
Kevin Benefield
Editorial Director at Atlanta Magazine
Editor at Southbound
Editor of Southbound magazine and Georgia Travel Guide, editorial director of Atlanta Magazine Custom Media, and creative services director for Atlanta magazine
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3 weeks ago |
atlantamagazine.com | Kevin Benefield
Coastal AlabamaIllustration by BrainstormSouthwest Alabama is a land dominated by water, from Mobile Bay and the Gulf of Mexico to the Magnolia River and the Mississippi Sound, as well as a host of lakes and lagoons, swamps and sloughs, bogs and bayous. As such, travelers along Alabama’s Coastal Connection, a National Scenic Byway, will be treated to plenty of stunning water views.
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Dec 5, 2024 |
atlantamagazine.com | Brady Nash |Kevin Benefield |Emma Hunt |Jennifer Green
While some holiday traditions have stood for centuries (Christmas trees and carols), others have faded from popular view (when was the last time you hung a box of animal crackers as an ornament?). At these Southern destinations, what’s old is new again every December. From Christmas Eve bonfires and glowing Moravian stars to hayrides and fife and drum corps marches, these yuletide celebrations offer a glimpse of Christmas as it used to be—in many cases, even before it arrived in the New World.
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Dec 3, 2024 |
atlantamagazine.com | Kevin Benefield
The Great Smoky Mountains, a mist-shrouded subrange of the Appalachians, dominate the landscape, as well as the history and culture, of southeast Tennessee. For more than 12,000 years, this was the land of the Cherokee people, until the mid-1700s, when European explorers, traders, and settlers began entering the area in growing numbers.
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Aug 8, 2024 |
atlantamagazine.com | Kevin Benefield
Northeastern Mississippi is a crossroads and has, over centuries, been formed by that distinction. Corinth, in the far north of the state, came into being in the 1850s when the survey lines for two major railroads intersected, creating a boom town. Known as the Crossroads of the South, it would become one of the most contested spots during the Civil War, as the railroad to which it owed its beginnings became its greatest liability.
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Apr 29, 2024 |
atlantamagazine.com | Kevin Benefield
Conceived in 1914, the Dixie Highway was the first interstate highway connecting the industrial North to the largely agricultural South. Inspired by the rise of the automobile and the fanfare surrounding the dedication of the nation’s first transcontinental road (the Lincoln Highway, which connected New York City to San Francisco), this network of roads would ultimately link Chicago and Detroit to Miami by way of parallel branches.
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