Panegyric, at a point in his life when he had lost hope in the city and headed for the hills, he regrets that a “flood of destruction, pollution, and falsification had conquered the whole surface of the planet, as well as pouring down nearly to its very depths.” (Had Debord, too, noticed how wet the Josh was looking?) Five years later he shot himself in the heart. It wasn’t just that everything was ugly and the revolution stalled, if not foreclosed. Alcohol had done him in.

I decided, on a recent afternoon, to conduct my own dérive, straight into the morass between my street and downtown. I left the house, took a right, another right, and then a left over the 101 freeway. If this overpass could talk, I thought. It might tell of the many women and the many nights of flinty bargains with men in cars. By daylight, it was empty. I turned left onto Temple Street, passing a hotel that abuts the 101, and a sun-blasted bus stop where my kid was let off in grade school, and from which he began conducting his own dérives. This block of Temple has a bakery, a liquor store, and until recently, D’Bongo Party Supplies, then falls into a post-human stretch: there is a tow yard, a recycling center, a cul de sac against the freeway where there was a tent encampment until it burned, and a huge and empty bus yard. That’s all on one side of the street. On the other is the massive retaining wall of a high school baseball diamond. The reason there is open land here, greenery, even if it’s chemically treated monograss beyond chain-link, is that this was an oil field, and it isn’t safe to put up buildings. (What look like lampposts around the field are actually vents that allow methane gases to escape.)

Beyond the baseball/methane field, I pass our own version of the Josh, but it’s called the Charlie. The Charlie is new. There used to be an auto repair and car wash here that was run by a family. Now there is a narrow eight-story building in “space gray” with a gaggle of red real estate balloons bobbing on the wind. I have driven past at night. The units are dark, while the Charlie’s eight-story “parking podium” glows meanly, prison-bright.

From the Charlie I cross the street toward a new Palmer monstrosity on a ten-acre site that used to be a Bank of America data center. Construction is not yet finished. The invasive palms that have been chosen as Palmer’s signature “lush Mediterranean landscaping” have just been trucked in and still have their fronds gathered into ponytails. Even with their fronds let down, they will provide no shade. There’s a giant piss-elegant fountain but it’s dry. now renting 2 months free + free parking, a big sign says. The name of this new addition to Palmer’s suite of Italianate freeway rentals is the Ferrante. Maybe the name came from his wife, a Parisian who seems a little more cultured than he is. Perhaps she’s a fan of Elena Ferrante’s books. I have no proof. I’m guessing.

We’ve been told for years now that Elena Ferrante is a fiction, a made-up name, like Tom, or the Josh. But someone is of course writing those books. Whoever they are, they’re talented, but the insistence on anonymity is starting to seem a little showy, even a bit tacky, if not as tacky as the Ferrante and its 1,150 units. I pass its blank row of street-level commercial spaces. Palmer won’t even try to rent them out. And apparently there’s no fine for leaving them empty. As an architect explained to me, he doesn’t build that income into his plans. Why should a developer care if there is street life? I turn left and walk under a highway overpass and approach the rangy back edge of our neighborhood CVS. What does CVS stand for? No one seems to know. Everything you might want to buy there is now locked up, and you have to press what feels like a panic button to get access to the shelves.

I cross through the parking lot, past a weird machine with a tower on it, flashing a blue light. This is some kind of automated security apparatus, but I’m not sure how it works. A barefoot boy asks me for a light. I don’t have one, I tell him.

Remember how outraged everyone was to discover that the author JT LeRoy, supposedly an ethereal rent boy/lot lizard, was actually a middle-aged woman? They acted like this was the ultimate con, something ugly and counterfeit masquerading as something genuine and tragic and hot. Meanwhile, Elena Ferrante is purporting to be a middle-aged woman. What if she’s a teen boy turning tricks in parking lots? I think, as I turn out of the lot and go right on Sunset.

I walk toward Palmer’s Orsini, which lines both sides of the street, all of its commercial space dark and empty and locked. There is no one here except one man in rags setting bits of trash on fire on the sidewalk. Is it Palmer’s fault that people are setting things on fire? It’s more complicated than that. But with no street activity, people act out. Or, their actions are starker, and less muted by a variety of people and vibrancies that a healthy street should reflect. At the end of this very long, sterile block is one other person, a young woman. Her arms are covered with injection scars. She seems not to notice me. She’s in a kind of Sisyphean struggle, attempting to push an e-scooter that is not activated, its wheels on lock.

The next day I drive back down this street, heading to pick up my son from music school. I spot the woman who tried to push the scooter. She’s still here, as if this bleak zone were her proving ground. Her shirt is off now, and she is throwing her half-clothed body against the brick exterior of the Orsini. But the building is constructed not to feel her, the street not to see her, and I barely see her myself, because my light is green.

While parts of the designed world might be ugly at any speed, it is only the slowness of traveling on foot that causes true discomfiture, by forcing a walker to behold, worry over, brood upon, those to whom this ugliness shouts loudest.

[kamreadsandrecs]

When Roxy Music was recording “Street Life” for the 1973 album Stranded, they hung a mic out the window of AIR Studios above Oxford Street, but they didn’t like the results and they ended up mixing in the sounds of a Moroccan market instead. As “Street Life” begins, we hear traffic amid four haunting chords and a shimmering hi-hat rhythm, and then Bryan Ferry belts out that he wishes everyone would leave him alone. He goes out for a walk. “Each verse seems to have its own character,” he later said, “like blocks on a street.” A fan since my youth of early Roxy Music, I still hear that song’s ethereal city vibe when I, too, wish everyone would leave me alone and, like Bryan, hit the streets.

If I go left, heading into what I think of as downtown Echo Park, I glimpse the green folds of the Angeles Crest as I pass Craftsman and Victorian houses and courtyard bungalows. I turn onto Sunset Boulevard, passing barber shops, burger stands, bookstores, and botanicas. I can get my knives sharpened and my shoes repaired, shop for groceries, eat eighty different kinds of food. The streets are full of people of all kinds, even as Echo Park comes twentieth in a walkability ranking of L.A. neighborhoods, according to some website. MacArthur Park, which is more population-dense than parts of Manhattan, ranks higher, as does Hollywood. But here I have the option of avoiding commerce by going three blocks north to the park, where I can walk miles of shaded trails. Or stroll my little residential enclave, where people are sitting on their stoops, a guy is working on his ’68 Camaro, trees are heavy with citrus, softball-size dragon fruits shine redly through a fence. I can walk to Echo Park Lake, due west, entirely through an alleyway, where among overgrown fig trees and sidewalk pulverized to dirt you might think you were in some Mississippi backwater Barry Hannah was describing, but you’re parallel and just behind Sunset. At the lakefront are picnickers, food carts, fishermen creating what my son refers to as “pressure on the lake.” One day I watch a guy and girl furtively produce a pristine white duck from a knapsack and release it. They’ve clearly just bought the thing at a live-poultry shop and are trying to rewild it among the mallards and grebes, but the mission seems also to be a form of courtship.

