Revisit: Boyce Upholt - The Great River
Boyce Upholt is a “nature critic” and author whose writing explores the relationship between humans and the natural world, especially in the U.S. South. Originally from Connecticut, Upholt moved to the Mississippi Delta in 2009, where he discovered an unexpected wilderness amid an agricultural em...
Southern Living 12/31/2025 - The Triumph of Lulu Gribbin, and more - Read by Joyce Davis - AIRSLA
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The Triumph of Lulu Gribbin by Boyce Upholt--How a teenage girl from Mountain Brook, Alabama, turned tragedy into purpose.
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Sea Change Live: The Future of Seafood
Sea Change travels to the Walter Anderson Museum of Art in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, for a lively live panel discussion about the future of seafood.
For more than a century, the Gulf seafood industry has shaped towns, cultures, and identities along the coast. Yet, if you talk to almost anyone ...
Sea Change Live: The Future of Seafood
For more than a century, the Gulf seafood industry has shaped towns, cultures, and identities along the coast. Yet, if you talk to almost anyone who works on the water, they’ll tell you the Gulf seafood story has changed more in the last 30 years than the hundred years before that. If you care ab...
Boyce Upholt was how featured guest
Boyce Upholt, a “nature critic,” is the author of The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi, the 2024 nonfiction of the Willie Morris Award for Southern Writing. He is the founder of Southlands, a forthcoming magazine about Southern nature.Also, Vinny Olsziewski guest hosted on ...
The deep and tangled history of the Mississippi River with Boyce Upholt | Episode 4
In this episode of Carrying the Fire, host Hal Herring sits down with New Orleans-based journalist and author Boyce Upholt. Boyce is the author of The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi, which Amazon calls, “Rich and powerful… a startling account of what happens when we try ...
How The Mississippi Built America And Keeps Rebuilding It
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The Mississippi looks familiar on a map, but it gets weird fast when you stop treating it like a single line and start treating it like a living system. I’m joined by writer and nature critic Boyce Upholt boyceupholt, author of The Great River: The Making...
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White South Africans are quietly reshaping labor in the Mississippi Delta, and the story is far more complicated than the headlines suggest. In this episode, Boyce Upholt returns to untangle the history, economics, and racial fault lines behind his New Yorker reporting, revealing why these worker...
An Ancient Way to Survive Floods: Life on Germany’s Hallig Islands
For thousands of years, Indigenous communities along the Mississippi River and its tributaries built earthen mounds. Some complex constructions rose 8 stories high. These mounds were built for spiritual and religious reasons and also used as a refuge from floods. Thousands of miles away, on a st...
