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Arts & Culture
Good Times for Art at Gasparilla
How a Tampa arts festival champions young talent

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Funeral Fundamentals, Grapefruit League High Jinx, and More
Open caskets, Mardi Gras music, and old-Florida baseball

End of the Line
Can You Be Immune to Dance Fever?
Ruminating on a reluctance to boogie

Interview
The Unsung Influence of Restaurateur Alexander Smalls
With his latest album and cookbook releases, Alexander Smalls celebrates his Southern roots

Arts & Culture
A Southern Family Portrait
The acclaimed author of Big Fish often draws inspiration—literally—from his offbeat kin. Behold his unparalleled pedigree

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G&G’s Most Popular Online Stories of 2019
Twenty of the most-read items published this year on gardenandgun.com

The High & The Low
Out to Pasture
In defense of the honorable ass

Arts & Culture
Celebrating Eighty Years of Gone with the Wind
How Georgia will mark the film’s anniversary

Music
Dynamic Soul
Devon Gilfillian brings a sound all his own on his inspiring debut

Arts & Culture
Fifty Years of True Grit
John Wayne’s granddaughter gives a behind-the-scenes look at a new exhibition that compares the classic Western novel and two films

Arts & Culture
Scott Avett’s Other Art
Fresh off the release of the Avett Brothers’ new album Closer Than Together, the singer-songwriter and frontman shares his large-scale oil paintings in a new exhibit at the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh

Arts & Culture
Pumpkin Carving You Have to See to Believe
Artisans turn pumpkins into a canvas for elaborate works of art / Five thousand pumpkins transform a Kentucky park into a ghostly escape

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Jessica Lange’s Road Trips South
The actress’s new book shares her black and white photos of Highway 61

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Behind Dolly’s America
Public radio vet Jad Abumrad set out to define Dolly Parton’s influence. He came away with a new nine-part podcast series unpacking the past—and a story that’s still unfolding

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Celebrating Southern Women
In honor of the debut of our new book Southern Women, Holler Beach Productions created a special film celebrating dynamic Southern women in the book and beyond

Arts & Culture
Fifty Years of Appalachian Arts
Whitesburg, Kentucky’s Appalshop celebrates a milestone of preserving the culture of the Southern mountains

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Through an Alabama Lens
A new exhibition celebrates the way artist William Christenberry saw the South

G&G Interview
The Many Faces of Ray McKinnon
There may be no more versatile a Southern actor, writer, and director than this son of Georgia

Arts & Culture
In Praise of Designing Women
Just so you will know—and your children will someday know—you can stream all seven seasons on Hulu. Here, five super-fans share their favorite episodes—and explain why the iconic series still matters

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Feigning a Faint
Fake maladies, cussin’ advice, and storm protocol