On these walks, minutes from home, I am certain that Los Angeles, which I moved to from New York twenty years ago, is the most beautiful city in the world (and yes, I have seen the world). But that’s only if I go west or north or south. If I head east, toward downtown, 1.5 miles away, my booster talk ebbs. It’s freeway overpasses, empty lots, and fortress-like buildings, a dead zone.

I should be able to walk to the opera house, Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Broad, the Bradbury Building, or City Hall, to the grand old theaters on Main Street, the jewelry district, Union Station. To Philippe the Original on Alameda, a hundred-year-old deli where undertakers from the nearby mortuaries park their hearses and stop in for a sandwich. To the new Frank Gehry building on Grand, across from my son’s music school. (Late in life, Gehry now seems to believe in design that prioritizes not postmodern showiness but plazas and shade and places for the passerby to sit.) But to get to the pedestrian-friendly world downtown involves several blocks of monolithic residential architecture along freeways, all by the same developer, inward-facing buildings with dark and empty storefronts, bunker parking, and sky bridges. The tenants of these places don’t have to ever step foot on the street. I’ve heard they are mostly USC students, but you don’t see them. The only people I might encounter are unhoused individuals, and those in this particular area often appear to be in severe mental crisis, as they linger beyond buildings that are as obdurate and closed as medieval armories.

Dubbed the Renaissance Collection, these buildings form a plaque that separates the people of Echo Park from downtown L.A. They were built by Geoffrey Palmer, a little man who resembles a ventriloquist’s dummy and is gifted at making enemies. Palmer buys up forlorn and odd plots alongside freeways, where he builds his “Italianate” developments, as Italian as leatherette is leather, but less charming. In 1973, the artist Gordon Matta-Clark purchased random little slices of land around New York City for a conceptual art project he titled Fake Estates. Perhaps the unsavory parcels that Palmer acquires would remain similarly conceptual were it not for the very real fake estates he builds on them. This is his own defense—that he’s building where no one else dares—but he seems to take almost libidinal satisfaction in perching rows of apartment balconies over the 110–101 freeway interchange. The off-white stucco exteriors of his buildings are coated with soot within days of completion. In 2003, he illegally bulldozed the last Victorian of Bunker Hill while building the Orsini, a few blocks from my house. Palmer is vehemently opposed to affordable housing and has spent tens of millions on lawsuits and ballot measures to ensure that he won’t have to build any. He recently settled a class-action suit over systematically keeping tenants’ security deposits. One of Trump’s biggest donors, he has bragged that his company hasn’t paid federal taxes in thirty years. In the fall of 2014, a fire was deliberately started in Palmer’s half-built and wood-framed Da Vinci, a block down from the Orsini. Flames shot higher than many buildings downtown, stretched a city block, melted freeway signs, and cracked one hundred and sixty windows in the iconic John Ferraro Building, headquarters of Water and Power. The consensus among architects, residents, and journalists was that almost anyone could have started the fire, given how many people hate Palmer. City commissioners joked, in a planning meeting, that they sure hoped everyone present had an alibi. The city sued Palmer for the reckless conditions that allowed the blaze to grow so large. The person who started it was caught and sentenced to prison. He supposedly did it for Michael Brown, to protest the police killings of unarmed black men. No one was hurt. The Da Vinci was promptly rebuilt.

“Why is Everything So Ugly?” wondered a recent editorial in n+1. The editors structured their thoughts on the subject around a Situationist-style dérive they take through New York City. They begin by pondering a new condominium tower limply called the Josh, which has been erected in place of a recently demolished hundred-year-old building. The Josh, they tell us, is made of plastic, concrete, and “an obscure wood-like substance”—materials that have been chosen not for quality and beauty but on the basis of global supply-chain availability, a cookie-cutter design review process, and a cost-saving preference for semi-skilled labor. The Josh is already looking shabby at five months old. When it rains, its façade gets “conspicuously . . . wet.” Their dérive continues past more than one Bank of America, alongside a vape shop, and into a theater, where a shitty franchise based on a TV show of a comic book is playing. After the movie, there’s a run-in with blindingly bright LED lights, resulting in a visit to urgent care.

Google reveals that the building the editors are calling the Josh is actually the Greenpoint—located, as you might guess, in Greenpoint, Brooklyn—but the Josh does more work to illustrate certain ideas than the real name might. I think I know eighteen Joshes. No offense to any of them; I too have a common name and would wager the Josh could have been called the Rachel in the blink of an eye. Still, the Josh has a certain sound when isolated as a branding mechanism, with its soft landing into sshh, whether put to service selling wine or machines for living. I chuckled about the Josh. It, or he, made me think of that guy Tom from MySpace, everyone’s first friend. I imagined Tom living at the Josh, enjoying an industrial salad at a particle-board table. But names are merely symptoms. They are not the cause of “the violence of the new ugliness” that the n+1 editors ponder. Branding arises from standardization. If the things that are made are more or less the same, difference itself must be manufactured.

The Situationists first began undertaking their dérives—which means to drift, to walk without a fixed plan—in response to a rail strike. Guy Debord and others tumbled drunkenly through the night, walking or hitchhiking, and found that the new routes they forged promised a change of orientation, a new outlook. In Debord’s autobiographical Panegyric, at a point in his life when he had lost hope in the city and headed for the hills, he regrets that a “flood of destruction, pollution, and falsification had conquered the whole surface of the planet, as well as pouring down nearly to its very depths.” (Had Debord, too, noticed how wet the Josh was looking?) Five years later he shot himself in the heart. It wasn’t just that everything was ugly and the revolution stalled, if not foreclosed. Alcohol had done him in.

I decided, on a recent afternoon, to conduct my own dérive, straight into the morass between my street and downtown. I left the house, took a right, another right, and then a left over the 101 freeway. If this overpass could talk, I thought. It might tell of the many women and the many nights of flinty bargains with men in cars. By daylight, it was empty. I turned left onto Temple Street, passing a hotel that abuts the 101, and a sun-blasted bus stop where my kid was let off in grade school, and from which he began conducting his own dérives. This block of Temple has a bakery, a liquor store, and until recently, D’Bongo Party Supplies, then falls into a post-human stretch: there is a tow yard, a recycling center, a cul de sac against the freeway where there was a tent encampment until it burned, and a huge and empty bus yard. That’s all on one side of the street. On the other is the massive retaining wall of a high school baseball diamond. The reason there is open land here, greenery, even if it’s chemically treated monograss beyond chain-link, is that this was an oil field, and it isn’t safe to put up buildings. (What look like lampposts around the field are actually vents that allow methane gases to escape.)

