Gabriela Gomez-misserian

Come late May in Charleston, the city buzzes with musicians, actors, dancers, and visitors for Spoleto Festival USA, one of the premier performing arts festivals in the world. “All of these different art forms come to a city that is frozen in time with co... See more

Sea Island Sea Island, Georgia This classic coastal resort’s allure for newlyweds could fill volumes. And it does. Forty-seven honeymoon albums (started in the early 1940s) contain the signatures of almost forty thousand couples who’ve celebrated the star... See more

Many Southern gardeners sit down in the winter to flip through seed catalogs, hot coffee in hand and visions of spring blooms in their heads. Seasoned green thumbs, however, know that cold-weather dormancy, when weeds have retreated, provides a prime oppo... See more

In October 2019, three weeks into a grueling cross-country tour of forty-one shows with only five days off, Justin Townes Earle played to a sparse crowd seated at cocktail tables in a dimly lit club in Jackson, Mississippi. The audience, noticeably smalle... See more

Four nights a week, in a building perched atop a cliff overlooking the Chesapeake Bay in Betterton Beach, Maryland, Paul Edward welcomes eight guests to his chef’s counter for a twelve-course meal that tells the story of the Eastern Shore. Sassafras—named... See more