S4 E1 | The Magic of Word of South and Cascades Park History
Welcome back to Season 4 of Overeducated and Underemployed! To kick off the new season, we are diving deep into the heartbeat of Tallahassee’s cultural scene: the Word of South Music, Arts, and Literature Festival. In this episode, we chart the fascinating, sometimes dark, and deeply resilient hi...
The Jewish South
Chuck Reece previews a new Salvation South Deluxe episode on the Jewish South. From Savannah and Charleston to the wider region, the episode—with historians Marcie Cohen Ferris and Shari Rabin—traces Jewish Southern history and provides a vivid look at how one community helped shape the American ...
Deluxe: The Price of Admission
They were in Charleston before the colony had a charter. They wore Confederate gray. They marched with mobs that overturned Black governments after the war. They were also lynched in Marietta and bombed in Atlanta and Jackson. In this special episode of Salvation South Deluxe, Chuck Reece sits be...
I Am What I Am
What does a cartoon sailor have to do with Pride Month? More than you might think. In this commentary, Chuck Reece traces a line from Popeye’s stubborn self-acceptance to the urgent realities facing LGBTQ+ young people today—and to the power of Pride celebrations in the South, where the simple ac...
Charles’ School Years
In the same storage bin as his parents' World War II letters, Chuck Reece found the scrapbook his mother ordered before he started the first grade in 1967. As thousands of Southern children head into first grade, he considers the one box on that page he has never quite finished checking.
The Harp God Gave You
The Sacred Harp, the shape-note hymnal published in west Georgia in 1844, got its first revision in thirty-four years—and more than seven hundred singers showed up in Atlanta to christen it. Chuck Reece explains why a book older than his great-grandparents keeps outliving its own obituaries, and ...
Deluxe: Barbecue in the South Is a Mouthful
Salvation South Deluxe host Chuck Reece sits down with Jim Auchmutey, author of Smokelore, to argue about barbecue sauce—and to trace the deeper, harder story of who really built the tradition Southerners of every color now claim as their own.
A World Without Dolly Parton
Salvation South editor Chuck Reece reflects on the life of the late Dolly Parton.
A World Without Dolly
Dolly Parton’s death leaves a world of listeners grieving not only a singular singer and songwriter, but also a woman whose generosity, humor, and acceptance made people feel seen.
Chuck Reece remembers the night he and three underage friends talked their way into Atlanta’s Great Southeast Music ...
Trout from Turniptown Creek
Wendell Berry spent a lifetime writing about land, work, community, and the moral obligations we inherit from the places that shape us. In this commentary, Salvation South editor Chuck Reece remembers a childhood creek in North Georgia, a conversation with farmer Will Harris, and Berry’s enduring...