Beyond the baseball/methane field, I pass our own version of the Josh, but it’s called the Charlie. The Charlie is new. There used to be an auto repair and car wash here that was run by a family. Now there is a narrow eight-story building in “space gray” with a gaggle of red real estate balloons bobbing on the wind. I have driven past at night. The units are dark, while the Charlie’s eight-story “parking podium” glows meanly, prison-bright.

From the Charlie I cross the street toward a new Palmer monstrosity on a ten-acre site that used to be a Bank of America data center. Construction is not yet finished. The invasive palms that have been chosen as Palmer’s signature “lush Mediterranean landscaping” have just been trucked in and still have their fronds gathered into ponytails. Even with their fronds let down, they will provide no shade. There’s a giant piss-elegant fountain but it’s dry. now renting 2 months free + free parking, a big sign says. The name of this new addition to Palmer’s suite of Italianate freeway rentals is the Ferrante. Maybe the name came from his wife, a Parisian who seems a little more cultured than he is. Perhaps she’s a fan of Elena Ferrante’s books. I have no proof. I’m guessing.

We’ve been told for years now that Elena Ferrante is a fiction, a made-up name, like Tom, or the Josh. But someone is of course writing those books. Whoever they are, they’re talented, but the insistence on anonymity is starting to seem a little showy, even a bit tacky, if not as tacky as the Ferrante and its 1,150 units. I pass its blank row of street-level commercial spaces. Palmer won’t even try to rent them out. And apparently there’s no fine for leaving them empty. As an architect explained to me, he doesn’t build that income into his plans. Why should a developer care if there is street life? I turn left and walk under a highway overpass and approach the rangy back edge of our neighborhood CVS. What does CVS stand for? No one seems to know. Everything you might want to buy there is now locked up, and you have to press what feels like a panic button to get access to the shelves.

I cross through the parking lot, past a weird machine with a tower on it, flashing a blue light. This is some kind of automated security apparatus, but I’m not sure how it works. A barefoot boy asks me for a light. I don’t have one, I tell him.

Remember how outraged everyone was to discover that the author JT LeRoy, supposedly an ethereal rent boy/lot lizard, was actually a middle-aged woman? They acted like this was the ultimate con, something ugly and counterfeit masquerading as something genuine and tragic and hot. Meanwhile, Elena Ferrante is purporting to be a middle-aged woman. What if she’s a teen boy turning tricks in parking lots? I think, as I turn out of the lot and go right on Sunset.

I walk toward Palmer’s Orsini, which lines both sides of the street, all of its commercial space dark and empty and locked. There is no one here except one man in rags setting bits of trash on fire on the sidewalk. Is it Palmer’s fault that people are setting things on fire? It’s more complicated than that. But with no street activity, people act out. Or, their actions are starker, and less muted by a variety of people and vibrancies that a healthy street should reflect. At the end of this very long, sterile block is one other person, a young woman. Her arms are covered with injection scars. She seems not to notice me. She’s in a kind of Sisyphean struggle, attempting to push an e-scooter that is not activated, its wheels on lock.

The next day I drive back down this street, heading to pick up my son from music school. I spot the woman who tried to push the scooter. She’s still here, as if this bleak zone were her proving ground. Her shirt is off now, and she is throwing her half-clothed body against the brick exterior of the Orsini. But the building is constructed not to feel her, the street not to see her, and I barely see her myself, because my light is green.

While parts of the designed world might be ugly at any speed, it is only the slowness of traveling on foot that causes true discomfiture, by forcing a walker to behold, worry over, brood upon, those to whom this ugliness shouts loudest.

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572 Sq Ft Move-In Ready Lakeside Home in Mississippi $119k

572 Sq Ft Move-In Ready Lakeside Home in Mississippi $119k

Move in ready, furnished Lake Eddins retreat on the water! Lake Eddins is a fishing only lake known for it’s trophy Bass, Crappie, Bream and Catfish. 372 Lake Eddins 1638, Pachuta, MS, 39347 $119,000 1 bed 1 bath 572 sq ft 0.71 acre lot Build date 1989 Google Map Property Listing Realtor: Joy McClinthen, ABR Related: 744 Sq Ft Updated Home w/ Lake Martin Access in Eclectic AL About This 572 Sq…

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Situated in the core of St. Louis, this zoo is perceived as a pioneer in creature exploration and preservation and is certified by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums. It additionally offers a section for nothing out of pocket aside from exceptional displays! The St. Louis Zoological Park has been around since the time the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair and the securing of a Smithsonian Institution: the Flight Cage. Presently, you can see a wide assortment of extended displays: the Big Cat Country and Jungle of the Apes, to give some examples. In case you're feeling unconventional, there is likewise the Butterfly House or the Fragile Forest. Take a merry go round ride at the Mary Ann Lee Conservation Carousel, which highlights hand-cut wooden creatures that speak to real imperiled species. Regardless of whether you come to see the creatures or become familiar with creature protection, this zoo has a lot of exercises that will at the same time engage and instruct you. 

Missouri Botanical Gardens 

Once in awhile a city can get overpowering, and it's critical to have the option to withdraw into the calm of nature. The Missouri Botanical Gardens are a cut of characteristic heaven and furthermore one of the most established herbal foundations in the US, situated in St. Louis and established in 1859 by altruist Henry Shaw. This National Historic Landmark is available to people, in general, is as yet an inside for natural examination and science training! Bring some agreeable shoes and be set up to walk in the light of the fact that these nurseries range 79 sections of land and incorporate a wide range of and interesting segments. Visit the spearheading town, an Osage camp, and Henry Shaw's unique state home. Or on the other hand, unwind at Seiwa-en, the biggest Japanese nursery in North America! It is likewise a spot for yearly social celebrations, for example, the Chinese Culture Days or Japanese Festival. Kick back at these or please your own whenever to appreciate the harmony and calm nature gives. 

