Garden & Gun

From historic oceanfront resorts to intimate cottage colonies tucked into the hillsides, Bermuda offers many idyllic choices for where to stay. Private beaches, rolling golf courses, fine dining, and attention-to-detail service are just some of the p

Among the stalls at Charleston, South Carolina’s City Market, fifth-generation artisan Corey Alston continues his family’s time-honored trade, sweetgrass-basket weaving, at his Gullah Sweetgrass Baskets stand. From traditional S-handled and fanning b

When the G&G team, led by style director Haskell Harris, began dreaming up the design for the magazine’s new digs inside Charleston, South Carolina’s revamped Cigar Factory—during the early part of the twentieth century, 1.5 million cigars were hand

I have a confession to make. Until recently, I had never baked biscuits from scratch. Oh, I’ve eaten plenty, whether at the nearest Bojangles’ after duck hunts (yes, I think that chain wins the fast-food biscuit war) or while visiting Blackberry Farm

Starting more than two hundred years ago, some of America’s grandest residences were constructed along a roughly hundred-mile stretch of the Mississippi River, running from New Orleans westward toward Baton Rouge, Louisiana’s capital. “Plenty of dwel

Dressed in a white tank top, blue jeans, and brown knee-high boots, Maren Morris slides into a suede chair in the sunroom of her manager’s East Nashville bungalow. Morning sunlight filters into the serene setting, but there’s an underlying current of

Spend a morning shooting a box or two of paper shotgun shells, and one of the first things you’ll probably notice is the smell. That particular aroma, something like a combination of toasted walnuts and burnt wax, can inspire fond memories among thos

Josh Meyer was ten days into his position as the director of buildings, gardens, and grounds at Tudor Place Historic House and Garden in Washington, D.C.’s Georgetown neighborhood when a staff gardener told him something was up with the boxwood. This

It’s not hyperbole to say that the designer Trish-ala Bhansali’s love of Indian textiles began just moments after her first breath, when her mother wrapped her tiny wriggling body in a dohar, a traditional Indian blanket made of three layers of fine

Who makes the real bourbon, Kentucky or Tennessee? Tennessee’s is the fake one, right? We have the contacts for an excellent team of former Delta Force commandos for your security in the state of Tennessee, so let us know if you’re headed that way. B

¾ oz. lemongrass and mint syrup (recipe follows)1½ oz. Kentucky bourbon8–10 spearmint leaves1-inch piece lemongrass stalk, cut into pieces2 oz. prosecco1 drop Angostura bitters 3 stalks fresh lemongrass, cut into ½-inch pieces25–30 fresh spearmint l

Pastry professionals love Doughmakers pans and baking sheets, like this 10-by-14-inch Biscuit model, for their durability and signature pebbled surface. The pattern is embossed into the aluminum to allow airflow for better browning. It’s naturally no

In 1947, a tough, hardworking seventeen-year-old named Pete Jones opened the Skylight Inn, a little drive-up in tiny Ayden, North Carolina. Though he couldn’t read or write, Jones turned it into one of the South’s most revered shrines to whole-hog ba

Sipping a good amaro for the first time is like getting a knock on the door from unknown relations. They might come off as a bit off-putting upon first acquaintance, but after a few moments, you find they’re of good character, full of warmth and chee

In the spring of 1931, one of the first farmers to plant onions in Toombs County, Georgia, made an unexpected discovery: Bulbs that were typically sharp-flavored when planted elsewhere turned sweet in the low-sulfur soil of his fields. He started tel

On a lonely road, outside an abandoned juke joint, among broken glass and malt liquor cans, lilies bloomed. Nearly five feet tall, with upright white and pink trumpet flowers, the beauties caught the eye of a young plantsman driving down Highway 301

In the ensuing years, this monthlong celebration of the South’s favorite springtime sipper has spread far beyond Kentucky—to participating bars across America, where you can enjoy refreshing twists on the traditional drink of the Derby. Participants

The lighting designer Fleming James grew up in Greenville, Alabama, with a mother who adored decor with a story. “I based my first light on this elaborate piece in our house that I loved when I was little,” James says. “It was called a bouillotte lam

