Garden & Gun

Staying Small

Seasoned hoteliers have seen just about everything. But even the most experienced concierge couldn’t have predicted 2020’s pandemic. In a testament to dogged and determined Southern hospitality, these five inns renovated, primped and spruced, or opened their doors for the first time despite every obstacle lobbed in their path (including, in one instance, a tornado). Whether it’s a bar studded with oyster shells at a historic hotel in Apalachicola, Florida, or pops of local art at a ten-suite inn in Nashville, the thoughtful touches at these little getaways prove that small can be full of

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