National World War I Museum 

Situated in Kansas City, Missouri, The National World War I Museum and Memorial has been available to people in general since 1926, and recounts to the narrative of WWI and relating occasions traversing from before 1914 to the 1919 Paris Peace Conference. Indeed, even the passage shows you something: as you stroll over the glass connect, beneath you will see a field of 9,000 red poppies, every one representing 1,000 soldier passings from the War. the first structure, but instead one constructed following raising support endeavors to change the gallery and make it the authority WWI exhibition hall in the US. Presently, the Main Gallery holds antiques including a Renault FT Tank, a Ford Model T Ambulance, and purposeful publicity banners. While a great many people concentrate more on WWII, it's acceptable to follow history and find out about the principal Great War that made nature prompting WWII. You'll be happy you visited. 

Entryway Arch 

St. Louis, Missouri is home to the world's tallest curve (630 feet tall!), the Gateway Arch. Situated on the west bank of the Mississippi River, this altered, weighted catenary curve made of treated steel is the focal point of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial and is a renowned image of the city of St. Louis. Go for a stroll along the Mississippi and make a trip to appreciate this landmark to the U.S. toward the west development, open to general society since 1967. In case you're sufficiently valiant, take the cable car to the top for some marvelous perspectives coming to up to 30 miles. Or on the other hand, remain on the ground floor at the guest place to look at the Museum of Westward Expansion and the various shows housed there. If you want more information about it. For allegiant airlines reservations visit the official site.

 The pool of the Ozarks 

Situated in the northern piece of the Ozark Mountains in focal Missouri, The Lake of the Ozarks is an enormous store made by the impoundment of the Osage River and its tributaries. The moderate, sluggish bends of the lake have given it the name "The Magic Dragon" and it was one of the biggest man-made lakes when it was made in 1931, before long turning into an excursion goal due to its beautiful setting and watersports attractions. Lease a getaway home on the lake and investigate the mountains – visit the Lake of the Ozarks State Park, or make an appearance at Party Cove in case you're in the mind-set for a decent time. You can likewise unwind in style at the Lodge of Four Seasons and play a couple of rounds of golf even – it is one of the Midwest's most testing courses. Appreciate a lakefront excursion, jump on a vessel, and put your feet up in this delightful condition. Ha Tonka State Park Situated along the Niangua arm of the Lake of the Ozarks, Ha Tonka State Park ranges more than 3,000 sections of land and contains the remains of Ha Tonka, a manor who worked after sixteenth-century European mansions. The stronghold was worked in the mid-1900s and named "ha tonka" after the normal springs on the property, an expression which is said to signify "grinning waters". 

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The World's Largest Natural Amphitheater

Evansville, Indiana lies along the southernmost part of the state in the U.S. It is located south of Columbus in the northeast corner of the state. In the 2020 census, it was found to have a population of 439. Evansville is actually the fourth-largest city in a 500 mile (800 km) radius of Indiana. The city is considered to be the economic center of eastern Indiana. The surrounding areas are considered as the natural border between the Midwest and the Mississippi river.

Although the city is known for its industrial importance, the real estate values have risen because of an influx of well-educated people who commute to nearby cities for jobs. Evansville has promoted a development plan that involves building affordable housing and supporting the arts. There has been an increase in the number of people moving into Evansville, because the surrounding area has been built up with homes and businesses built along the riverfront and downtown streets. This has created more residential space for the people living in Evansville and downtown areas.

In the northwest corner of Evansville is the reservation land for the Fort Evans Army Depot, which is located on the reservation lands that were obtained by settlers and former military men before the war. Fort Evans was one of America's largest military depots during the Civil War. Many of its structures remain to this day, serving as reminders of what happened during the war.

The City of Evansville is strategically located near the Indiana Iowa border. This proximity helped to develop the local economy, attract more businesses, and attract a new residential population, which contributed to the growing economy of Evansville. With this in mind, many business and civic leaders in Evansville have encouraged the growth of riverfront properties, which allow for easy movement of goods, capital investment for businesses and development of recreational opportunities. To this end, the Evansville Convention and Visitors Bureau have promoted riverboat cruises and trips to the different Indiana rivers.

The first settlement of Evansville occurred near the present-day Cincinnati, Ohio. This was a result of the fortifications constructed at what is now Evansville City park. The fort was constructed by the US Army during the early nineteenth century and later was replaced by a National Park. Today, you can find Covington Palace and the historic Thomas Store located near the river.

One of the most important places in Evansville to visit is the historic Old National Bank Building, which was destroyed during the destruction of World War II. However, the ruins of this building are being renovated and the hope is that it will be restored to its prior function. In addition to the bank building, another notable structure in downtown Evansville is the old national bank building which was constructed in 1900. Although this building was designed as a structure to contain the bank's teller desks, it is today considered a place for outdoor recreation. Other notable buildings in downtown Evansville include The Indiana Historical Society Museum, The Evansville Times, and the Historic Evansville Opera House.

Outdoor enthusiasts will not want to miss the downtown area for the Hoosier Heritage Trail, which begins in downtown Vanderburgh County and extends south to the southern edge of downtown Evansville. This trail is one of several planned projects in the area that will connect the county with the rest of Indiana, by means of a hiking trail. Other notable sites include the Indiana State Capitol, The Indiana Historical Society Museum, Evansville's downtown lakefront area, historic John Hancock House, The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in downtown Evansville, and the American Museum of History in downtown Indianapolis. All of these attractions make Evansville an interesting place to visit, no matter what time of year you visit.

Regardless of what you are looking for when it comes to Indiana attractions, Evansville certainly has something that will appeal to you. You can find many world war ii memorabilia in and around the city and there is even a small museum dedicated to the history of Evansville and the Indiana soldiers who fought in this world war ii. No matter if you are looking for limestone caves, or river tours, or boat tours; there is sure to be something that appeals to you in Evansville. If you are looking for something completely different, then you should check out the caves of Georgetown, which were discovered by explorers in the nineteen hundreds. This unique site is considered one of the country's largest discovered caves.

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Explore the City of Milwaukee With A Night On the Town

Milwaukee, in the state of Wisconsin in the United States, on Lake Michigan, is a rich and diverse city. Known for its thriving brewing industry, it is famous for its beer, museums, and the Harley-Davidson museum. Located on the riverfront, near downtown, lies the Milwaukee Public Museum, which displays an array of classic motorcycles, such as one of Elvis Presley's.

Along with the Harley Davidson museum is the Menominee River State Park, one of the most visited tourist sites in Wisconsin. Its location near Milwaukee offers easy access to the Great Lakes region. Visiting the site can be enjoyed by taking in the panoramic views of Lake Michigan, downtown Milwaukee, and the Mississippi River. Among the park's activities are boating, canoeing, hiking, fishing, and rafting.

If you're in town visiting family or friends, there's no doubt that the City of Milwaukee will have something for everyone. If you are looking for a relaxing and peaceful retreat, there is the Eau Claire, a quiet and peaceful lakefront town nestled between rolling hills, ideal for those who love to take long walks and read books.

