Author: Karen Harrell

We’re bound to have days that are rainy and somewhat chilly along the Gulf Coast, but that could be a positive thing rather than a negative.

Very often, I’ll order soup at restaurants and be disappointed by the quality.

I want a creamy, hearty, thick soup that sticks to your ribs – the home made kind – not reheated from a can.

This holiday season Bellingrath Gardens and Home in Mobile, Ala. has something very special planned for Christmas – another fabulous light display featured at the historical Alabama landmark.

Odyssey’s Shipwreck exhibit at the Baldwin County Heritage Museum allows visitors to take an amazing journey 1,700 feet below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean to the wreck site of the SS Republic, the greatest shipwreck treasure of the Civil War era.