The Captain and the Farmer: One Fairhope Couple Works the Bay and the Rows
The Captain and the Farmer: A Fairhope Couple Living Off Land and Sea “The Captain and the Farmer” sounds like the title of a summer novel, rich with characters and…
Down the Stairs and Into the Scene: The Book Cellar Keeps Fairhope’s Easy Hours
Down the Stairs and Into the Scene: Fairhope’s Book Cellar Keeps Its Easy Hours Fairhope has no shortage of places to hear live music, but few rooms have the particular…
From Locomotive to Lakewood to a Fairhope Backyard: The Remarkable Journey of the Birdie Bell
From a Selma Foundry to a Fairhope Backyard: The Long Journey of the Birdie Bell Some heirlooms sit on shelves. The Cerf family’s bell hangs six feet in the air…
The Bird That Almost Wasn’t: Pulitzer Winner Jack E. Davis Tells the Bald Eagle’s Improbable Comeback
The Bird That Almost Wasn’t: Jack E. Davis Brings the Bald Eagle’s Story to Fairhope Few animals carry as much symbolic weight as the bald eagle — and few have…
A Gallery Hiding in an Event Venue: The Apiary Art Show Adds a New Dimension to Fairhope’s Arts and Crafts Weekend
A Gallery Hiding in an Event Venue: The Apiary Art Show Comes to Arts and Crafts Weekend During Fairhope’s Arts and Crafts weekend — the 70-plus-year festival that swells the…
Sit Where You Please: American Legion Post 199 Opens Its Doors — and Its Restaurant — to All of Fairhope
Come On In, Sit Where You Please: The New American Legion Restaurant on the Bay The sign at the front door of the new American Legion building in Fairhope sets…
Four Decades on the Line: Tamara Wintzell’s Tamara’s Downtown Remains a Fairhope Institution
Four Decades of Feeding Fairhope Tamara Wintzell has been a fixture of the Fairhope restaurant scene for more than four decades — long enough to remember when the town’s dining…
Referee Shirts and Grand Slam Burgers: Inside Fairhope’s Tammy’s Sports Bar and Grill
Referee Shirts and Grand Slam Burgers: Fairhope’s True Sports Bar Fairhope has never lacked places to eat well, but until recently it lacked a true sports bar — the kind…
Six Minutes, No Notes: The Hope Community’s Story Slam Packs Fairhope’s Book Cellar
Six Minutes, No Notes: The Night Fairhope Told Its Stories On a Wednesday evening in December, The Book Cellar in downtown Fairhope was standing-room only — not for an author…
Smelly Cheese and the Mist of Mobile Bay: Inside A Fairhope Nutcracker
Children's Dance Theatre artistic director Zoe Lombard-Todd reimagined the holiday ballet as A Fairhope Nutcracker, setting it in downtown Fairhope with an 80-dancer cast at the Fairhope Civic Center.