For shopping and dining, look no further than the city of Milwaukee Wi, which offers everything from casual to formal dining. If you're looking for something different, there are numerous bars and clubs in the downtown area.

If you're looking to shop for gifts for people close to home, there are the Marquette Shopping Center, which is located near the city of Milwaukee, and is the site of the Marquette County courthouse. Marquette, as it's known locally, has some of the finest shopping around, as well as plenty of activities for those interested in cultural history and art.

If you're looking for a place to relax, the Marquette Country Club is an excellent choice. There are tennis courts, pools, and other fun and games to be enjoyed on your own time.

In addition to the many attractions located within the city itself, there are many options to enjoy on your trip outside. The Marquette National Forest gives visitors many hours of outdoor adventure, with miles of hiking trails, fishing opportunities, and wildlife watching.

Other cities that you may want to consider are Bay View Estates, Oak Creek, Kenosha, Ashwaubenon, and Waukesha. These cities boast great entertainment venues as well, and are easily accessible by public transportation.

There are even more options for shopping, if you choose to drive in the Milwaukee area, as the City of Milwaukee Wi is just one stop away from the downtown area, the Marquette Shopping Center, and the downtown areas of Kenosha, Ashwaubenon, and Waukesha. The Wisconsin Dells, which is an amusement park, is just a short distance from Milwaukee, and has several attractions available for those wishing to stay at a luxurious resort.

Of course, the City of Milwaukee is a great place to visit all by yourself. It is close to the many other major attractions, and cities of Wisconsin, and provides easy access to many of the attractions of the rest of the state, as well.

There is even a small airport nearby, so you can travel to other parts of the state easily, or as part of a group. With a number of tour buses available, including a limo, you can see the sights and sounds of the different areas of the state in one convenient, affordable package.

The WI is also home to a number of restaurants, shops, clubs, and attractions, so you can see the sights from all over, including the Riverwest, downtown Milwaukee, and the City of Menominee Falls. You'll also find plenty of shopping, fishing, and activities for the kids when visiting the Milwaukee wi.

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Freewheelin' Zégut, épisode 1 : Chicago, la ville des chess et des Blues Brothers

C’est sur la Mother Road, la Route 66, que nous suivons l’animateur radio et journaliste rock traverser les États-Unis, de Windy City à Los Angeles, en suivant les étapes du célèbre tube composé en 1946 par Bobby Troup.

La mémoire collective connaît la mythique Route 66, en fredonnant “(Get Your Kicks On) Route 66”, en version originale, Nat King Cole, ou rock’n’roll, avec Chuck Berry ou The Rolling Stones, ou celle, sautillante, de Depeche Mode.

Chicago to L.A., je suis en face de l’institut d’Art de Chicago, là où se trouve le panneau “Historic Illinois US Route 66 Begin”. Avant le départ en direction du Pier de Santa Monica à plus de 3 600 kilomètres, je vais passer mes derniers instants posés à Lakefront Trail en face la magnifique skyline architecturale de “Windy City”, la ville des conditions météorologiques extrêmes, jusqu’à –40° C venus du pôle Nord cet hiver. Entre le ressac du lac Michigan et les cris des mouettes, j’entends les rafales des Tommy Gun’s du South Side régler leurs comptes au clan irlandais de Bugs Moran, sacrée Saint-Valentin ! Al Capone, fringué flamboyant à bord de sa Cadillac Town Sedan, est poursuivi par Eliot Ness et ses “Untouchables”, remember Les Incorruptibles avec Robert Stack, série télévisée en noir et blanc diffusée en France à partir de 1964 sur la RTF, et puis bien plus tard le film tourné à Chicago par Brian De Palma en 1987 avec Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, Robert De Niro ou encore Andy Garcia.

J’entends également des pneus crisser du côté du East 95th Street Bridge, mais bien sûr, Elwood J. Blues (Aykroyd), Jake E Blues (Belushi), The Blues Brothers en dérapage tout juste contrôlé, nous font découvrir Chicago, le blues, le rhythm’n’blues, se succèdent à l’écran quelques figures mémorables, John Lee Hooker, James Brown, Aretha Franklin, et puis le rayonnant Ray Charles et son Ray’s Music Store sur South Prairie Avenue et East 47th Street.

Pendant qu’Harrison Ford court dans les rues de Chicago comme un “fugitif”, Ferris Bueller danse sur Lincoln Avenue, Leonard et Phil Chess enregistrent dans leurs studios Howlin’ Wolf, Buddy Guy joue dans son club le Buddy Guy’s Legends au 700 S Wabash Avenue. Comme le disait Willie Dixon : “Le blues, c’est les racines, tout le reste, ce sont les fleurs.” Des histoires sur le blues, il y en a des célèbres et des presque anonymes dans Feel Like Going Home de Peter Guralnick, et plus récemment dans Blues Power, une histoire parallèle du blues, de Stéphane Deschamps.

Attaqué par des oiseaux qui en veulent à mon burger, je me débats tout en regardant l’eau dans laquelle on peut dorénavant se baigner. Ce n’était pas le cas quand la Chicago River déversait dans le lac Michigan rejets industriels, carcasses et tripailles d’animaux venus des abattoirs. Avec cette pollution, les odeurs nauséabondes, la fièvre typhoïde et le choléra faisaient partie du quotidien. Les ingénieurs américains imaginèrent un système d’écluses pour inverser le sens de la Chicago River, direction la Mississippi River là où les alligators sont depuis beaucoup plus gros. J’ai écrit ces quelques lignes en écoutant This Land, l’épatant nouvel album de Gary Clark Jr., je vais le mettre dans ma playlist pour la route, sur ma route.

La playlist Rolling’ ByZegut, à écouter ici ou sur Soundsgood :

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Barry weakens, but US officials warn of heavy rains, floods, tornadoes

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Barry weakens, but US officials warn of heavy rains, floods, tornadoes

A couple walks their bikes through a flooded street after major storm Barry came ashore in Mandeville, Louisiana on July 14, 2019

Barry weakened further on Sunday as the storm churned across the US state of Louisiana, bringing along heavy rains and the possibility of flooding and tornadoes.

There have been no reported deaths so far in Louisiana or neighboring states from Barry, which had briefly become the first hurricane of the Atlantic season before the National Hurricane Center downgraded it to a tropical storm and then a tropical depression.

Still, as the storm moved inland on a northern track, it packed a serious punch.

Louisianans kept a wary eye on rivers and canals badly swollen by the torrential rainfall, following an extraordinarily wet season farther up the Mississippi River.

