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

Asheville Calling • REMEMBERING THE ULTIMATE ROAD TRIP—AND LOOKING AHEAD TO NEW ADVENTURES

Come On In • A new must-stop in Kentucky

CONTRIBUTORS

LETTERS

Cover Camper • Transforming a vintage travel trailer into a one-of-a-kind road-ready masterpiece

Social Chatter • GARDENANDGUN.COM AND BEYOND

Standing Tall • A MEMBER OF THE BLACK FEMALE SUPERGROUP OUR NATIVE DAUGHTERS, AMYTHYST KIAH SHINES ON HER NEW SOLO ALBUM

Down East Beacon • A NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM HOLDS ON TO SPORTING HISTORY AND COASTAL CULTURE WHILE LOOKING AHEAD

Dual Roles • HOLLYWOOD FIXTURE WILL PATTON RULES THE AUDIOBOOK WORLD, TOO

Megawatt Dreams • WHY HENRY FORD AND THOMAS EDISON’S SOUTHERN PARADISE FIZZLED

Field Notes • Journey along with a sportsman

Silver Summers • LESSONS FROM A MULLET MENTOR ON THE WATERS OF MOBILE BAY

Call of the Wild • GATOR VIBES, HIGH HORSES, AND MIRACLE MIGRATIONS

SOUTHERN FOCUS

Wild Grilling • A WHOLE-FISH RECIPE FROM FLORIDA THAT’S PERFECT FOR THE BACKYARD

MEET THE CHEF: JEFFREY JEW

Whiskey Shiver • THE WELCOME CHILL FACTOR OF THE FROZEN IRISH COFFEE

A Taste for Heirlooms • A PAIR OF VIRGINIA GROWERS DIG INTO THE SOUTH’S SWEETEST WATERMELONS

All Hail the Queen • CELEBRATE SUMMER IN THE SOUTH WITH THE CROWN JEWEL OF THE CORN FAMILY

Rocket City’s Jamaican Flair • IN RAPIDLY GROWING HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA, GET A TASTE OF THE DEEPER SOUTH

Jerk Station • Fuel up with a plate of chicken

Instrument of Funk • MUSICAL RENAISSANCE MAN JON BATISTE CAN TRACE HIS LIFE IN MUSIC WITH MELODICAS

The Art of the Sleeping Porch • WIND DOWN WITH FLAIR IN THIS NOSTALGIC SUMMERTIME HAVEN

Charleston Gem • VIVID HUES AND BEGUILING UPDATES SET A HISTORIC LOWCOUNTRY HOME APART

A Farmer’s Shadow • AN AGING AND ABANDONED COUNTRY DOG FINDS HIS PACK ON A SOUTH GEORGIA FARM

Mind Trip • THE PRESSURES OF THE LAST YEAR FIND RELEASE IN A DREAM DAY AT THE BEACH

SOUTHERN ROADS • AS SUMMER BECKONS, SIX WRITERS CHASE the OPEN HIGHWAY, DROPPING PINS along the WAY at a MISSISSIPPI BARBECUE JOINT, BACKLIT BLUE RIDGE VISTAS, and a CERVEZA-SOAKED BORDER TOWN that PRACTICALLY WROTE ITSELF into the ULTIMATE ROAD TRIP SONG

GRINGO HONEYMOON • HOW an OFF›ROAD ADVENTURE INSPIRED the CLASSIC TEXAS SONG

RIDING SHOTGUN • JOURNEYS into the HEART of MISSISSIPPI

PARKWAY INTERSECTIONS • The BLUE RIDGE ROADS that RAISED ME

COASTING THE GULF • A LOLLYGAGGER’S IDEAL ITINERARY

MEMORY HIGHWAY • DRIVING with MY EYES CLOSED

RIDE OF PASSAGE • SALUTING the SPIRITS of OLD FLORIDA

HATCHING THE IMPOSSIBLE • STEEL, MIDNIGHT, PEACH, HAZEL, PLATINUM, TAUPE, JADE—DRIVEN by the THRILL of CREATION and DISCOVERY, the MISSOURI FARMER BRAD LEGG HAS ALMOST SINGLE-HANDEDLY SPURRED the PROLIFERATION of CRAZY-COLORED PEACOCKS

CAJUN RIFF • THE ROOTS of CHEF ERLING WU-BOWER’S ACCLAIMED COOKING›and HIS OUTLOOK on LIFE-TRACE DIRECTLY BACK to HIS LOUISIANA HERITAGE, a CULTURAL GUMBO of BAYOU FISH CAMPS, NEW ORLEANS JAZZ CLUBS, and a FAMILY WHO GIVES IT to HIM STRAIGHT

LAKE HOUSE REVERIE • ROY BLOUNT JR. STEPS BACK in TIME to HIS FAMILY’S OLD-SCHOOL SUMMERS on the WATER

High Hampton’s Next Act • THE BLACKBERRY FARM TEAM HELPS USHER IN THE NEXT CHAPTER OF A FABLED NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAIN RETREAT

Breakfast with the Dogs • A LOVE LETTER TO THE QUINTESSENTIAL BEACH-TOWN HANGOUT

The Southern Agenda

Setting the Table • Noteworthy...