Our Kind of Places


Our Kind of Place

Finding Home on the Cumberland

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

Our Kind of Place

Fortress of Solitude in Louisiana

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

Our Kind of Place

Inside a Spirited Savannah Throwback

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

Our Kind of Place

Folly Beach’s Doggone Good Breakfast Spot

A love letter to the quintessential
beach-town hangout

Our Kind of Place

Arkansas Stream of Consciousness

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

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In Praise of a North Carolina Musical Haven

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

Athens’s Tree of the People

On being the forest for the tree

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Seeking Solace in Pearl Fryar’s Topiary Garden

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

Our Kind of Place

Pour One Out for Threadgill’s

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

Soda Shop Time Machine

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

Our Kind of Place

My Old Kentucky Store

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

Our Kind of Place

Ace Atkins’s Ode to a Mobile Bay Retreat

Conjuring the ghosts of summers past at the storied Grand Hotel

Our Kind of Place

Streetcar Sprints

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

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Moon Lake Memories

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

Our Kind of Place

A Rack of Ribs Sent from Heaven

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

Our Kind of Place

Finding Home at a North Carolina Ballpark

A North Carolina novelist reflects on summer nights at the ballpark

Our Kind of Place

Rock of Ages: Chattanooga’s Rock City

Searching for the weird heart of a Tennessee roadside attraction

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Georgia’s Little Amazon

Finding adventure and solace on the Altamaha River

Our Kind of Place

Aw, Shuckers

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

Our Kind of Place

Ode to Chesapeake Bay

In praise of simple summers by the shore