Fannie Flagg recently wrote about her family’s years running a beachfront malt shop in Gulf Shores's early days. In Southern_Living, Flagg makes it easy to see how life with one of the area’s “pioneer families” left an impression. More:
Really, what mother wouldn’t drop a plate of shrimp on someone if she happened to catch sight of an archer shooting at a balloon held in her young daughter’s teeth?
It’s certainly a novel-worthy premise: A Birmingham man wins ownership of a coastal café in a poker game. Without ever taking a look at the place, he pulls up stakes and moves his young family to the mostly wild Alabama coast, where they find they have a lot of work to do before their new home will be ready for habitation, let alone for business..
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