I’ve launched this podcast to share those stories that might surprise you. Like the museum devoted to ventriloquism in Kentucky or the “slug burgers” eaten by Elvis in Mississippi. There are so many misconceptions about this part of the world.
Some are true while others aren’t. But one thing is certain: the South is more than one story. I hope you’ll tune in for future episodes about offbeat attractions, strange histories, and unusual customs in Alabama, Georgia, the Carolinas, and beyond. Thanks for listening!
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Episode Guide
Season 1
101 Cassadaga, Florida: I Ain’t Afraid of No Ghosts
- Visiting the Spiritualist Colony of Cassadaga
- Cassadaga Spiritualist Camp official website
- Mary Hayes website
- Cassadaga Hotel website
- “Seance City,” The Bitter Southerner
102 Hot Springs, Arkansas: Gangster’s Paradise
- Visit Hot Springs
- Weekend Guide to Hot Springs
- The Gangster Museum of America
- The Ohio Club
- Maxine’s
- Bathhouse Row
- Mountain Valley Spring Water
- Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster– book on Eunice Carter and Lucky Luciano
- Mafia podcast– two episodes on Lucky Luciano
103 North Carolina Coast: Pirate’s Life for Me
- Queen Anne’s Revenge Lab
- Historic Bath
- Walk in Blackbeard’s Footsteps in North Carolina, Visit NC
- 12 Places to Follow in Blackbeard’s Footsteps, Fodor’s
- Blackbeard’s Booty: Pirate Ship Yields Medical Supplies, Live Science
104 Oak Ridge, Tennessee: Secret City
- Manhattan Project National Historical Park
- Explore Oak Ridge
- American Museum of Science and Energy
- The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II
- The Manhattan Project, Direct Current Podcast from US Department of Energy
- Atomic Research Casts Shadow on Tennessee Town, Chicago Tribune
- Oak Ridge Superfund Site– EPA
- Oak Ridge: A look into the Superfund site’s environmental cleanup, WBIR Knoxville
- Civilian Displacement: Oak Ridge, TN, Atomic Heritage Foundation
- The photography of Ed Westcott
105 Angola, Louisiana: Alcatraz of the South
- Angola Prison Museum
- Angola Rodeo
- Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, 64 Parishes
- “The Farm” documentary (1997), also sequels “Return to the Farm,” and “The Farm: Ten Down”
- Louisiana State Penitentiary Hosts a Rodeo for Its Inmates, Vice
- Dead Man Walking: The Eyewitness Account Of The Death Penalty That Sparked a National Debate, Sister Helen Prejean
- American Prison: A Reporter’s Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment, Shane Bauer
- God of the Rodeo: The Quest for Redemption in Louisiana’s Angola Prison, Daniel Bergner
- “Who made Billy Graham’s casket?” The Charlotte Observer
- The Sentencing Project
Season 2
201 New Echota, Georgia: The Beginning and The End
- The Cherokee Nation: The Story of New Echota, Georgia State Parks video
- The Treaty That Forced the Cherokee People from Their Homelands Goes on View, Smithsonian
- Cherokee Nation History, Cherokee.org
- The Bungled Treaty of New Echota: The Failure of Cherokee Removal, 1836-1838, The Georgia Historical Quarterly
- What Remains of Bears Ears, Washington Post
- This Land– This incredible podcast starts with the assassination of John Ridge and places it alongside a modern-day crime.
- Native American Landmarks of Georgia
- Following the Trail of Tears
202: Yemassee, South Carolina: Welcome to the Kingdom
- Against the Odds, A 40-Year Old West African Village in South Carolina Has Thrived, Atlas Obscura
- An Oral History of the West African Village That Has Been in South Carolina for Four Decades, Vice
- Leaving the United States: The Black Nationalist Themes of Orisha-Vodu, JStor
- The Kingdom of Oyotunji, The Pluralism Project at Harvard University
- Oyotunji Kingdom website
203: Gulf Shores, Alabama: Sweet Home Flora Bama
- 13 things you might not know about the Flora-Bama, AL.com
- The Iconic American Bar That Becomes a Church on Sundays, Thrillist
- Flora-Bama
204: Tupelo, Mississippi: Whole Lotta Shakin
205: Harrodsburg, Kentucky: The Village
- Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill
- National Park Service website
- Shakers, Encyclopedia Brittanica
- There Are Now Only Two Living Members of the Shaker Faith, Mental Floss
