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Our Kind of Place

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

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Healing on a South Carolina Horse Farm

At Unbridled, animals and humans find a Lowcountry safe haven

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Tallahassee’s Nest for Writers

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

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Mobile’s Landmark Goober Shop

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

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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

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The Spirit of Ajax Diner

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

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Soaking Up Serenity on a Mississippi Trail

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

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Inside a Spirited Savannah Throwback

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

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Folly Beach’s Doggone Good Breakfast Spot

A love letter to the quintessential
beach-town hangout

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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

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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

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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

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Soda Shop Time Machine

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

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Inside a Hallowed Shotgun Hideaway

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

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My Old Kentucky Store

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

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Ace Atkins’s Ode to a Mobile Bay Retreat

Conjuring the ghosts of summers past at the storied Grand Hotel

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Streetcar Sprints

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