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Erin Austen Abbott

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  • Writer and Photographer, Freelance
  • None, Yahoo! Creators
Water Valley
As seen in: Yahoo Life, The Atlantic, Yahoo, Bon Appetit, Matador Network, Yahoo Creators, Southern Living Magazine, Hachette Book Group (HBG), Condé Nast Traveller, Southern Spaces and
Covers:  Family travel, art, design, travel, family, music, architecture, nature, education, food, and beverage

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Erin Austen Abbott’s Biography

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Erin Austen Abbott’s Journalist Portfolio

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Teaching Table Manners to Children Over Shared Dishes, One Restaurant at a Time

Teaching Table Manners to Children Over Shared Dishes, One Restaurant at a Time

A visit to Jackson, Mississippi's Pulito Osteria, blends approachable design with an outstanding family-style…

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Learning Life Skills Becomes a Family Affair

Learning Life Skills Becomes a Family Affair

Learning Life Skills Becomes a Family Affair. Working with Memphis-Based Paint Company, Farrell-Calhoun, to T…

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The Storms That Teach What We Can Tolerate

The Storms That Teach What We Can Tolerate

The South knows warm-weather storms, but the cold has its own lessons.

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Navigating Creative Wildness

Navigating Creative Wildness

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Waterfront Living

Waterfront Living

Whether you've summered in Eastern coastal towns, visited cottages beside the Great Lakes, or dreamed of Paci…

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How to Pass the Time in Taylor

How to Pass the Time in Taylor

When the time changes in the fall and the sun starts to go down right around 3:30 p.m., the light hitting the…

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Birding, Boating, and Bouillabaisse: 3 Days on the Mississippi Coast

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Wildlife by Erin Austen Abbott Jul 7, 2026 I’ve always been drawn to the work of 20th-century artist Walter Anderson, who lived and worked in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, a place where Spanish moss and ferns cover the live oaks lining the downtown area. He painted bunnies, birds, and all the bits of nature that crossed his path.
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I Worked Out Twelve Times in 48 Hours: And I'd Do It Again

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The Main Lodge at The Farm (Katie Figura) I think that, as a parent with a full-time career and someone who homeschools my 14-year-old son, I often forget to stop and take care of myself. I try, but there aren't enough hours in the day to fit in work, school, caring for the home, walking the dog, feeding the cat, and so on. It's something I'm trying to get better at, but until I'm at that point, I've been looking for ideas for places to escape to and reset. That's when I found The Farm.
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Travel to the Mountains and Visit the Wildflowers this Spring

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Flame Azaleas on Forney Ridge Trail. (The Gatlinburg Convention & Visitors Bureau) Were you as obsessed with the book Ferdinand, the Bull, as much as I was as a child? I would read it over and over, just wanting to live in a field of wildflowers like Ferdinand longed for. I’ve dreamed of turning my yard into a wildflower meadow ever since, mapping it out each year and each year I’m reminded I missed my window, or didn’t order the seeds in time, or couldn’t find native seeds in stock.
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How is social media changing news?

You really have to do your due diligence to determine what is factual, given the rapid speed at which it's delivered.

What tools and software do you use to do your job?

Zoom for face-to-face, and Otterly for recording and transcribing the conversation.

Aside from your own, what's your favorite publication to read?

Afar, Conde Nast Traveler, The Atlantic, Bon Appétit, The Guardian, Good Grit, Wildsam, and NYT.