Welcome to the Good News Fridays segment! Each week here on Geek Alabama, Good News Fridays will feature something good, wholesome, positive, and overall something great. After a long and stressful week, we all need something good to read or watch on Fridays! Enjoy a heartwarming post below!
Daphne completely surprised us. We never expected so much history and culture tucked into a little town on the Eastern Shore. We started with a coffee at Cloud Mountain Coffee and wandered around getting our first impressions, a cute downtown, a string of restaurants, and a bar that instantly felt inviting. But first… lunch at the legendary East Shore Café. A Cajun sausage hoagie was calling my name, and it delivered. We sat outside a traditional Southern house with a sweet tea and a po’boy. It doesn’t get better than that.
We were supposed to leave Daphne after dinner, but something kept us there. We visited a beautiful contemporary style Catholic cathedral, then made our way to the bar we’d spotted earlier. Nothing could have prepared us for how steeped in history this street was, stories of the Trione family, the old outpost, and the Manci family legacy tied into every wall.
Inside Manci’s bar, we drank and learned about the old gas station where a dining room now sits and locals feast on fried bar classics. Above the bar hangs the largest Jim Beam decanter collection in the world, an original prototype Colt handgun, and even old road signs from England. Somehow it all fits. Somehow it all feels like Daphne.
Our bartender, who had lost everything in a South Florida hurricane before relocating here, told us her story of rebuilding, finding community, and meeting her husband. It reminded us that small towns are built from people, not just buildings.
Daphne is a great little place. One that deserves to be talked about and visited far more often. And one the people of Daphne should be very proud of.
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