This is “the wettest year we’ve had since 1895,” Major General Richard Kaiser, who heads the Mississippi River Commission, said on Fox News.

He said the broad river is “the highest it’s been for a long time”—just below flood stage.

Bands of heavy rain continued to lash New Orleans, the state’s biggest city, but its airport was able to resume normal service after canceling all flights on Saturday.

Fears that the levee system protecting New Orleans could be compromised eased.

Mayor LaToya Cantrell, who a day earlier had urged residents not to be complacent, said in a news conference Sunday that “we absolutely made it through the storm. We are lucky; we were spared.”

A satellite image obtained from NOAA/RAMMB, shows major storm Barry in the Gulf of Mexico, on July 14, 2019

Dangers remain

As of 4:00 pm Sunday (2100 GMT), the storm’s maximum sustained winds had dropped to 35 miles (55 kilometers) per hour. It was located north-northeast of Shreveport in western Louisiana, moving towards Arkansas, the National Hurricane Center said.

“Further weakening is expected as the center moves farther inland, and Barry is forecast to degenerate into a remnant low pressure system by Monday night,” the NHC said.

US Senator Bill Cassidy said of the storm on Fox News: “We have seen worse.”

Evacuation orders had already been lifted in several locales including Plaquemines Parish, south of New Orleans, where up to 10,000 residents had been under orders to leave.

But on Sunday, National Guard members were still laying down sand-filled barriers in a bid to contain flooding after “severely high water” overtopped levees in the Plaquemines town of Myrtle Grove, according to parish information officer Jade Duplessis.

Pete Gaynor, acting administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, told Fox that “there are still life-threatening conditions.”

“The rain is the threat,” he added, noting that floodwaters farther up the engorged Mississippi will be moving south in coming days.

Many coastal areas remained on alert.

Residents remove a downed tree from a road in Morgan City, Louisiana

Tornadoes were possible in parts of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas and Tennessee, the NHC said.

Rainfall estimates lowered further to between three and five inches (8 to 13 centimeters) over south-central Louisiana but rivers and canals are already near capacity.

Across southern Louisiana, Barry’s heavy winds scattered tree branches and knocked down power lines, leaving an estimated hundred thousand people without electricity. Reporters saw localized flooding and badly swollen waterways.

Memories of Katrina

The eye of the storm made landfall Saturday at tiny Intracoastal City.

Rivers overtopped their levees in several locations, including part of coastal Terrebonne Parish.

The Atchafalaya River swallowed a waterfront pedestrian promenade in Morgan City.

For many, the storm revived unpleasant memories of Hurricane Katrina.

While thousands of Louisianans fled for safety as the storm approached, others hunkered down to ride it out, sometimes defying mandatory evacuation orders.

Major storm Barry left a parking lot flooded in Berwick, Louisiana

On the huge Lake Pontchartrain’s southern shore in northern New Orleans, 72-year-old retired postal worker Mike Pisciotta shrugged off Barry’s local effects as he stood on the lake’s levee.

“It hasn’t really been anything,” he said, while acknowledging that other areas were harder hit. “I guess we are lucky.”

On Pontchartrain’s northern edge, 61-year-old Gerard Braud, a communications consultant, said there was five feet (1.5 meters) of water under his elevated lakefront home.

“It extended back in some places, five, six, seven blocks from the lake,” he said, adding, “Water levels are the biggest threat in a weak storm like this.”

Not far away, Michael Forbes, 61, a prosecuting attorney, said lake levels were far higher than normal due to wind blowing water in from the Gulf and Mississippi River water being channeled into the lake to ease flood pressure.

“People are used to it, and they’re scared of it, too,” he said. “Every year it’s a worry.”

In 2005, Katrina—the costliest and deadliest hurricane in recent US history—submerged about 80 percent of New Orleans after the city’s levee system failed, causing about 1,800 deaths and more than $150 billion in damage.

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Lower the Drawbridge: This Week’s Most Popular Home Is a Castle in Michigan

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Decades ago, Michigan homebuilder Jorma Lankinen built his own royal retreat. Now, over 30 years later, his custom-built castle rules over the land as the most popular home on realtor.com® this week.

Lankinen says he’s enjoyed “the whole uniqueness of the building,” but he’s ready for a new project. While his creation isn’t cheap, it will allow you to live like royalty on the state’s Upper Peninsula for $1.5 million.

This week’s runner-up is a fascinating, historic French-Gothic home in the unlikely location of Mississippi. Built in 1857, Cedarhurst sits on 10 acres and looks as if it would make an ideal bed and breakfast or event venue.

Other notable abodes include the continued presence of  Shaquille O’Neal‘s lakefront spread in Florida, a divine historic home in Southern California, and a $14.9 million replica of Mount Vernon in Dallas.

We can’t tell a lie! All of this week’s most popular homes are pretty darn cool. Scroll on down for the full look…

10. 432 S East St, Morenci, MI

Price: $120,000 Why it’s here: Cute curb appeal down near the border with Ohio! This two-story, four-bedroom home from 1900 beckons buyers with a gorgeous covered porch. Inside, you’ll find a farm-style kitchen and a partially finished basement. Because the home is so affordable, we’ll guess the next buyer will have the budget to fully finish the basement. 

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9. 29 Oakland St, Newburyport, MA 

Price: $459,900 Why it’s here: Dating back to 1800, this renovated Cape Cod has vintage charm. It’s petite, with 1,208 square feet of living space, but includes a two-floor barn or garage that could be converted into additional living space. Outside, there’s a fenced-in backyard and large deck with a hot tub, perfect for relaxing after a day spent at the beach in northern Massachusetts.

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8. 9927 Giffin Ct, Windermere, FL

Price: $28,000,000 Why it’s here: Curious folks can’t avert their gaze from Shaquille O’Neal’s lakefront pad. The basketball superstar’s home has made our most popular list for three weeks running. It’s no wonder. Shaq-apulco has everything you’d expect from the 7-foot-tall legend, and more. Much more…

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7. 319 Bowline Ct, Severna Park, MD

Price: $1,800,000 Why it’s here: Welcome to your summer retreat! Nearly every room offers a water view of the Magothy River flowing into Chesapeake Bay. There’s a large deck with screened-in porch, and a private pier with 115 feet of water frontage, plus a boat lift and boat slips. Inside the four-bedroom home, there’s a gourmet kitchen, two offices, and a rec room with wet bar.

