Country Roads Magazine "The Road Trip Issue" April 2022

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Contents

A P R I L 2 02 2

Events

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VO LU M E 3 9 // I SS U E 4

Features

REASONS TO CELEBRATE Car shows, food fests, gardening extravaganzas, and live music everywhere you look

REFLECTIONS Location, Location, Location by James Fox-Smith

NEWS & NOTEWORTHIES

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When God sends you to North Alabama by Chris Turner-Neal

(DE) TOURING MUSTANG ISLAND Embracing the road less traveled, Gulfside by James Fox-Smith

THE GRAND CANYON OF THE SOUTH Descending into the Red Bluff by Chris Turner-Neal

On a beautiful spring day in early March, 2020, photographer Brian Pavlich drove his utterly prosaic SUV to Natchez, Mississippi. His mission: Capture a cover-worthy photograph featuring five of the most beautiful vehicles ever built. With hundreds of highly desirable Porsches, Ferraris, Rolls-Royces, and Ducatis about to descend on Natchez for the annual Euro Fest Classic Car and Motorcycle Show, what better picture to feature on the cover of Country Roads’ April 2020 issue, we thought, than one of gorgeous classic cars swooping along the Trace at the height of springtime? Best-laid plans … As the whole world knows, the week following that photoshoot brought the cancellation of Euro Fest and every other event across the country as COVID-19 spread. Plans for that magazine cover had to change too, leaving our classic car photo shoot all dressed up, so to speak, with nowhere to go. But the resulting pictures were too good not to hold onto. So now, with the world open for business again and the Euro Fest Classic Car Show returning to Natchez this April 22–23, we can finally put Brian’s terrific photograph on the cover. We are grateful to the drivers, who brought their rare and valuable vehicles out to the Trace from Natchez, and as far afield as Baton Rouge and Jackson, Mississippi; then patiently drove around all day while we photographed them.

Read about one of the cars to be featured at this year’s festival , a 1956 Ferrari 250 GT “Boano” Coupe, in Publisher James Fox-Smith’s story on page 52.

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6 Restaurants Worth Stopping For by Jyl Benson, Sam Irwin, Lucie Monk Carter, Chris Turner-Neal,

Catherine Schoeffler Comeaux, and Christie Matherne

Culture

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MAN MEETS CAR How an impossibly rare 1956 Ferrari made its way from the Mille Miglia, to Baton Rouge by James Fox-Smith

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The trials and jubilations of the road trip by Christie Matherne

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A SMOKIN’ COLLECTION Douglas Diez’s 5,000 historic pipes

by R. Stephanie Bruno

VICKSBURG CIVIL WAR MUSEUM Charles Pendleton transforms his collection of guns and ephemera into a museum. by Cheré Coen

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A P R 2 2 // C O U N T R Y R O A D S M A G . C O M

Managing Editor

Jordan LaHaye Fontenot Alexandra Kennon

Creative Director

Kourtney Zimmerman

Contributors:

Cover image by Brian Pavlich

JUST GET IN THE CAR

Associate Publisher

Arts & Entertainment Editor

HOT PURSUIT ON THE NATCHEZ TRACE

ROAD EATS

James Fox-Smith Ashley Fox-Smith

On the Cover

Cuisine

Publisher

BRING ME TO BIRMINGHAM

Escapes

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SUNSHINE’S CALLIN’ A road trip along the Florida Coast by Kristy Christiansen

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PERSPECTIVES Rebecca Rebouché is a dreamer, a naturalist, and a myth-maker. by Jordan LaHaye Fontenot

Jyl Bensen, R. Stephanie Bruno, Kristy Christiansen, Paul Christiansen, Cheré Coen, Sam Irwin, Christie Matherne, Kimberly Meadowlark, Lucie Monk Carter, Brian Pavlich, Catherine Schoeffler Comeaux, Chris Turner-Neal

Cover Artist

Brian Pavlich

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President

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