Garden & Gun

Celebrating the best of Southern culture, music, food, style, travel, art, literature, and the sporting life. Plus, lots of good dogs.

Garden & Gun

Heavy Hitter • A VINTAGE SLEDGEHAMMER GOES FROM RUST HEAP TO WALL HANGER

Ten Years of Made in the South • Honoring our first Hall of Famer

JUDGES Meet the Tenth Annual Made in the South Awards • To see the Made in the South Awards winners, turn to page 120.

“Could you prepare us for the Good Dog story by giving, say, a one-to-five-tear-jerk emoji rating?”

Social Chatter • GARDENANDGUN.COM AND BEYOND

Home Again • ON HER FOOD NETWORK SHOW, THE IRREPRESSIBLE KARDEA BROWN CELEBRATES HER GULLAH ROOTS

Life, Camera, Action • DOCUMENTARIAN RHETT TURNER BUILDS AN ECOLOGICAL LEGACY ON FILM

Rally Cat • THE COMPELLING SAGA OF THE FLORIDA PANTHER’S COMEBACK

Ode to Larry Brown • A Mississippi voice shines in this short-story collection

Dynamic Soul • DEVON GILFILLIAN BRINGS A SOUND ALL HIS OWN ON HIS INSPIRING DEBUT

Delta Great • Honoring the pianist and songwriter Mose Allison

From Jail to Georgia • SECOND CHANCES, ANIMAL CALLS, AND BARLOW KNIVES

Rhinestone Cowboy • NASHVILLE’S NEW FAVORITE TAILOR, JERRY LEE ATWOOD, PICKS UP THE NUDIE SUIT THREAD

Mount Pleasant, South Carolina

Presidential Pour • GET TO KNOW AN OVERLOOKED CUBAN CLASSIC

A Whole Latke Love • APRIL MCGREGER GIVES SOUTHERN FLAIR TO THE TRADITIONAL HANUKKAH DISH

Roll of a Lifetime • NATHALIE DUPREE, THE DOYENNE OF SOUTHERN COOKING, REFLECTS ON HELPING TO SHAPE BOTH THE REGION’S CUISINE AND THOSE WHO MAKE IT

The Family Seafood Joint • FINDING COMFORT IN THE CLASSICS AT JOHNNY’S HALF SHELL IN WASHINGTON, D.C.

Power Lunch • Suits and sev puri at a D.C. institution

Candy Crush • THIS GEM OF A WINTER SQUASH GETS SWEETER WITH AGE

Flying High • WITH ONE FLEW SOUTH ENTERING ITS SECOND DECADE, A LOOK AT HOW THE ATLANTA AIRPORT RESTAURANT REROUTED SOUTHERN HOSPITALITY

Made in Columbia, SC • MEET THE LOCAL MAKERS TRANSFORMING THE CITY INTO A HOT SPOT FOR SOUTHERN CREATIVITY

Out of the Box • PICKING OUT PRESENTS BECOMES A JOY WITH THESE FIFTY-FOUR MEMORABLE IDEAS

Puppy Trials • AMID A NEW PUP’S JUMPING, CHEWING, SHREDDING, AND ESCAPING, A FAMILY FIGURES OUT WHAT REALLY MATTERS

The Auction Experience • FEEL THE EXCITEMENT AND GET YOUR HANDS ON HISTORY AT THE COUNTRY’S BIGGEST ANTIQUE AND RARE FIREARMS AUCTION

Out to Pasture • IN DEFENSE OF THE HONORABLE ASS

FLORIDA FOUND • The spirit of Old Florida endures—come along as we crack stone crabs with Rick Bragg, cruise back in time down the St. Johns River, and explore more than two dozen hidden gems, from the Panhandle to the Keys

old Florida • A lifetime of memories of shell hunting in Panama City Beach and eating stone crabs in Siesta Key keeps onetime local Rick Bragg longing to return

RIYER IN TIME Watching the moonrise while anchored on the St. Johns River just off Lungren Island. • To find the primeval heart of Florida, take a voyage down the St. Johns

HOT LIST • Secret island getaways, swamp sanctuaries, sunken gardens, dive bars, oyster shacks, and other haunts that embody a not-quite-bygone Florida

HEALING NOTES Allison Moorer with her dog, Willie, at her home in Nashville. • Bringing a deeply painful past into the light, singer-songwriter Allison Moorer’s new memoir and album are testaments to the power of art—and of the human spirit

TENTH ANNUAL Made in the South Awards • The softest blankets imaginable. A heart-jolting chicory liqueur. A camp knife pulled from a dream. These blue-ribbon winners and more in the categories of Crafts, Drink,...