Alabama

For Grigsby, who's logged almost a million miles behind the wheel, driving a school bus is a family tradition.

Easter is remembered in an array of colors, from new purple dresses, yellow bonnets and black patent-leather shoes to multicolored eggs hidden in tufts of green grass and fragrant white lilies surrounding the Sunday church altar.

On a rainy morning in Nashville, Tenn., the Oak Ridge Boys’ idling tour bus is parked outside the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, where they’re scheduled to sing a little later.

Actor-comedian George Lindsey stands at center court in the gymnasium of Wilson High School in Florence, Ala., talking to several hundred students about his acting career during a visit back to his hometown.

The Blind Boys of Alabama represent one of the most enduring partnerships in American music history, and one that involved overcoming enormous physical and racial obstacles.

Part-time cowboys fulfill rodeo dreams

Patrolling our borders by land, sea and air, with foreward by Homeland Security Chief Tom Ridge

A safe haven for 1,400 children

This year’s 10 family getaways include peaceful state parks, a historic mining town-turned-artist colony, a space travel attraction, and the place where it all started for America nearly 400 years ago.

Although McGrew has a journalism degree from the University of Alabama and had worked for years as a freelance photographer for Fortune 500 companies, New York fashion designers, and newspapers, he’d left to pursue another interest: truck driving.

Behind the Faces Another Battle Is Finally Being Won.

America’s population shifted away from metropolitan centers in the last decade three times faster than during the previous 10 years, and hometowns such as Mount Vernon, Ohio, are one of the reasons why.