The Garden is growing and the Gun has taken aim. While that may sound like some cryptic CIA code, we’re really just trying to welcome you to the launch of the Garden & Gun Web site’s blog.
This is another phase in our growth cycle. Browse through this new site and let us know your thoughts. We plan, like good Southern neighbors, to let you know ours.
Use this blog to share your ideas or tell us about events you’ve been to or that unique experience you can find only in the South. Here is where you peek over the hedge and spy on the Southland.
Here in our offices on King Street in downtown Charleston, South Carolina, we are feverishly working on the next issue of Garden & Gun. There is constant excitement and a sweet buzz of anticipation from all involved. The entire staff has an energy that’s contagious. We are all part of the same mission of having you enjoy each issue we publish.
This blog offers another page in our development, and we’d love for you to write and tell us what you’re thinking. Go ahead–we know you’re dying to.
October 24, 2007 at 11:10 am
I am excited to see the holiday edition, however I hope we do not see the Biltmore. I hope it shows Washington DC @ Christmas and always CHS.
Also I hope to see a story on southern lawyers (most notably the ones who have won against phen-fen or big tobacco-both of which you could find in MS or very south FL) with their extravagant lifestyles but highlight the philanthropy and innovative investing they have done.
October 25, 2007 at 4:41 pm
Hey, Duvall, thanks for the hello over on GardenRant. This, despite my initial shall we say cynical review of this venture? But you must have read my “Garden&Gun, We Done You Wrong,” in which I recanted almost everything I’d said, so we’re on speaking terms. Great! We want to be part of your conversation, and hope you’ll stick around to be part of ours. And how about putting your blog on the home page so more people will see it? I’ll be interested to see how you incorporate a blog into your site – it’s pretty much uncharted territory for magazines. Good luck, y’all! Susan
November 6, 2007 at 11:44 am
G&G,
I was just having a daily chat with my mother when she mentioned y’alls magazine. She sent me a copy and I was highly impressed. My mother claims that “the magazine will change the face of the south!” Oh yes, she is quite right! Thank you for finally piecing together what I call southern hunting elegance!
February 8, 2008 at 9:43 pm
G&G,
You created this magazine just for me, right? I mean, I know you’re going around pretending to have other subscribers, but let’s get real for a minute.
After all, I grew up in Savannah, following my physician father to dove and quail hunts on nearby plantations.
Going to college in Alabama took me away from the low-country, but introduced me to the joys of riding hunter-jumpers. This year, if I’m lucky, I’ll foxhunt in Aiken for the first time.
As I type this, my beagle, Daisy, an eight month old rabbit dog, is curled at my feet. In the morning, we’ll join a local pack to test our mettle against the eastern cotton tail.
The pack belongs to my boyfriend, a South Carolinian and university professor, who, if he’s smart, will be rounding up a Ray Ellis or C. Ford Riley print for Valentine’s Day next week.
Okay, seriously, I realize that there are more people in your target audience than me and the Daisy here, but it feels like you produced your magazine just for us.
Well, maybe not entirely for me. For Valentines, I gave the South Carolina boyfriend a subscription to G&G. He’ll be thrilled.
So, thanks! Thanks for capturing this graceful, romantic, often-witty, and stylish slice of Southern outdoor life.
May you have a long and successful run.
-S
February 19, 2008 at 3:47 pm
I am a southern writer and thoroughly enjoyed the copy of G&G I read in the doctor’s office where I took my grandson for an appointment.
Do you have writer’s guidelines or do we just wing it? I have a couple of stories I would like to tell.
Best,
Bob Bass
Southern Freestyle
February 25, 2008 at 8:57 am
LOVE YOUR MAGAZINE!!!
Last Oct. I met photographers, photograghing Va. Hunt Week. I was wondering if that article was going to make it into an
issue and when that would be.
Thanks….
Sue Migliore
Pls. let me know……….