Description: The Georgia Loan and Trust Company. "Southernair Dream Homes: Your Personalized Book of Home Planning". Personal caption inside front cover regarding Jack Stewart's service and that he did the renderings for the booklet.

In celebration of Southern Living's 50th anniversary, this keepsake issue is full of decorating and design ideas for creating timeless Southern homes. We take readers on a tour of our all-time best Idea Houses, and share the most inspiring and beautiful rooms and spaces we've published in 50 years.

The American daughter of Egyptian Jewish immigrants journeys in search of belonging from Brazil to New Orleans and beyond—includes recipes and photos! Born to Egyptian Sephardic Jews who fled to the United States after the Arab-Israeli war of 1948, Joyce Zonana spent her childhood in Brooklyn. But her experience of Jewish culture was very different from that of the other children she knew, from the foods they ate to the language they spoke. As she struggled to find a sense of inclusion, never feeling completely American or completely Egyptian, a childhood trip to Brazil became the basis for a lifelong quest to find her place in the world. Meeting members of her extended family who had migrated to Brazil was one step in discovering the kind of life she might have lived in Egypt, and exploring the woman she was becoming. Through travels that ranged from Cairo to Oklahoma and finally New Orleans in the shadow of Katrina, and including an evocative exploration of the way food varies from culture to culture, this is a “frank, spirited memoir of identity from a Brooklyn-raised, Egyptian-born Jewish feminist.” (Kirkus Reviews) “Zonana makes every human encounter lively” —Booklist

More than 300 photographs of the work of leading custom home architects and builders in Miami, Boca Raton, Palm Beach, and Jupiter.

Build an elegant southern-style home with all of the detail and charm of gracious living. Straight from the nation's leading hands-on home improvement magazine, the Family Handyman Home Designs of the South presents over 300 of the most popular southern-style designs -- including 75 brand-new designs -- featuring classic southern touches such as wraparound porches, sweeping staircases, and more. Detailed floor plans and illustrations lay out the total living area, with room-by-room square-foot dimensions -- plus a special section that features 40 sheds and garages. Included, too, are crucial facts about wall framing, foundation, and price code. Each plan includes a toll-free number for ordering professional blueprints. Showcasing the finest work from North America's premier design firms, this is an idea-filled and hard-working resource to match every lifestyle and budget. Book jacket.