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  I Spent the Night in a Bass Pro Shop…and Woke Up Happy

  Garden & Gun Magazine - Steve Russell

  Every time I’ve visited my old hometown of Memphis over the past decade, family and friends have made a point to suggest that I take my kids to see the Bass Pro Shops at the Pyramid. The more they insisted, the more I resisted, for what I considered good reason: Our vacation itinerary was already …

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  What’s Happening in the South: April/May 2025

  Garden & Gun Magazine - Gabriela Gomez-Misserian

  Fish Fly Outdoors From April 25 through 27, hundreds of fish flingers will once again launch mullet into the sky and across the Florida-Alabama state line, hoping to beat the record of 189 feet and eight inches at the Flora-Bama Interstate Mullet Toss. The Pensacola, Florida, bar of that name hosted …

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  Jessica B. Harris Sets Out for Sapelo Island

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  You can reach Sapelo Island only by a ferry that leaves three times a day (and just twice on Sundays) from small-town Meridian, Georgia, in the marshy wilds between Savannah and Brunswick. Travelers enter from the twenty-first-century rural South and emerge after the twenty-minute crossing into …

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  Seven Southern Hotel Rooftop Hotspots

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  White Limozeen, the Graduate Nashville The view typically steals the show at a rooftop bar, and given its twelfth-floor location in Nashville’s bustling Midtown, White Limozeen certainly checks that box. But before taking it in, your retinas will need to recalibrate to the explosion of pink, red, …

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  These Southern Dude Ranches Combine Luxury and the Great Outdoors

  Garden & Gun Magazine - Kelsey Glennon

  The term “dude ranch” dates back to the late nineteenth century in the American West. “Dudes,” a slang term for city dwellers from the East Coast, were drawn to the romantic, rugged appeal of ranch life—including such “chores” as horseback riding, hunting, foraging, and tending a garden. Today, that …

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  Waitin’ for a Train: Now You Can Actually Ride in Merle Haggard’s Personal Dome Car

  Garden & Gun Magazine - Kinsey Gidick

  Country music legend Merle Haggard once told NPR’s Terry Gross that he hopped his first train at age five. The son of a Santa Fe Railroad carpenter had a lifelong love affair with locomotives—so much so that he actually named his twentieth studio album My Love Affair with Trains. Now, fans of rail …