-
1 week ago | 
knoxvilledailysun.com | Tom Adkinson
SAN ANTONIO – Breakfasts in the fancy hotels along San Antonio’s famous Riverwalk are a treat, but barely two blocks off the river is a downtown spot that locals love and lucky visitors find – La Panadería – at the corner of E. Houston and Navarro streets. La Panadería is a friendly, unassuming breakfast/brunch/lunch bakery and cafe abundantly stocked every morning with treasures from the oven that tempt you to order to excess. If you do order too much, that’s why carryout boxes exist.
-
2 weeks ago | 
knoxvilledailysun.com | Tom Adkinson
KERRVILLE, Texas – For a small town, Kerrville goes for western art in a big way. Despite having a population of only 25,000, Kerrville’s Museum of Western Art has become a destination for people who appreciate the diverse art of the American West. In fact, it was fans of this genre who brought the museum into being.
-
2 weeks ago | 
mainstreetmediatn.com | Kara Aguilar |Tom Adkinson |Main Street Nashville
Boaters can dock within a few yards of the 119-room Lodge at Pickwick Landing State Park in southwest Tennessee. TOM ADKINSONCOUNCE – Lake-loving Middle Tennesseans seem to look east more than west for their aquatic destinations, but they are missing a solid bet in Pickwick Lake and a gem of the Tennessee state parks system, Pickwick Landing State Park.
-
2 weeks ago | 
mainstreetmediatn.com | Kara Aguilar |Tom Adkinson |Main Street Nashville
TOM ADKINSON Main Street Nashville Flags were placed by Middle Tennessee Scouts to decorate graves at the Stones River National Cemetery in Murfreesboro. PHOTO BY MIDDLE TENNESSEE COUNCIL OF SCOUTING AMERICAWhen you see small American flags adorning service members’ graves this Memorial Day, young participants in the Scouting America program are likely responsible.
-
3 weeks ago | 
knoxvilledailysun.com | Tom Adkinson
Georgia is big, diverse and dynamic, and travelers this year can find “newish” attractions that are coming into their own and destinations with deep histories that are sporting banners that say “New and Improved.” Here is a sampling scattered around the Peach State. What can a city do with a hulking, out-of-date power plant in a conspicuous location?
-
1 month ago | 
knoxvilledailysun.com | Tom Adkinson
AMERICUS, Ga. – President Jimmy Carter’s death in 2024 brought renewed attention to south Georgia and his hometown of Plains. Lodging is at a premium in this thinly populated corner of the state, but the nearest “big city” to Plains has a hotel surprise. The Windsor Hotel in Americus (population 15,400) is steeped in history and has solid connections to President Carter and his wife, Rosalynn.
-
1 month ago | 
mainstreetmediatn.com | Kara Aguilar |Tom Adkinson |Main Street Nashville
Kirby Davis and his wife Kelsy are rarities in Tennessee agriculture – they are full-time flower farmers. TOM ADKINSONKirby and Kelsy Davis are young and productive Tennessee farmers, but you won’t find corn, soybeans, hay or cattle on their spread just outside of Dickson. Instead, you’ll find snapdragons, ranunculus, anemones, narcissus, peonies and many other beauties of nature.
-
1 month ago | 
knoxvilledailysun.com | Tom Adkinson
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – Thomas Jefferson would love Charlottesville’s Downtown Mall. It offers music (Jefferson played violin), good food and drink (Jefferson introduced wine production in Virginia), multiple bookstores (Jefferson’s own library was the seed of the University of Virginia) and places for conversation and gathering (Jefferson certainly liked to talk).
-
1 month ago | 
grouptravelleader.com | Tom Adkinson
Although New Jersey, South Carolina and California each grow significantly more peaches than Georgia, it’s Georgia that has long enjoyed the nickname of “the Peach State.” Fruit production aside, Georgia is a peach of a tour destination. It has mountains and beaches, big cities and small towns, colorful festivals and quiet museums — and plenty of peach cobbler, too.
-
1 month ago | 
knoxvilledailysun.com | Tom Adkinson
OKLAHOMA CITY – Spring is a time of mixed emotions in Oklahoma City. While there is joy witnessing nature’s renewal, a sense of somberness also rests on the city because April is the month for special remembranceof the largest act of domestic terrorism in the history of the United States. It was April 19, 1995, when 4,000 pounds of explosives hidden in a rental truck detonated, ripping apart the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, damaging 300 more buildings and killing 168 people.
