Festival of Flowers, March 8-10

MOBILE – This award-winning festival will celebrate its 31st year in downtown Mobile’s Cathedral Square showcasing horticultural displays created by the Mobile area’s best teams of florists, nurseries, landscapers, designers and artists. Enjoy live music, outdoor seminars and select vendors. Special events…

Arts and Crafts Festival, March 15-17

FAIRHOPEhttp://www.fairhopeartsandcraftsfestival.com – For more than 70 years, the flower-lined streets of Fairhope have proudly hosted this festival. During this three-day event from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m., the population of 22,000 swells to nearly 300,000 as the downtown streets come alive with creativity,…

Spring Farm Day, March 16

DOTHAN – Experience life on a Wiregrass farm in the 1890s. Watch plowing with horses and mules, spring planting, arts and crafts, pottery, textile work and a lawn mower pull.  10 a.m. until 4 p.m. $10 for adults; $8 for seniors and military and $6 for children. http://www.landmarkparkdothan.com    

American Made Exhibit, March 22

HUNTSVILLE – On display until June 16th, American Made surveys two centuries of American creativity. The exhibition begins with Colonial-era portraits by masters, such as Benjamin West, Thomas Sully and Sarah Miriam Peale and then moves on to highlight the development of mid-19th-century landscape painting.…

Spring Pilgrimage, April 4-7

EUFAULA – Eufaula boasts more than 700 structures listed on the National Historic Register. The city’s main street, Eufaula Avenue, lined with dogwood, magnolias and oaks, is flanked by antebellum mansions that “rise like ornate wedding cakes,” as described by Alabama Tourism director Lee Sentell, author of…

Smoke on the Falls, April 12-13

GADSDEN – For 15 years professional and backyard barbecue pit teams from all over Alabama, Georgia, Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Michigan, Mississippi, Texas, Maryland, North Carolina, Indiana, Virginia and West Virginia compete at the Noccalula Falls Campground. Enjoy live music, kid’s activities and more…