Sometimes the best discoveries are the ones hiding in plain sight, like finding out your neighbor makes award-winning barbecue or that your dentist moonlights as a jazz pianist.
Fairhope’s main street is one of those revelations that makes you wonder how you’ve been living in Alabama without knowing about this place, like discovering there’s been a secret room in your house all along.
This charming town on Mobile Bay’s eastern shore has a main street that doesn’t just bloom with flowers—it practically explodes with them, as if someone made a bet with a botanist and everyone won.
The moment you turn onto Fairhope Avenue, you’ll notice something different about this place, something that sets it apart from the usual Southern downtown that’s been strip-malled into submission…