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Our Kind of Place

Cigar boxes stacked in a shop

Our Kind of Place

Spring Street Cigars fuels just the right blend of camaraderie and solitude

A gumball machine and knick knacks on the wall of a restaurant entrance

Our Kind of Place

Even after sixty years, Ray’s Millpond keeps things deliciously the same

A mountainscape

Our Kind of Place

In an idyllic park in Valle Crucis, time, alas, doesn’t quite stand still

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

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