Your guide to exploring the Southeast
Step back into history, sample delicious regional cuisine, shop local artists, relax in unique accommodations—and this is just a sampling. The Southeast is a special place, filled with major attractions and off-the-path vacation jewels. Here are more ideas for friendly fun and entertainment in this storied region.

From Egypt to Arkansas
The biggest exhibition ever in Arkansas—World of the Pharaohs: Treasures of Egypt Revealed—explores 3,000 years of Egyptian history through unique art and artifacts.

Organized by the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the exhibition continues through July 5, 2010, at the Arkansas Arts Center in Little Rock.

Guest curator for the exhibition is William H. Peck, an internationally recognized Egyptologist and art historian. Peck, collaborating with Arkansas Arts Center Curator Joseph Lamp, developed the thematic arrangement of the exhibition, which reveals the life and history of ancient Egypt through its people, rulers, and religion.

Among the treasures on display are amulets, jewelry, furnishings, stone vessels, statues, art, funerary artifacts, mummies, and an elegant colossus of Ramses the Great—all chosen to display the rich, diverse characteristics of one of the world’s greatest civilizations.

To purchase tickets, contact the Arkansas Arts Center at 501-372-4000 or visit arkarts.com.

Springtime in Savannah!
It’s springtime in Savannah—the azaleas are in bloom, the weather is warming up, and the Coastal Cuisine is ready for eating! Much like the temperatures, events are heating up as well with the Savannah St. Patrick’s Day Celebration and Parade—the largest St. Patrick’s Day Celebration in the South! The sounds of the Savannah Music Festival, Georgia’s biggest musical arts festival, fill the air with jazz, blues, classical, gospel, and other styles of American and international music. There are home and garden tours galore in Savannah this spring with the 75th Savannah Tour of Homes and Gardens and the Garden Club of Savannah 35th Annual Tour of Hidden Gardens. The world will be watching Savannah as the 2010 Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf Tournament returns to The Club at Savannah Harbor. For more information about all of these events and more, please go to VisitSavannah.com.

Memory Making in Pigeon Forge
Children grow up so fast. One minute they’re babies, then toddlers, then teens—the time simply slips away. This is the year to create happy memories with your family in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, the center of fun in the Smokies—because there comes a time when kids also graduate from vacation. For more information, visit MyPigeonForge.com.

Experience Ridgeland
Ridgeland, Mississippi’s fresh approach to life offers a menu of choices in shopping, lodging, dining, and fun. Art abounds as chefs teach students how to create culinary masterpieces at our newly opened Viking Cooking School. The Mississippi Craft Center, on the Natchez Trace Parkway, showcases and sells the works of 140 artisans. This and more has helped Ridgeland, Mississippi grow from a small artist colony to a premier shopping destination with numerous restaurants and quality accommodations. For more information, go to visitridgeland.com or call 800-468-6078.

Produced in cooperation with the Southeast Tourism Society, an organization dedicated to the marketing and promotion of travel and the travel industry within our twelve-member Southeastern States of AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV. Visit our Web site at: EscapetotheSoutheast.com.