Baggage + Bass + Birdies = BIG TIME! Any time of year is the right time to experience our southern story. Two new friendly hotels want to be your home away from home. Mark these off from our “Bucket List”: Shopping Unclaimed Baggage; Playing on the Tennessee River & Goose Pond Colony; Exploring 10,000 years of human history at Russell Cave National Monument or 150 years of Civil War history are only a sample of the allure in the Northeast corner of Alabama.