Tagged: deep-south

Alabama’s New Freedom Monument Sculpture Park Explores Legacy of Slavery

A new sculpture park in the Alabama capital is designed to explore the institution of slavery as well as the lives and legacies of enslaved people. Set on 17 wooded acres next to the…

A Much-Needed New Hotel Opens on the Mississippi Blues Trail

This past summer, The Cotton House in Cleveland, Mississippi, opened as a major boutique-style hotel in the Mississippi Delta, a part of the country that hasn’t usually been strongly…

How to Have the Best Day Ever in Jackson, Mississippi

It is easy to breeze right by Mississippi's sleepy capital city—many do, treating it as little more than a stop off on the way to some place more iconic, more exciting. New Orleans,…

Been to Birmingham Lately? You're In for a Surprise

Built on the backs of the labor that manned its mines, furnaces, and mills, and quite famously a flash point in the Civil Rights struggle, Birmingham, Alabama, has been a tough sort…

What's New: An Online Update for Frommer's Sweden

Stockholm In existence since 1874, the posh Grand Hotel (S. Blasiehomshamnen 8; tel. 08/679-35-00; www.grandhotel.se) has just completed a series of upgrades. Located in the heart of…