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Elizabeth Hutchison Hicklin

Elizabeth Hutchison Hicklin is a Garden & Gun contributing editor and a full-time freelance writer covering hospitality and travel, arts and culture, and design. An obsessive reader and a wannabe baker, she recently left Nashville to return home to Charleston, South Carolina, where she lives with her husband, their twins, and an irrepressible golden retriever.

A bow of a boat is decorated with a garland of evergreens. It sits on top of aqua blue water

Travel

Candy-striped boat awnings, stone crab claws in silver champagne buckets, and bougainvillea everywhere—Bahamas-based interior designer and legendary hostess Amanda Lindroth puts on a tropical holiday to remember

Downtown Waynesville, North Carolina.

Travel

“Above all, your presence shows that the outside world cares” 

Clemson fans pack the stands

Arts & Culture

Tips on attire, tailgate etiquette, and more from a lifelong college football fan

A waterfall with greenery

Travel

Escape the crowds at the nation’s busiest national park and explore one of these less-traveled trails

A guest room with rustic details

Travel

A new boutique hotel in North Carolina’s High Country invites guests to reconnect with the landscape and each other

A country store

Travel

These small-town mercantiles offer up an extra scoop of nostalgia along with sugar, milk, the occasional cast-iron skillet or pallet of lumber—and everything in between

A woman swings on a swing in her garden

Home & Garden

Native plants color the canvas for a Lowcountry artist and landscape architect

An aerial shot of a waterfall in a forest

Travel

At the confluence of three Tennessee rivers, this rugged park delivers scenic views, impressive waterfalls, and serene swimming holes as well as world-class fishing and kayaking

A woman stands in an art conservation studio with a large painting on an easel behind her

Arts & Culture

With each scan and brushstroke, a detail-oriented conservator proves that the past still matters

A woman holds a surfboard in a yard of a cottage with wood planting beds

Homeplace

Inside and out, the nineteenth-century home embraces intimate and relaxed design

Two people on horseback ride over a ridge on a mountain with a grand landscape in the background

Travel

How a Tennessee couple is leading the longstanding North Carolina equestrian getaway into the twenty-first century

A family sits in a restaurant at a checked red and white table.

Food & Drink

The Oliphants have upheld the tradition—and downed countless biscuits—through births, deaths, and a pandemic

A woman in a black top and a man in a red jacket smile in front of a Chinese bar with ornate patterning and a green wall

tastemaker

Corrie and Shuai Wang serve up Chinese ’cue with Holy City flair at their latest North Charleston restaurant, King BBQ

A brick building with shops and Christmas decor and lights in the snow

Travel

Where to find carriage rides, twinkling lights, Christmas parades, and more festive fun

A man sits in an elegant dining room with his feet on a chair and notebooks at his hand

Food & Drink

An exclusive look inside Lowland and the Quinte

A pumpkin crumble in a pan

Food & Drink

Including a genius tip for unset pumpkin pie and a super easy recipe for save-the-day rolls

Our Kind of Place

Life and love on an old Boston Whaler in Tennessee’s Cumberland River

Travel

Skip the crowds and head for these nature-filled hideaways

Travel

Do go chasing waterfalls, especially these heavy-hitting cataracts and under-the-radar stunners

Travel

Beyond Broadway’s neon haze, a robust roster of outdoor destinations await exploration