This plush marmalade cat welcomes you to the Mountain View Inn in Mentone, AL and protects the Southern Living magazines. (Tamara Ikenberg/tikenberg@al.com) f you've never watched the sun dip down ...

MENTONE, Alabama - Every now and then, when the stress piles up and the traffic and business become a bit much, the city folks seek an escape. It is sometimes easy to forget there is a town up on a ...