Our Kind of Place
Our Kind of Place
Mobile’s Landmark Goober Shop
Seventy-five years of warm memories at one nutty little Alabama store
Our Kind of Place
Fannie Flagg Sets the Stage
The author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe found her voice thanks to one little Birmingham theater
Our Kind of Place
The Spirit of Ajax Diner
Soaking up life from a barstool at an Oxford, Mississippi, holdout
Our Kind of Place
Soaking Up Serenity on a Mississippi Trail
A Mississippi professor and poet wanders through the seasons of Oxford’s Whirlpool Trails
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
Our Kind of Place
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
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