News Article Detailing the Rose’s Department Store Fire in Marion Virginia in April 1989

There are plenty of odd chapters in Southern pop culture, but few are as wonderfully strange as the rise and fall of Billy Beer. It arrived in 1977 with all the subtlety of a marching […]

There are places in this world that don’t just serve food, they serve memories. Around here, the Dip Dog Stand has always been one of those places, and the best part is that it’s still […]

Every town has a story it likes to claim, a little spark of legend that gets passed around at barber shops, church suppers, and front porches. Some of those stories are tall tales, some are […]