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City Farmhouse Pop-Up Fair: Stephanie & Katie's Best Picks
City Farmhouse Pop-Up Fair: Stephanie & Katie's Best Picks

Welcome to West Tennessee, City Farmhouse Pop-Up Fair shoppers! We're so glad to have you. If you're taking a few days to peruse the fair but also want to check out all the fun we have here in Medina and Jackson while you're in town, check out some of our best local picks from Our Jackson Home Editor-in-Chief, Katie Howerton, and White Oak Farms owner, Stephanie Alexander, featuring our favorite restaurants, boutiques, and more.

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GuidesKatie HowertonJackson TN, Tennessee, Stephanie Alexander, Katie Howerton, tourism, City Farmhouse, White Oak Farms, Picasso Bistro & Pizzeria, food, local restaurant, Main Street Grill, Medina TN, entertainment, Dumplin's, The Chow Wagon, Chandelier Café & Catering, Rhode's Diner, ComeUnity Café, theLOCAL, downtown Jackson, Rock'n Dough Pizza and Brew Co., Medina Donuts, Modero Coffee Roasters, Creamers
Day Trip: West Tennessee Delta Heritage Center
Day Trip: West Tennessee Delta Heritage Center

Walt Disney World, Gulf Shores, Baton Rouge, France, the Bahamas, the Yucatan; these are places we go to retreat from the normalcy of life. These are the destinations of our vacations, our free week off from work to do what we want. Yet retreating to something different doesn’t have to mean venturing beyond state lines. As native West Tennesseans, we forget the vast culture and history that surrounds us.

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StoriesSeth HardenJackson TN, Tennessee, Seth Harden, Our Jackson Home: The Magazine, Vol. 2 Issue 4, vacation, travel, tourism, West Tennessee, Brownsville TN, history, heritage, West Tennessee Delta Heritage Center, Tina Turner, music, Americana Music Triangle, Elvis Presley, "Sleepy" John Estes, Sonia Outlaw-Clark, museum, Cotton Museum, cotton, Felsenthal Lincoln Collection, Abraham Lincoln, Hatch River, Hatch River Museum, nature, Uncle Luther, John Sawhill, Nature Conservancy, Anna Mae Bullock, Victor Records, Ripley TN, blues, Haywood County, Flagg Grove School, poverty, Cotton Junction Trail, Sleepy John Country Blues Jam, Exit 56 Blues Fest, Summer Jam Music Fest, Celtic Music Fest, Hatchie River, Hatchie Birdfest, Tina Turner Heritage Day, Tourism Guide 2020
The Escape Artist
The Escape Artist

Ordinary guys don’t spend too much time thinking about the best escape route out of a restaurant or a home or out of town. And while most people I know aren’t worried about the trackability of their IP addresses or burner phones or whether or not they’ve been recorded on too many security cameras in public, that’s not the case for Lee Wilson. But then again, Lee isn’t exactly having an ordinary moment.

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StoriesJosh GarciaJackson TN, Tennessee, Josh Garcia, Hunted, CBS, TV, television, Lee Wilson, Hilmar Skagfield, Jackson Escape Rooms, reality TV, Union University, local business, entrepreneur, theCO, Jared Dauenhauer, CO.STARTERS, RIFA, Murfreesboro Escape Rooms, Murfreesboro TN, Waco Escape Rooms, Waco TX, tornado, Beth Wilson, competition, City Fellowship Baptist Church, community, church, Food For All, Best of 2017, tourism
Day Trip: Discovery Park of America
Day Trip: Discovery Park of America

An expansive flock of slate grey clouds span the sky as I drive along the narrow highway. The landscape rolls beside me, before me. The hills and subtle ridge lines guide the highway that bears my passage. Rural fields are dotted with gigantic cotton gins, dilapidated barns. Small colonies of trailers and rented houses populate gravel side roads, sprouting like branches from the main highway. I am northward bound, driving into an increasingly brisk wind.

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EssaysGuest ContributorJackson TN, Tennessee, Sam Tilleros, Kristi Woody, Discovery Park of America, Our Jackson Home: The Magazine, Vol. 2 Issue 1, West Tennessee, tourism, Union City TN, Robert Kirkland, Kirkland's, Jenny Kirkland, park, dinosaurs, history, Davy Crockett, Reelfoot Lake, aquarium, Thomas Tilleros, education, family, kids, children, fun, Obion County, Gibson County, Obion River, Tourism Guide 2020
Southern Safari
Southern Safari

After you crank your car down from the sixty-five miles-per-hour speed limit, you’ll make a turn onto a shaded, gravel road, and if you are lucky you’ll catch your first glimpse of the exotic: radiant peacocks, enormous camels, ancient buffalo, and vibrant zebras. In a way, you will feel that you have just stepped into a new world filled with wonder and excitement. And you’ve only just pulled in. Tennessee’s only drive-through safari park is truly a captivating place.

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StoriesSeth HardenJackson TN, Tennessee, West Tennessee, Alamo TN, Tennessee Safari Park, safari, park, animals, Seth Harden, Katie Howerton, TCAT, Tennessee College of Applied Technology, John Conley, tourism, peacocks, camels, buffalo, zebra, endangered species, Vol. 2 Issue 1, zoo, Africa, Asia, Europe, kangaroos, Australia, wildebeests, bison, fallow deer, pot belly pig, drive-through, giraffe, exotic, Yellowstone National Park, antelope, Père David’s deer, China, Boxer Rebellion, San Diego Zoo, bontebok, ellipsis waterbuck, scimitar oryx, extinct, gemsbok, wildlife, nature, conservation, preservation, children, kids, education, addax, dama gazelle, pygmy hippo, Highway 412, Tourism Guide 2020