Elizabeth Hutchison Hicklin
Elizabeth Hutchison Hicklin is a Garden & Gun contributing editor and a full-time freelance writer covering hospitality and travel, arts and culture, and design. An obsessive reader and a wannabe baker, she recently left Nashville to return home to Charleston, South Carolina, where she lives with her husband, their twins, and an irrepressible golden retriever.
Travel
Summer is in session: Here are worthy experiences in candle-making, fly fishing, cooking, gardening, and more
Food & Drink
With bold flavors and neighborhood vibes, the Holy City’s smallest restaurants are some of its biggest culinary draws
Home & Garden
In Music City’s Berry Hill neighborhood, an award-winning songwriter and a team of interior designers created a haven for creativity
Homeplace
A pair of equestrians take the rainbow for a ride at this pastoral retreat
2025 Bucket List
Prince’s still scorches in Nashville
2025 Bucket List
A bucolic bastion of craft and tradition
2025 Bucket List
And support small businesses that need it most
Travel
Candy-striped boat awnings, stone crab claws in silver champagne buckets, and bougainvillea everywhere—Bahamas-based interior designer and legendary hostess Amanda Lindroth puts on a tropical holiday to remember
Travel
“Above all, your presence shows that the outside world cares”
Arts & Culture
Tips on attire, tailgate etiquette, and more from a lifelong college football fan
Travel
Escape the crowds at the nation’s busiest national park and explore one of these less-traveled trails
Travel
A new boutique hotel in North Carolina’s High Country invites guests to reconnect with the landscape and each other
Travel
These small-town mercantiles offer up an extra scoop of nostalgia along with sugar, milk, the occasional cast-iron skillet or pallet of lumber—and everything in between
Home & Garden
Native plants color the canvas for a Lowcountry artist and landscape architect
Travel
At the confluence of three Tennessee rivers, this rugged park delivers scenic views, impressive waterfalls, and serene swimming holes as well as world-class fishing and kayaking
Arts & Culture
With each scan and brushstroke, a detail-oriented conservator proves that the past still matters
Homeplace
Inside and out, the nineteenth-century home embraces intimate and relaxed design
Travel
How a Tennessee couple is leading the longstanding North Carolina equestrian getaway into the twenty-first century
Food & Drink
The Oliphants have upheld the tradition—and downed countless biscuits—through births, deaths, and a pandemic