In this episode, we join Grandmother’s Buttons founder and designer Susan Davis upstairs in the red historic bank building during the business’s final days in St. Francisville, to reflect on the alchemy of transforming antique buttons into jewelry and the many lives the brand has touched since Davis started it in 1985.

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"The Great Button Hunt"

Since 1983, with curiosity as our guide, Country Roads magazine has wandered the backroads of Louisiana and Mississippi—discovering and sharing Southern culture's most compelling stories through the written word.

Now, forty years later, we're thrilled to bring those stories to you in a brand new format. Introducing the Country Roads podcast, DETOURS—hosted by Publisher James Fox-Smith [https://www.facebook.com/james.foxsmith?__cft__[0]=AZU9o4RfX9xzKNDoRiMQLalSWZV8rpRzvFEW4tcAAWrO5DuS8UHFVitgW3YvOEq0pTwVUmG1hlHTzAxuGx7AnMaYL_Objb_p4YxPgxI_A7uaZvNqJtVxA37f10EgtAh_Fyhi7gVDsffodGjPrWbkm2pvZ89y49kJxwRIeTRiQDf1U0huJZzwZXSgdbXv1Pw_I8wzOrxIcYXeLk94tPySxDsk&__tn__=-]K-R] and Editors Jordan LaHaye Fontenot [https://www.facebook.com/jordan.lahaye.12?__cft__[0]=AZU9o4RfX9xzKNDoRiMQLalSWZV8rpRzvFEW4tcAAWrO5DuS8UHFVitgW3YvOEq0pTwVUmG1hlHTzAxuGx7AnMaYL_Objb_p4YxPgxI_A7uaZvNqJtVxA37f10EgtAh_Fyhi7gVDsffodGjPrWbkm2pvZ89y49kJxwRIeTRiQDf1U0huJZzwZXSgdbXv1Pw_I8wzOrxIcYXeLk94tPySxDsk&__tn__=-]K-R] and Alexandra Kennon [https://www.facebook.com/alexandrakennon?__cft__[0]=AZU9o4RfX9xzKNDoRiMQLalSWZV8rpRzvFEW4tcAAWrO5DuS8UHFVitgW3YvOEq0pTwVUmG1hlHTzAxuGx7AnMaYL_Objb_p4YxPgxI_A7uaZvNqJtVxA37f10EgtAh_Fyhi7gVDsffodGjPrWbkm2pvZ89y49kJxwRIeTRiQDf1U0huJZzwZXSgdbXv1Pw_I8wzOrxIcYXeLk94tPySxDsk&__tn__=-]K-R]. 

Original theme music written and recorded by Sam Shahin and Bill Daniel. Logo/creative direction by Kourtney Zimmerman. 

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