Daylilies, Olives & Wine
Part one of a series on traveling the Georgia Grown Trail, with stops at Horse Creek Winery, Georgia Olive Farms and Country Lane Daylilies.
Literary Friday
Literary bands. The release of new summer reads. Our next Twitter chat. Book giveaways. (Un)required reading, including 100 of the best first lines from novels. Remembering William Faulkner in literary events & new fiction in Southern Voice. Happy Literary Friday!
Dry Grass
by Daniel Payne One of the guards opened the door to the Warden’s office and Zane walked in and looked around at the half-dozen men standing there. They were all wearing suits like him and they all looked worried and scared and unhappy.
Summer Sliders
Louisiana chef Mimi Kirzner is making the world a better place through her homemade jam and marmalade, which she recommends serving atop sliders this summer.
Travel Tuesday: Walter Anderson Museum of Art
Stepping inside the Walter Anderson Museum of Art in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, is like stepping inside the artist's world for an hour or two. Its skylit interior of warm Southern yellow pine is a glowing backdrop for Anderson's depictions of the plants, animals and people of the Gulf Coast.
Thanks for Everything
Tips on the (not so) lost art of writing thank you notes by Atlanta etiquette expert Patti Davis.
Literary Friday
Chat with Kimberly Brock & a giveaway of "The River Witch." The first Chattooga River Festival celebrates the 40th anniversary of "Deliverance." Zach Galifianakis & the new poet laureate of the United States in literary news. Eudora Welty & Ernest Hemingway in literary events & poetry about fried chicken in Southern Voice. Happy Literary Friday!
A Pair of Poems About Fried Chicken
"How to Eat Fried Chicken" by Alabama student Kellie Webb and "Good Fried Chicken Is Hard to Find" by Louisiana native Thomas Cochran.
Celebrating a Wild and Scenic Georgia River
by Rebecca Lynn Aulph If you find yourself canoeing down the Chattooga River June 22-24, and you happen to hear banjo music, don't start paddling in the opposite direction. Instead, head toward the first annual Chattooga River Festival.
Gone With the Wind Trail Debuts
Windies have been traveling the "Gone With the Wind" trail for years, but for regular fans of Margaret Mitchell's masterpiece, a new, official trail of sites in and around Atlanta makes it easy to discover the story's history and legacy.