Tag: Southbound
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.
Spotlight on Monmouth Historic Inn
I arrive at the inn after midnight. Monmouth, perched atop a hill and surrounded by giant oaks, glows white in the moonlight. As I pull into the drive, deer scamper in front of my...
Spotlight on WaterColor Resort
WaterColor has established a standard of its own. Every year since 2013, the resort has received Forbes’ Four Star designation, making it the most decorated property in northwest Florida.
Street Smart: Jackson, Mississippi’s North Main Street
It’s Thursday evening, and the Downtown Fondren Historic District in Jackson is electric. North State Street, the area’s main thoroughfare, glows with boutiques, galleries, and some thirty neighborhood restaurants—the heaviest concentration of eateries in...
Mama and the Host of Golden Daffodils
Woodlands, as we called Barnsley, had long been wilderness, with its battered mansion and broken heart. I grew up on the legends.
Ancient Mountains: Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Straddling the border of North Carolina and Tennessee, Great Smoky Mountains National Park is renowned for its plant and animal life, as well as its finely preserved remnants of Southern Appalachian mountain culture.
Underwater Wilderness: Biscayne National Park
South of bustling downtown Miami and below the tranquil surface of the ocean lies a vast and colorful world known as Biscayne.
River of Grass: The Florida Everglades
With its vast wilderness, colorful history, and myriad plant and animal life, the Florida Everglades possess an almost mythical quality. The subtropical park on the southern tip of Florida is “one of the unique regions of the earth,” according to noted writer and environmentalist Marjory Stoneman Douglas.