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The Haunted South: Hayrides, Ghost Stories, and the Best Fun of the Fall
The South does the spooky season better than anybody, and for the fun of it: hayrides, corn mazes, porch ghost stories, the happiest shiver of the year.
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Towns, landmarks, and the corners of the South worth the drive.
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The Blue Ridge Parkway: The Most Beautiful Drive in the South
Four hundred and sixty-nine miles of ridgeline, no billboards and no hurry. America's favorite drive, at its most beautiful in October.
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The Southern Fair: Blue Ribbons, Midway Lights, and the Season of Coming Together
The midway lights, the livestock barns, the blue-ribbon pies, and a whole county gathered up in one glowing place. A love letter to the fair.
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Abbeville, South Carolina: The Town Where a Confederacy Began and Ended Abbeville holds a heavy distinction: where the Confederacy was first cheered into being, and where, five years later, it quietly ended. -
The Lighthouses of the South, Part Three: The Screw-Pile Lights of the Sounds The last leg of our lighthouse journey, into the quiet sounds where a stranger light once stood: a little house on iron screws over the water. -
The Southern Town We Can't Stop Thinking About: Oxford, Mississippi The students come back, the Square fills up, and Faulkner's ghost keeps a quiet house at the edge of town. This is Oxford, Mississippi. -
Abingdon, Virginia: The Town That Traded Ham for Hamlet In the far corner of Virginia sits a handsome mountain town whose famous theater once let farmers pay for a play with produce. It is still going. -
The Lighthouses of the South, Part Two: The Gulf Coast The second in our series on the beacons of the Southern coast. From Pensacola to Sanibel, the Gulf lights guard a flatter, trickier shore. -
The Lighthouses of the South, Part One: The Atlantic Coast The first in a series on the beacons of the Southern coast. Seven Atlantic towers built to keep ships off the shoals, and worth the climb. -
Edenton, North Carolina: Where Women Told a King No A quiet bay town that was North Carolina's first colonial capital, home to the state's oldest working courthouse and an early women's political protest. -
Staunton, Virginia: The Town That Kept Its Face In the Shenandoah Valley sits one of the finest Victorian downtowns in the South, a walkable little city that decided its old buildings were worth keeping. -
The Great Southern Road Trip: Six Drives That Show You the Real South Some of the South can only be understood from behind the wheel. These are six drives worth clearing a whole weekend for. -
Berea, Kentucky: The Town That Makes Things by Hand A small Kentucky town organized around craft, anchored by a college where students earn a tuition-free education by learning the old Appalachian arts. -
Cades Cove: The Valley That Was Kept A mountain valley in the Smokies where a whole community was bought out and moved so the place could be saved, and their empty cabins and churches still stand. -
Monroeville, Alabama: The Town That Became a Book A small Alabama town two childhood friends turned into American literature, where the courthouse from the most famous courtroom in fiction still stands. -
A Tale of Two Beauforts: North Carolina and South Carolina Same spelling, two pronunciations, two souls. One Beaufort works the Atlantic tides, the other drowses under Lowcountry oaks. -
Wetumpka, Alabama: The Town in the Crater A central Alabama river town sits inside a five-mile meteor crater, where the Coosa still rumbles past a downtown that kept its footing. -
Madison, Georgia: The Town Too Pretty to Burn A Georgia town with so much architecture still standing that walking it feels like stepping inside a question about what survives. -
Leiper's Fork: The Village That Decided Not to Grow Thirty minutes from one of America's fastest-growing cities, Leiper's Fork chose to stay what it was. Where Nashville goes to remember what it used to be. -
The Southern Town We Can't Stop Thinking About: Natchitoches, Louisiana The oldest settlement in the Louisiana Purchase, where worn brick streets follow a river that stayed put, and the meat pies start arguments. -
The Southern Town We Can't Stop Thinking About: Apalachicola A small fishing town on Florida's Forgotten Coast, where the river still shapes daily life and the old oyster shucking houses still stand along the water. -
25 Southern Towns That Remind Us Why We Love the South From shrimp boats and courthouse squares to mountain overlooks and riverfront streets, twenty-five communities that capture the spirit of the American South.