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CJ Lotz Diego

CJ Lotz Diego is Garden & Gun’s senior editor. A staffer since 2013, she wrote G&G’s bestselling Bless Your Heart trivia game, edits the Due South travel section, and covers gardens, books, and art. Originally from Eureka, Missouri, she graduated from Indiana University and now lives in Charleston, South Carolina, where she tends a downtown pocket garden with her florist husband, Max.

Arts & Culture

A few of our favorite bonus shots

Arts & Culture

For his book, John Boessenecker spent five years poring through FBI files, books, and hundreds of news reports to set the record straight

The Southern Agenda

Goings-on in the South and beyond

Arts & Culture

Little-known Southern tidbits about the White House gardens

Books

Revisit the locations that inspired five classic childhood novels

The Southern Agenda

Everybody clamors for frozen confections from these six classic southern parlors

Music

Bassist and former owner David Hood reflects on five essential albums that came out of the Muscle Shoals Sound Studios

Arts & Culture

North Carolina author Bronwen Dickey on what she learned writing her book, Pit Bull: The Battle Over An American Icon

Arts & Culture

Three new pony-related books just in time for race season—plus, one visual stunner to make your coffee table an ode to all things equestrian

An early look at the new exhibit at Atlanta Botanical Garden

Gardens

How the father of landscape architecture left his final fingerprints on the South

Weekend Agenda

A small Georgia city continues to celebrate its signature bloom—this year, with a new title

Arts & Culture

A fascinating book, The Electric Pencil: Drawings from Inside State Hospital No. 3., tells the story of an artist whose works were almost lost

Books

Harvey Penick’s sage advice still resonates

The Southern Agenda

This spring, the South takes center stage in five new plays and revivals

Arts & Culture

Roy Blount, Jr. shares a collection of essays, songs, poems, and odes to the food he loves and loathes

Arts & Culture

Today, more than three million young women across 92 countries are Girl Scouts

Gardens

Five jaw-dropping views that will yank you right out of winter hibernation

Arts & Culture

The world of travel trailers is as wide as the open road

Good Dogs

Only a handful of minor league teams across the country employ dogs as ball and bat retrievers, and Miss Babe Ruth left her mark