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Our Kind of Place

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

A woman stands over a car with kayaks in front of a parking lot to the Sewee Outpost

Our Kind of Place

Why the eclectic store is David DiBenedetto’s favorite stop on a familiar stretch of Highway 17

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

At Unbridled, animals and humans find a Lowcountry safe haven

Our Kind of Place

We came for the grouper sandwiches and stayed to play at Bird’s Aphrodisiac Oyster Shack

Our Kind of Place

Seventy-five years of warm memories at one nutty little Alabama store

Our Kind of Place

The author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe found her voice thanks to one little Birmingham theater

Our Kind of Place

Soaking up life from a barstool at an Oxford, Mississippi, holdout

Our Kind of Place

A Mississippi professor and poet wanders through the seasons of Oxford’s Whirlpool Trails

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

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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

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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

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On being the forest for the tree

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

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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

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

Our Kind of Place

If you want to see some of the finest shotguns in the country, first you have to ask

Our Kind of Place

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