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Resurrecting Slave Cabins at Montpelier (7:00 version)

From: Tanner Latham
Series: Authentic South

Caption: New cabin in foreground and Montpelier in the background., Credit: Kelley Libby

For years, at historic plantation sites across the South, the focus was on the big house and not on the slave cabins. But as contributor Kelley Lib...

Bought by WTJU and WABE

Hungarian Blues (7:00 version)

From: Tanner Latham
Series: Authentic South

Caption: Hungarian-born Blues musician Little G Weevil., Credit: Tanner Latham

Little G Weevil is a Hungarian-born Blues musician living in Kennesaw, Georgia. When he talks, you know he had to come from Budapest. But when he s...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WABE

Resurrecting Slave Cabins at Montpelier

From: Tanner Latham
Series: Authentic South

Caption: The slave cabin in the foreground with Montpelier in the background., Credit: Kelley Libby

For years, at historic plantation sites across the South, the focus was on the big house and not on the slave cabins. But cabins like that are now ...

Bought by PRX Remix

Chef Vivian Howard

From: Tanner Latham
Series: Authentic South

Vivian Howard is the chef at Chef and the Farmer in the small Eastern North Carolina town of Kinston. She also "co-stars" with her husband Ben Knig...

Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting and Georgia Public Broadcasting

Southern Living's Hunter Lewis

From: Tanner Latham
Series: Authentic South

Caption: Hunter Lewis, Credit: Tanner Latham

Hunter Lewis is the executive editor at Southern Living magazine. Before that, he had stints at the publications Bon Appetit and Saveur. In this ep...

Bought by Troy Public Radio

To Eat a Pig, Pt. 2

From: Tanner Latham
Series: Authentic South

Caption: Sean Kelley shouldering his slaughtered pig Dinner., Credit: Charlene Dy

In the previous episode, we met Sean Kelley, a writer who set out to raise a couple of pigs for the purpose of butchering them himself. He was so a...

Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting and Troy Public Radio

To Eat a Pig, Pt. 1

From: Tanner Latham
Series: Authentic South

Caption: Journalist Sean Kelley, Credit: Tanner Latham

Sean Kelley is a journalist, and in this show, he begins telling us about raising a couple of pigs so that he could slaughter them and eat them and...

Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting and Troy Public Radio

Chef Hugh Acheson

From: Tanner Latham
Series: Authentic South

Athens, Ga.-based Chef Hugh Acheson is one of the most celebrated and influential chefs in the country. The James Beard Award winner and Top Chef s...

Bought by WABE, Troy Public Radio, and Georgia Public Broadcasting

The Newest New South

From: Tanner Latham
Series: Authentic South

Caption: Historian Tom Hanchett at a booth at El Pulgarcito. , Credit: Tanner Latham

Charlotte, North Carolina-based historian Tom Hanchett speaks about the ever-evolving South, especially as it relates to food, from a booth in El P...

Bought by Troy Public Radio and Georgia Public Broadcasting

Mastering the Art of Southern Cooking

From: Tanner Latham
Series: Authentic South

Caption: Cookbook author Cynthia Graubart, Credit: Tanner Latham

Cynthia Graubart attained culinary celebrity status last year when she won a James Beard Award for the cookbook she co-wrote with famed Southern au...

Bought by Troy Public Radio and Georgia Public Broadcasting

Remembering Eudora Welty

From: Tanner Latham
Series: Authentic South

Caption: Eudora Welty, New Haven, CT, 1974, Credit: William Ferris

Eudora Welty was one of the South’s most beloved writers, and her fiction is still a study in detail and dialogue and wit. Her settings were often ...

Bought by Troy Public Radio and Georgia Public Broadcasting

Shenandoah Valley Shape Note Singers

From: Tanner Latham
Series: Authentic South

Caption: Cross Keys Ruritan Hall, Harrisonburg, VA, Credit: Sarah Cumming

Contributor Kelley Libby visits a shape note sing event in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Sometimes this style of singing is referred to as Sac...

Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting, Troy Public Radio, Georgia Public Broadcasting, and PRX Remix

Bestselling Novelist Cassandra King

From: Tanner Latham
Series: Authentic South

Caption: Cassandra King, Credit: Tanner Latham

Bestselling novelist Cassandra King talks about her new book Moonrise as well as her writing relationship with her husband, famous author Pat Conro...

Bought by Troy Public Radio and Georgia Public Broadcasting

Southern Folklorist Bill Ferris

From: Tanner Latham
Series: Authentic South

Caption: The Storied South , Credit: Bill Ferris

Preeminent Southern folklorist Bill Ferris has spent the last 40 years documenting the South in print, photography and film. His latest book, The S...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, Georgia Public Broadcasting, and PRX Remix

Knoxville's Miss Biscuit

From: Tanner Latham
Series: Authentic South

Caption: Liz Barr, reigning Miss Biscuit, Credit: Tanner Latham

One of the highlights of Knoxville’s International Biscuit Festival is the Mr. & Miss Biscuit Pageant. This piece profiles Liz Barr, the reigning M...

Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting, Troy Public Radio, Georgia Public Broadcasting, and PRX Remix

Singer-Songwriter Josh Vasa

From: Tanner Latham
Series: Authentic South

Birmingham, Alabama, singer-songwriter Josh Vasa of the band Sanyasi talks about his Indian heritage, writing, and the value of cheesy lyrics.

Bought by Troy Public Radio, Georgia Public Broadcasting, and PRX Remix

Indian Pass Raw Bar

From: Tanner Latham
Series: Authentic South

The Indian Pass Raw Bar is the anchor of the tiny community of Indian Pass in the Florida panhandle. It’s an institution in this part of the world ...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, Troy Public Radio, Georgia Public Broadcasting, and PRX Remix

Southern Storyteller Les Thomas

From: Tanner Latham
Series: Authentic South

Caption: Les Thomas, legendary travel writer and storyteller, Credit: Tanner Latham

Les Thomas wrote his way across the South. His travel writing, for Texas newspapers, Southern Living magazine and beyond, has spanned over 45 year...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, Georgia Public Broadcasting, and PRX Remix

To Teach To Learn To Eat

From: Tanner Latham
Series: Authentic South

Caption: Chef Roscoe Hall, Credit: Tanner Latham

In our food-obsessed culture, we likely never think about what's on the menu at an eating disorder clinic. A couple of gourmet chefs bring their in...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, Georgia Public Broadcasting, and PRX Remix

Happiness Found at Happy Hollow Gift Shop

From: Tanner Latham
Series: Authentic South

Caption: Babara Nottingham, Credit: Tanner Latham

Barbara Nottingham has been running the Happy Hollow Gift Shop in Medicine Park, Oklahoma, for almost 40 years. Its live rattlesnakes and abundance...

Bought by KOSU, Troy Public Radio, Georgia Public Broadcasting, and PRX Remix

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