Every Piece Has a Story: How Decatur Comes Alive for the RiverClay Fine Arts Festival
Kim Mitchell's favorite way to describe RiverClay starts with an ordinary Thursday. "On Thursday, it's just your normal, typical City Hall," she told me. "And on Friday it becomes an arts festival, and there's white tent...
North Alabama Fall Foliage Trail
There’s a saying that says fall is a southerner’s gift for surviving summer. If that is indeed true, North Alabama’s fall gift is gorgeous, vibrant fall foliage, and north Alabama has many breathtaking spots to see some colorful ...
Best Places to Get a Pumpkin in North Alabama
Fall = pumpkins. Right?! Check out some amazing places to pick out a pumpkin and to have some fall fun while doing so! Boyd Family Farm Get ready for some fall fun here at Boyd Family Farm! Enjoy a unique fall farm experience for the whole family wit...
He Never Lived in Nashville: How John Paul White Built a Career Without Leaving the Shoals
I had a question ready about what it was like to move home from Nashville. I never got to ask it, because the premise was wrong. “It's a common misconception that I lived in Nashville,” John Paul White told me about six minutes in....
October Events in North Alabama
Anne of Green Gables said, "I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers." So are we, Anne. October has a different feel to it: crisp air, colorful foliage, pumpkins, festivals, and the list goes on. It also has a spooky edge...
No Guitar on the Logo: How Huntsville Built a Music Scene on Purpose
There is a detail from this episode I have not stopped thinking about. When the city of Huntsville designed the logo for its music office, nobody put a guitar on it. That was on purpose. “We identified really quick that we're not really a...
Six Hundred Feet Down: What's Waiting at Little River Canyon
When Pete Conroy started pitching the idea in the early 1990s - a national park unit and a state university sharing one building on the rim of an Alabama canyon - nobody could quite see it. Including him. “No one could really wrap their minds ...
September Festivals in North Alabama
There are two months in the year when festivals are the most popular in North Alabama. One is May because it’s finally warming up. September is the other because it is finally cooling down. As the temps dip down below scorching, make plans to ...
An Overnight Success 20 Years in the Making: How Downtown Athens Got Its Evenings Back
One of Tere Richardson's former board members used to describe downtown Athens in the 1980s like this: on a Friday at five o'clock, he could throw a rock anywhere on the square and not hit anything except maybe a stray dog. This past Friday...