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6. 1188 Hillcrest Ave, Pasadena, CA

Price: $6,300,000 Why it’s here: A historic landmark, the Cordelia Culbertson House is a Craftsman designed by prominent Pasadena architect brothers Charles and Henry Greene in 1911. Along with a U-shaped floor plan and tiled roof, there’s a glorious courtyard garden complete with terraces, patios, trees, and flowering plants. The manse also includes a grand living room, large formal dining room, garden-view sitting room, and a “baronial ballroom” for large parties and gatherings.

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5. 4009 W Lawther Dr, Dallas, TX 

Price: $14,900,000 Why it’s here: We cannot tell a lie! There’s a replica of George Washington’s home, Mount Vernon, in the Big D. The eye-popping mansion on 10 acres has been totally renovated, and includes elevator access to three levels, five bedrooms, a two-story guest house, four-lane bowling center, and 16-car auto facility.

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4. 7510 Roswell Rd, Henrico, VA

Price: $189,900 Why it’s here: Talk about a wrinkle in time. This throwback is a perfectly preserved three-bedroom ranch-style home from 1955. You’ll find hardwood floors throughout, plus a kitchen with original cabinets, yellow Formica counters, and doublewide stove. A large screened porch opens to a spacious yard with mature trees, perfect for pets and gardening. 

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3. 2111 N Rodeo Gulch Rd, Soquel, CA 

Price: $1,495,000 Why it’s here: About 75 miles south of San Francisco, this two-acre spread offers a welcome respite from the rest of the Bay Area. Gated and private, the home features skylights, separate dining and family rooms, and multiple decks. Plus there’s a yard filled with drought-tolerant plants. Best of all? The location is five minutes to town and the beach.

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2. 490 E Salem Ave E, Holly Springs, MS 

Price: $272,000 Why it’s here: If this historic brick manor from 1857 didn’t come with its own moniker, we’d be disappointed. Known as Cedarhurst, the French Gothic-style antebellum abode on 10 acres boasts five beds, three baths, and a mother-in-law wing complete with bath and kitchen, making it an ideal property for a bed and breakfast or wedding venue.

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1. 8 Marquette Dr, Marquette, MI 

Price: $1,500,000 Why it’s here: Hear ye, hear ye, all those with royal aspirations. This is one cool castle. The 15th-century-style facade is festooned with turrets and flags and gives way to a modern interior. Designed and built by the owner, general contractor Jorma Lankinen, the layout includes four bedrooms, 3.5 baths, and 5,546 square feet. 

Fit for a king, the spread includes a large living room with floor-to-ceiling brick fireplace, casual and formal dining areas, hand-painted murals created by a local artist, and a well-appointed kitchen. The master suite offers a private deck, plus there’s an office, a home theater with a bar, and a sauna.

Asked why he built the magnificent palace, Lankinen said, “Because I could. It’s my personal home. I’m a builder. I’ve been building homes for 45 years already. I just wanted to build something unique.” Mission totally accomplished!

The home builder says he’s ready to move on to his next project and create another custom-built home. Can he top a castle?

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Toronto’s largest suburb, Mississauga is Canada’s sixth most populated city.

It sits to the west of Toronto on the shores of Lake Ontario, spanning for over 280 square kilometers. Although Canterauga was only established as a city in 1974, it dates back to the 1600s when European settlers arrived. It later became a town, followed by its status as the city, but due to its history, it is home to many historic sites. It is also home to Lester B. Pearson International Airport, which is the largest and busiest aviation hub in Canada. Today Mississauga is still growing and is fast becoming a major business center. It also has a thriving arts community, shopping centers, recreational areas, and quaint villages. Discover the best to do in Mississippi.

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1. Explore a historic village

Port Credit is a village that sits right along the shoreline of Lake Ontario. It is a lovely village dating from 1720, with a core of heritage reserve.

Often referred to as the 'Lake Side Village, Credit Harbor has the old town atmosphere with beautiful architecture, lovely parks and a marina by the lake. It also boasts over 25 kilometers of walkways and trails.

The marina is a top-class marina that can dock up to 45 feet in length. It also hosts the Port Boat Domestic Boat Exhibition and the Riverside Festival.

2. Visit a mansion

Adamson's real estate is actually in Port Credit. It was built as a private home and farmland in 1809, but today it is open to the public. The main building on the estate is a lovely Flemish architecture house. There is also an ancient barn, as well as a pet cemetery.

Another great feature of the property is its eastern white pine, which has been on the property ever since it was built.

3. Go for a long walk

The Waterfront Trail extends from Cornwall all the way to Niagara-on-the-lake, passing through Mississauga along the way. In total, the trail is over 740 kilometers long. The section of the trail that runs through Mississauga sits along the lakefront in Port Credit. It passes through both residential and commercial areas.

A trail is a great place for walking, cycling, skateboarding, and inline skating. If you have the time, you can head east along the trail into Toronto or west to Oakville.

4. Wander around Streetsville

This quaint neighborhood keeps its small-town charm, what with its historic buildings and cityscape. Streetsville has a tight-knit community, though visitors are always welcomed. The area is known for its festivals, which include the Bread and Honey Festival in June, a Canada Day celebration on July 1st and December’s Santa Claus Parade.

Wandering along the streets of Streetsville is a great way to spend an afternoon. There are numerous boutiques, family-run restaurants, local shops and impressive houses just waiting to be found.

5. Have fun at an arcade

Playdium is a massive entertainment area, home to an entertainment area and other attractions. It is situated on 11 acres of land right in Mississauga’s city center. The indoor area at Playdium covers more than 12,000 square meters of fun including a massive entertainment area, simulation rides, laser mazes, and a few restaurants.

The best way to enjoy arcade is to buy an unlimited two-hour or four-hour playing card. There are also family packages available. Tickets for outdoor activities are separate.

6. Defy the law of gravity

iFly is a vertical tube with a diameter of a cylinder over four meters in diameter, located nearly 14 meters above the ground. Come here and fly in the tube, defying gravity. The air passes below you at 175 km per hour, lifting you off the ground. This will then give you the feeling as if you are skydiving.

iFly is extremely safe and great for the whole family. Feel what it is like to free fall from a plane without being more than two meters off the ground.

7. Look at art

If you are an art lover, be sure to check out the Canterauga Art Gallery (AGM). The gallery opened in 1987 and is divided into four gallery spaces.

There are year-round exhibitions at the art gallery, as well as a permanent collection of art galleries from national and regional artists. There are more than 500 works of art in its collection.

The gallery also hosts events, like lectures, workshops, and live performances. It also holds regular yoga classes and children’s art classes.

8. Play a round of golf

There are two main golf courses in Mississippi; BraeBen Golf Course and Lakeview Golf Course. The Braeden Golf Course features a 9-hole and championship 18-hole course, while Lakeview Golf Course is an 18-hole course.

