08/04/22
When it comes to restaurants here in Alabama, most are sitting out in plain sight. However, there are plenty that are situated in the middle of nowhere, or...
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07/22/22
Any restaurant that makes it 10 years is huge success. Twenty years, and it’s practically an institution. But 50 years? A hundred years? That qualifies for...
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07/19/22
Months after the pandemic started, singer Ann Wilson felt the need to be inspired and energized. So she and her husband rented a tour bus and traveled from her...
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07/11/22
A new spot has emerged on the vacation scene called Nashville’s Big Back Yard, and this stretch between Muscle Shoals, Alabama, and Nashville, Tennessee, makes...
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07/05/22
It all started in 1917. During that year, Texas dairy farmer Paul Trowbridge happened to stop overnight in the tiny North Alabama town of Florence on his way...
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07/01/22
Alabama is justly famous for its cute country towns and a rich food and music heritage – and you can swing your way through some of the state’s best offerings...
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06/27/22
It all began in 1959 when Rick Hall, Tom Stafford, and Billy Sherill set up a recording studio above a drugstore in Florence, Alabama. The Florence Alabama...
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06/27/22
Besides music, want a good reason to visit Tuscumbia in The Shoals area of Alabama? How about a visit to Ivy Green and watching outdoor drama The Miracle...
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06/21/22
Our last leg of the trip, we visited The Shoals, in northwest Alabama.
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06/21/22
Follow the 100-mile route along the historic Natchez Trace Parkway from Leiper’s Fork, Tennessee to Florence, Alabama and you'll find a rural escape from...
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06/21/22
Trowbridge’s in Florence, AL is a happy place. It’s a place of cherries on top with extra whip cream, a menu of ice cream flavors readable from any seat in the...
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06/16/22
Nashville seems to be on everyone’s bucket list these days. The metro area, which rose from 1.6 million to nearly 2 million residents from 2010 to 2020, also...
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