City Portrait in Garden & Gun Magazine

[quote="Robin Garr"]From the "About Us" page:

Garden & Gun is a Southern lifestyle magazine that's all about the magic of the new South – the sporting culture, the food, the music, the art, the literature, the people, and the ideas. It espouses a strong conservation ethic that grows out of its connection to the land, and it reveals the beauty of the South.

All sorts of snark comes to mind, but I think I'll leave it alone.

Robin,

All snark aside - having read the magazine, they do a great job in all those areas. But as a marketing person, I just couldn't believe they went with that name ( and in HUGE letters on the cover). I almost didn't pick it up the first time I saw it- presupposing the content...

Deb

The original Garden and Gun was a dance club in Charleston in the 1970's. I was living in Charleston when the magazine launched and from what I understood, the founders like the name and decided to use it for the title.

[Robin Garr]

Charleston is certainly Southern, but is a one-off kind of place. Even in SC, Charleston is in its own world.

I agree. and would add Savannah as a somewhat similar-only-different model. (For that matter, I'd argue that Louisville is in its own world from the rest of Kentucky, but that's a different story.)

Sounds great! Good work by Pableaux (except maybe for his failure to keep that 4SL thang quiet).

I've got to ask, though: GARDEN and GUN!?

Who in the hell is the target demographic for that magazine?

I have a garden, more or less, and I have a gun, more or less. It's kind of a frankengun from back when the british still kind of controlled india though, and I can't actually get ammo for it, so I dunno if that counts. I need to get out and weed the area that my herbs are though. meh, yardwork.

Besides, they did an article on Tupelo Honey, and I am all about the honey.

Sounds great! Good work by Pableaux (except maybe for his failure to keep that 4SL thang quiet).

I've got to ask, though: GARDEN and GUN!?

Who in the hell is the target demographic for that magazine?

I have a garden, more or less, and I have a gun, more or less. It's kind of a frankengun from back when the british still kind of controlled india though, and I can't actually get ammo for it, so I dunno if that counts. I need to get out and weed the area that my herbs are though. meh, yardwork.

Besides, they did an article on Tupelo Honey, and I am all about the honey.

Love that Tupelo Honey! We brought some back from Destin last year and loved it so much that this year, we made a special trip back to the same farmstand ( run by the 80 year old owner). This time bought 3 pints!

Deb