Author: michaeldevault

Restoration 1

How to Start a Water Fire Restoration Business – Restoration 1

Originally Published, Restoration 1 Franchise October, 2019 Jump into the $210 billion restoration industry and start a water fire restoration business This year, more than 350,000 American homes will suffer fire damage. Another 100,000 homes will fall victim to flood damage. All told, more than half a million homes will require the services of a water…
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Violins of Hope East Nashvillian

Violins of Hope

Originally published, East Nashvillian March, 2018 At first, he thinks his ears must be deceiving him, because only a few hours ago, he was roused from bed by armed soldiers, demanding he leave at once. He’s heard the stories about the horrors of the internment camps near the border, but there’s music. Surely the terrifying…
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Good Neighbor Festivals East Nashvillian

Love Thy Good Neighbor

Originally Published, East Nashvillian July 2018 With events and celebrations all across town, Jack Davis and Good Neighbor Festivals aim to bring Nashville together Jack Davis arrived in Nashville 14 years ago with a job wrangling large-scale live events for Vanderbilt University, and a keen interest in the community. The combination of the two planted…
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The Jet Set Zeitgeist a Blog

The Jet Set

Originally published, Zeitgeist – a blog 23 October 2018 The Jet Set Or: How Little Mama Inspired Visions of a Glittering Future When I was about 12, my grandmother and I were sitting in the sunroom playing Gin and chatting. Memories of the subject of our conversation — the what or, more likely, the who —…
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finding machu picchu Michael devault

Finding Machu Picchu

Originally Published, Eclectica Magazine Jan/Feb, 2014 Finding Machu Picchu The first giant I ever met stood just four-foot eleven and weighed all of 90 pounds. At first, I wasn’t sure the woman in Apartment Ten would answer the door. But I was a persistent child and, in spite of the silence coming from inside, I…
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NIGHTSTANDS BOOK COVERS

Nightstands & Coffee Tables

Originally Published, BayouLife Magazine May, 2014 Four Masterpieces to Becoming a Well-Rounded Reader Sitting at a dinner party, you hear two friends discussing characters and events that sound familiar, and you start to play closer attention. They’re talking about a book, a classic that maybe you were supposed to have read when you were in…
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BayouLife King

King of Hearts

Originally published, BayouLife Magazine February 2016 Over the course of the last 40 years, technological advances in healthcare have meant fewer patients undergoing radical surgeries with high risks and long recoveries. Few of those innovations have touched as many lives as the extraordinary and innovative work of Dr. Terry King. article by Michael DeVault | …
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Dianne Cage

DIANNE: The Unauthorized Biography of Dianne Cage

Originally Published, BayouLife Magazine May, 2015 The Ark-La-Miss kitchen and gardening diva opens up about love, life and family in this no holds barred profile. With charm and grace, Dianne Cage demonstrates why she is a Bayou Icon. Article by Michael DeVault | Photography by Brad Arender A Faulkner novel would provide little fodder for the…
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