There is no doubt that the biggest new trend are micro-breweries and local wineries.  Forget traveling over 2,000 miles to go to Napa or Portland (Travel & Leisure Mags #1 location for beer drinkers), all you need is to take a less than an hour DAY TRIP to one of this regions wineries and breweries. At a brewery, make sure and take a tour, even if you’ve been on another brewery tour, they’re all different.  You get to learn what makes…

The weather is cooling, the leaves are turning, Starbucks line is hoping (more than usual)…it’s fall, or as some know it…Pumpkin Everything Season!  Pumpkin: spiced lattes, bread, muffins, cookies, pies, shampoo, facials, beer, candles, popcorn, soup, ravioli, and so much more. With pumpkins comes fun fall activities: pumpkin carving and painting, hayrides, corn mazes, bonfires, pumpkin patches, apple picking, and apple cider tasting.  Grab your kids, family, and friends and get outside to enjoy these fun activities.  West Tennessee has…

West Tennessee is blessed with so many opportunities to see live theater.  Yes, it probably costs more to go watch a performance live, but the talent these performers have is totally worth it.  They don’t have 700 takes to get it right…just 1.  As Neil Patrick Harris said in the opening of the 2013 Tony Awards, “See on Broadway we don’t need extreme close-ups to prove we are singing live.  We sing live 8 shows a week, check it.” (yep,…

70 years ago today, over 160,000 Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy, France to fight and defend our country against Aldof Hitler’s Nazis.  June 6, 1944 will forever be known and remembered as D-Day, where over 9,000 soldiers’ lives were lost, but they will never be forgotten.  Today only a few remaining soldiers that stormed the beaches still survive to tell their story of Operation Overload.  However, in the little town of Halls, Tennessee, you will find a…