Our Kind of Place
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
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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
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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
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Ode to Chesapeake Bay
In praise of simple summers by the shore
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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
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River Remedy: Harpers Ferry
Chasing smallmouth and solace where the Shenandoah and Potomac meet in Harpers Ferry
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The Columns Hotel
Rick Bragg’s New Orleans epiphany
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A Picker’s Paradise
A Nashville singer-songwriter and antiques junkie shares her favorite inspiration point
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North Carolina’s Old Burying Ground
A gorgeously overgrown graveyard in coastal North Carolina preserves centuries of stories
Our Kind of Place
Inspiration Point: Horn Island
A half century after the artist Walter Anderson’s death, his barrier island muse is as captivating as ever