Tag: Southbound
Book Tour: Mississippi
Explore the Southern origins of William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, and Eudora Welty.
Book Tour: Alabama
A road trip through the hometowns of Harper Lee, Truman Capote, and F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald
Book Tour: Georgia
Visit the stomping grounds of Margaret Mitchell, Joel Chandler Harris, Alice Walker, and Flannery O’Connor.
Independent Spirit
Hugely successful author Ann Patchett just penned her seventh novel, Commonwealth, which spans fifty years and sprawls from California to Virginia, telling the story of a blended family marked by tragedy. She takes us inside her Nashville bookstore.
Spotlight on Sawtooth Plantation
To understand Sawtooth Plantation, just step into the cookhouse. Inside the soaring room with comfortably worn leather furniture and a large stone fireplace, you’ll notice two things: a collection of huge white-tailed deer mounts, and a customized professional grade kitchen.
Southern Magnolias
Adorning cemeteries, residential streets, and grand public properties, the Southern magnolia represents, for many, the resilient character of Dixie and all she holds dear.
Where to Stay: Spotlight on the Swag
Standing on the porch of the Swag House, a mountaintop inn above Waynesville, North Carolina, I’m struck by the grandeur of my surroundings: the towering trees, the handsome rough hewn–log cottages, the ancient mountains giving way to the gathering night.