Our Kind of Place
Our Kind of Place
Athens’s Tree of the People
On being the forest for the tree
Our Kind of Place
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
Inside a Hallowed Shotgun Hideaway
If you want to see some of the finest shotguns in the country, first you have to ask
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
Our Kind of Place
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
Our Kind of Place
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
Our Kind of Place
Home Rum: Kings Tavern
Food and drink pair perfectly in a downtown Natchez outpost
Arts & Culture
The Mighty Ryman
A tribute to 125 years of the Mother Church
Our Kind of Place
A Mississippi General Store Endures
The Simmons-Wright Company stocks 133 years of tradition
Our Kind of Place
River Remedy: Harpers Ferry
Chasing smallmouth and solace where the Shenandoah and Potomac meet in Harpers Ferry
Our Kind of Place
The Columns Hotel
Rick Bragg’s New Orleans epiphany