Braeden Golf Course is a 72 par course with 18 challenging holes. The course has a total of 6,415 yards through an impressive landscape. Its 9-hole course is great for beginners.

Lakeview Golf Course has been open since 1907 and is one of the finest courses in Ontario. It has an 18-hole championship course that has twice hosted the Canadian Open.

9. Shop in one of the country’s largest malls

Square One Shopping Mall is Ontario's largest shopping mall, and the second-largest in Canada. It has over 160,000 square meters of retail space and over 360 shops and services.

The massive shopping center is located in Downtown Mississippi and is the station of the city's main bus network. It is also accessible by Highway. There are five anchor shops in the mall as well as 13 coffee shops, two supermarkets and about 65 places to eat and drink. This is in addition to its plethora of shops and services.

10. Enjoy an elegant meal

Dishes are expertly cooked and presented, with only the finest ingredients being used. This is an award-winning restaurant with not only great food but also a great wine list.

More ideals for you: Top 10 things to do in Naha

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Barry Drenches Gulf Coast, But Initially Spares New Orleans

Weakened but still potent, Barry inundated the Gulf Coast but appeared unlikely to deluge New Orleans as it continued its slow advance.

Still, Gov. John Bel Edwards on Saturday night urged residents across south Louisiana to stay "vigilant," warning that Barry could still cause disastrous flooding across a wide stretch of the Gulf Coast overnight.

Barry Makes Louisiana Landfall; Downgraded to Tropical Storm

"This storm still has a long way to go before it leaves this state," Edwards said. "Don't let your guard down."

New Orleans had been braced for heavy rains Saturday, but instead had intermittent bands of moderate showers and occasional sunshine.

Tropical Storm Barry's Rain and Floods Hammer Gulf Environment

Though Barry will continue to dump rain throughout the weekend, forecasters downgraded rainfall estimates for the city through Sunday to between 2 to 4 inches (5 to 10 centimeters). Forecasters had earlier said New Orleans could get up to 20 inches (50 centimeters) of rain, raising concerns that water pumps strengthened after Hurricane Katrina would be overwhelmed.

National Weather Service forecaster Robert Ricks cautioned, however, that it was too early to say for certain that New Orleans was in the clear. "We're about at the (halfway) mark of the marathon right now," he said Saturday evening. Heavy rainfall from the storm would be concentrated overnight in a wide area centered around Lafayette, he said. The city is about 120 miles (193 kilometers) west of New Orleans.

'It's Powerful': Tropical Storm Starts Lashing Louisiana

Late Saturday night, authorities were trying to rescue a family of five who was trapped by high water in the south Louisiana town of Franklin, according to KTBS-TV . The National Guard had to halt its initial rescue mission because waters were too high to safely reach the family's home. Franklin is about 40 miles (64 kilometers) southeast of Lafayette.

In other parts of Louisiana on Saturday, Barry flooded highways, forced people to scramble to rooftops and dumped heavy rain, as it made landfall near Intracoastal City, about 160 miles (257 kilometers) west of New Orleans. Downpours also lashed coastal Alabama and Mississippi.

After briefly becoming a Category 1 hurricane, the system weakened to a tropical storm, the National Hurricane Center said. By late Saturday night, its maximum sustained winds had fallen to 50 mph (80 kph).

In Mandeville, a city on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain across from New Orleans, storm surge and choppy waters sent waves pushing over the seawall and into nearby communities. Dozens of people waded through knee-high water to take a look at the pounding surf.

Roughly a block away, water was covering Lisa Keiffer's front yard and the road in front of her house. It wasn't in danger of going in the house, where Keiffer has lived for 22 years, but she was worried about her nearby business. She and her husband own The Candy Bank — a candy store a few blocks away in the lakefront community featuring homemade fudge, jars filled with gummy bears, chocolate-covered espresso beans and other candies.

Earlier Saturday the lake's waters were lapping at the door, forcing her and her husband to scramble to raise everything off the floor.

"The problem with slow-moving storms or even tropical storms around this area is that it's unpredictable," she said. "It's very stressful because you don't know if you're going to flood, so you go all through the trouble of picking things up, raising things, moving things, and then it looks like it's not going to flood, and then 10 minutes later it looks like it's going to flood."

Elsewhere, Coast Guard helicopters rescued a dozen people and two pets from flooded areas of Terrebonne Parish, south of New Orleans, some of them from rooftops, a spokeswoman said. Those rescued included a 77-year-old man who called for help because he had about 4 feet (1.2 meters) of water in his home.

None of the main levees on the Mississippi River failed or were breached, and they were expected to hold up through the storm, Edwards said. But a levee in Terrebonne Parish was overtopped by water for part of the day, officials said. Video also showed water getting over a second levee in Plaquemines Parish, where fingers of land extend deep into the Gulf of Mexico. Terrebonne Parish ordered an evacuation affecting an estimated 400 people.

In some places, residents continued to build defenses against rising water. At the edge of the town of Jean Lafitte just outside New Orleans, volunteers helped several town employees sandbag a 600-foot (180-meter) stretch of the two-lane state highway.

"I'm here for my family, trying to save their stuff," volunteer Vinnie Tortorich said. "My cousin's house is already under."

Many businesses were also shut down or closed early in Baton Rouge, and winds were strong enough to rock large pickup trucks. Ricks said forecasters also downgraded their rainfall estimates for Baton Rouge to between 6 and 10 inches (15 to 25 centimeters) through Sunday, with up to 15 inches (38 centimeters) in some spots.

Oil and gas operators evacuated hundreds of platforms and rigs in the Gulf of Mexico.

More than 120,000 customers in Louisiana and another nearly 3,000 customers in Mississippi were without power Saturday, according to poweroutage.us.

Barry was expected to continue weakening and become a tropical depression on Sunday. But forecasts showed the storm on a path toward Chicago that would swell the Mississippi River basin with water that must eventually flow south again.

In Alabama on Saturday, flooding closed some roads in low-lying areas of Mobile County in Alabama, and heavy rains contributed to accidents, said John Kilcullen, director of plans and operations for Mobile County Emergency Management Agency.

Authorities closed floodgates and raised water barriers around New Orleans. It was the first time since Katrina that all floodgates in the New Orleans area had been sealed.

Associated Press writers Kevin McGill, Rebecca Santana and Sarah Blake Morgan in New Orleans; Jay Reeves in Baton Rouge; Juan Lozano in Lafayette; Rogelio Solis in Morgan City; Jeffrey Collins in Columbia, South Carolina; Russ Bynum in Savannah, Georgia; and Sudhin Thanawala and Lisa Adams in Atlanta contributed to this report.

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