Our Kind of Places


A white brick exterior of a record shop with two people sitting outside at a table

Our Kind of Place

Locals drop the needle at a cozy hangout in Florence

Our Kind of Place

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

Our Kind of Place

A quiet paddle away into a Louisiana marsh, Fort Proctor straddles time and space

Our Kind of Place

Bring cash (no credit cards!), conversation, and a sense of adventure to the Original Pinkie Masters

Our Kind of Place

A love letter to the quintessential
beach-town hangout

Our Kind of Place

Reflecting on a Mark Twain–worthy adventure on Arkansas’s White River

Our Kind of Place

The front man of the Grammy-nominated Hiss Golden Messenger on finding a stage—and a whole lot more—at NorthStar Church of the Arts

Our Kind of Place

On being the forest for the tree

Our Kind of Place

A gardener finds peace at the back-roads haven where a South Carolina topiary artist shapes his own story

Our Kind of Place

A veteran music writer and Threadgill’s regular pens an ode to the Austin institution that launched Janis Joplin—but is now closing its doors for good

Our Kind of Place

A North Carolina college-town landmark serves up perfect fries and three generations of family lore

Our Kind of Place

A country outpost gives a poet an education no book could provide

Our Kind of Place

Conjuring the ghosts of summers past at the storied Grand Hotel

Our Kind of Place

How a New Orleans icon became a local’s unlikely training partner

Our Kind of Place

The decades dissolve in a flicker at Kathryn’s, an old-school Italian joint in the Mississippi Delta

Our Kind of Place

A Southern Maryland native revisits a barbecue shack that serves up a slab of memories

Our Kind of Place

A North Carolina novelist reflects on summer nights at the ballpark

Our Kind of Place

Searching for the weird heart of a Tennessee roadside attraction

Our Kind of Place

Finding adventure and solace on the Altamaha River

Our Kind of Place

Why the least-heralded bar on Biscayne Bay is exactly where you want to be