Gabriela Gomez-Misserian

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Digital Editorial Producer and Writer at Garden & Gun

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What’s Happening in the South: April/May 2025

2 weeks ago | gardenandgun.com | Gabriela Gomez-Misserian

TravelGoings-on in the region and beyond Fish FlyOutdoorsFrom April 25 through 27, hundreds of fish flingers will once again launch mullet into the sky and across the Florida-Alabama state line, hoping to beat the record of 189 feet and eight inches at the Flora-Bama Interstate Mullet Toss. The Pensacola, Florida, bar of that name hosted its first toss forty years ago in 1985, and nowadays, the annual party’s not over until some local alligators also get a taste of the action.
Jessica B. Harris Sets Out for Sapelo Island

2 weeks ago | gardenandgun.com | Gabriela Gomez-Misserian

You can reach Sapelo Island only by a ferry that leaves three times a day (and just twice on Sundays) from small-town Meridian, Georgia, in the marshy wilds between Savannah and Brunswick. Travelers enter from the twenty-first-century rural South and emerge after the twenty-minute crossing into another world—one simultaneously haunting and more than probably haunted. I perhaps first heard of Sapelo while reading Servants of Allah, by Sylviane A.
Why Does Vivian Howard Find It So Hard to Get the Mail?

2 weeks ago | gardenandgun.com | Gabriela Gomez-Misserian

A month ago, a friend who’d recently separated from her husband asked me what the hardest thing about being divorced is. Without thinking, I blurted out, “Getting the mail.” I took that back pretty quickly. Getting the mail is by no means the most difficult part of ending a marriage, particularly one with children. In the grand scheme, walking or riding to the mailbox—even if, like me, you’re not used to the task—feels like a grain of sand on a beach of problems.
Why Does Vivian Howard Find It So Hard to Get the Mail?

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Gabriela Gomez-Misserian

"I am deeply grateful this process has come to an end, allowing me to refocus on what matters most — serving the students and community." AMAGANSETT, …
How Old Is Too Old for Precious Embroidered Rompers and Dresses?

2 weeks ago | gardenandgun.com | Gabriela Gomez-Misserian

Sartorially speaking, an infant is barely more than part of a parent’s outfit, like a handbag or a jacket. Put your baby in a little blue bubble smocked with yellow sun-shines, and you have a whimsical accessory for a day at the beach! As they get older, though, kids develop brains and personalities. That’s when—sigh, FINE—we have to start treating them like people. Smocked clothing on a toddler, precious as it is, should express something true about the child wearing it.
A Celeb-Favorite Southern Design Duo Debuts at West Elm

3 weeks ago | gardenandgun.com | Gabriela Gomez-Misserian

Nearly a decade ago, I produced a Homeplace story for Garden & Gun about the Nashville residence of Louisa Pierce, a Birmingham, Alabama, native and half of the then Music City–based design duo Pierce & Ward. The house—which Pierce collaborated on with her close friend and design partner, Emily Ward—delighted myself and readers because it was inviting, layered, modern, and full of quirk and personality, hallmarks that felt markedly different from what other Southern firms were doing at the time.
Was That a Whippoorwill or a Chuck-Will’s-Widow?

3 weeks ago | gardenandgun.com | Lindsey Liles |Gabriela Gomez-Misserian

While reporting a story at Archbold Biological Station in the ancient sand dunes of Central Florida in March, I stand on the porch under a starry sky and hear one of my favorite sounds in the world: the lilting call of a whippoorwill. Excited, I whip out my phone to text the news to ornithologist John Fitzpatrick—incidentally the cofounder of e-Bird, which powers the hugely popular birding app Merlin—who is staying in a nearby cabin.
Seven Southern Mountain Coasters that Promise Scenery-Soaked Thrills

3 weeks ago | gardenandgun.com | Kinsey Gidick |Gabriela Gomez-Misserian

The Southeast is known for its rolling hills and Blue Ridge peaks, and one of the coolest ways to take in the scenery is at high velocity. Mountain coasters—gravity-driven rides that wind through natural landscapes—have surged in popularity across the region, offering an equal mix of adrenaline rush and Appalachian charm. Sevier County, Tennessee, is home to eight of these ridge runners alone, but you can find them peppered across the region.
Five of the Bahamas’ Best Bonefish Lodges

3 weeks ago | gardenandgun.com | Nick Roberts |Gabriela Gomez-Misserian

TravelItching for a shot at the gray ghost? From Grand Bahama’s renowned East End to the remote Crooked Island, these lodges offer prime fishing grounds along with some of the archipelago’s most beautiful scenery Any saltwater fly angler will tell you that the Bahamas mean bonefish.
How to Curate and Care for Art at Home, According to the Experts at 21c

3 weeks ago | gardenandgun.com | Leilani Marie Labong |Gabriela Gomez-Misserian

At first glance, the average home art collector has little in common with the seventeen-person, full-time museum staff that faithfully maintains 21c Museum Hotels’ 5,500-piece collection of contemporary art from around the world. But as Patrick Weber, the Louisville-based hospitality brand’s director of operations, points out, scope and scale don’t define substance—what matters is how a collection shapes the experience of those who live with it.