By profession, Chip Ervin has an eye for color. For decades, as a custom clothier at the men’s store Grady Ervin in Charleston, South Carolina, he has coaxed clients toward the perfect silk-lined Italian sport coat, fitted generations of young men wi

What does your dream home look like? Chances are, it’s not the same as your neighbor’s. Everyone has a different vision of domestic paradise, whether it’s a house with a cozy sleeping porch, perfect for curling up with a crossword puzzle; a kitchen w

Our first wedding anniversary was June 7, 2004, and I had orders to deploy to war. That day I kissed my wife, Katy, hard, wiped away what threatened to become more tears than I considered acceptable, and departed for three months of training followed

In January, on a very cold, rainy night not in Georgia (RIP, Tony Joe White) but in Nashville, I took my mother to the Bridgestone Arena to see a star-studded tribute to Willie Nelson, which was heralded as a commemoration of his eighty-sixth year an

FOUR YEARS AGO, AN ARCHITECT FROM GEORGIA AND A DESIGNER FROM Virginia drove toward the green hills of Walland, Tennessee, to Blackberry Farm. They went past the main dining barn of one of the South’s most beloved resorts, through the white pines, an

AN ENCHANTING PAINTING HANGS IN A QUIET CORNER OF ZOË AND BRYS Stephens’s Charleston, South Carolina, sitting room, depicting the library of Zoë’s childhood home, the circa-1772 William Gibbes House, with its brimming bookshelves and French wallpaper

A STAIRCASE HAS GONE MISSING— it was supposed to be over here, says the artist James Michalopoulos. He had marked the location on the warehouse floor the other day, and those marks had been erased or moved or something happened, and so he scouts arou

HE GOES BY “SCOOTER” BECAUSE THAT’S how he got to the river. After the DUI, the jail time, the realization, he tells me, that the path he was walking would lead to either a life in prison or the grave, he moved back home to Bristol, Tennessee, to liv

I call that counting the money,” Scott Peacock says, his hands deep in a vintage yellowware bowl and in constant motion. Four women, who have driven hours to the small town of Marion, in his home state of Alabama, to join him in the sunny kitchen of

Old Florida—the real Florida, the true Florida—can be a tough place to find. The state has reinvented itself so many times over—Disney Florida, Space Coast Florida, Golf Florida, Swamp Florida, Spring Break Florida, Retirement Florida—that its histor

We took our infant daughter to Moon Lake for our first family vacation last summer. It had been a long year, with lots of stress at work and the joy and exhaustion of a newborn. My wife, Sonia, and I needed a few days to stare at water. When we walke

Gregory Davis and his crew in the Dirty Dozen Brass Band thought they knew the drill when they booked a street parade gig in Chicago a few years back. “But it was so different,” he says. “People had to stay on the sidewalks. We stopped at all the red

Mark your calendar for these upcoming Garden & Gun experiences.  G&G, Maker’s Mark®, and Bourbon Country® celebrate the mint julep, a quintessential seasonal Southern cocktail, for thirty days leading up to the Kentucky Derby. Throughout the month, b

If you’re inquiring about a charter on The Beaches of Fort Myers & Sanibel—located on Florida’s southwest coast, roughly halfway between Tampa and Miami—there’s a good chance your quarry isn’t fish. It’s seashells. Okay, the fishing here is first-rat

With 320 days of sunshine on average per year and a wide variety of activities that will satisfy every type of traveler, you could make multiple trips to Panama City Beach, located where the Gulf of Mexico and St. Andrews Bay converge, and still disc

Old Florida meets new on the cobblestoned streets, boardwalks, and narrow footpaths that crisscross Rosemary Beach. Developed in 1995, the 107-acre town, which is situated on Florida’s Scenic Highway 30A, is entirely walkable, encouraging a pre-strip

Postcard-perfect beaches with powder-white sand and brilliant emerald water aren’t the only reason to love the Heart of Florida’s Emerald Coast—the twenty-four-mile stretch of coastline of Destin, Fort Walton Beach, Okaloosa Island. What once began a

Like the fiber in okra and the pluribus in unum, some issues of singular and plural may be insoluble. But they don’t have to be divisive. The Rampart Food Store in New Orleans—known locally as “the orange store,” because it is painted bright orange o