In pet stores around the globe, customers can find for sale a bright blue crayfish that is supposedly endemic to Florida. Its abnormally bright color prompted a surprisingly lengthy search to find one in the wild. After reaching out to several crayfish experts, we realized that a huge mystery lurked behind this tiny blue creature. Lindsey Eckert joins us for the investigation.

Learn more about this episode at www.aboutsouthpodcast.com.

| Co-Producers: Gina Caison & Kelly Vines |
| Music: Brian Horton | www.brianhorton.com |

Brand New Day

S01 Episode 1: The Crayfish Blues

Over the last twenty years, we’ve seen a dramatic increase in southern hip_hop artists; however, there are several distinctly southern artists who are not necessarily considered in conversations about southern musical traditions. We sit down with Scott Heath, a scholar of African American literature and culture, to talk about the southern inflections of neosoul music. We also discuss soul artists Ray Charles, James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Al Green, and Nina Simone, and we listen to music by Taylor Swift, Outkast, James Brown, Erykah Badu, and Maceo Parker in order to investigate the qualities that make a sound “southern.”  

Learn more about this episode at www.aboutsouthpodcast.com.

| Co-Producers: Gina Caison & Kelly Vines |
| Music: Brian Horton | www.brianhorton.com |

S01 Episode 3: Southern Souls

While working as a street hustler and fortune teller in 1930s New York, Eddie Owens Martin fell ill and had his first vision of Pasaquan. When his mother died in 1957, Eddie moved back to Buena Vista, Georgia, changed his name to St. EOM, and began building Pasaquan, a seven-acre site with over 900 feet of painted masonry walls. The site is currently being renovated, and this week, we talked with site director Michael McFalls about St. EOM and his Pasaquoyan legacy.

Learn more about this episode at www.aboutsouthpodcast.com.

| Co-Producers: Gina Caison & Kelly Vines |
| Music: Brian Horton | www.brianhorton.com | 

S01 Episode 4: Feel Lighter

This week, we have assembled an all-star team of football fans (all of whom happen to be women). Friends of the show, Kris Townsend, Alex Patafio, and Stephanie Rountree, join Gina Caison and Kelly Vines to have a conversation about what it’s like to be a woman who loves football in the South. We cover topics big and small: our childhood connection to the sport, our experiences with other fans, prescribed roles for women on game day, toxic masculinity, mansplaining, and regional performance. While it may seem like just a game, our discussion demonstrates the complex issues associated with our favorite fall pastime. 

This episode contains explicit language.

Learn more about this episode at www.aboutsouthpodcast.com.

| Co-Producers: Gina Caison & Kelly Vines |
| Music: Brian Horton | www.brianhorton.com |

S01 Episode 9: More Estrogen In Football

Ali Arant, English Professor at Wagner College on Staten Island, joins us this week for a conversation about old maids. Ali’s research focuses on old maids in regional literature, but she has also found the figure in surprising places. For instance, the term is used to describe an un-popped kernel of popcorn and the unmatchable card in a game similar to Go Fish. An old maid also lurks in the lyrics of “Baby, It’s Cold Outside,” as the “maiden aunt” with a “vicious mind.” Our conversation investigates how cultural anxieties are embodied in this tragicomic character.

Learn more about this episode at www.aboutsouthpodcast.com.

| Co-Producers: Gina Caison & Kelly Vines |
| Music: Brian Horton | www.brianhorton.com |

S01 Episode 10: No More Book Babies

In the mid-1840s, Warner McCary, an ex-slave from Mississippi, took on a Native American identity, calling himself Okah Tubbee. He soon married Lucy Stanton, a divorced white Mormon woman from New York, who reinvented herself as a Delaware Indian named Laah Ceil. The two then embarked on an astounding adventure spanning all of North America, giving musical performances, working as Indian doctors, and participating in the early Mormon Church. This week, we talk with American Studies scholar, Angela Pulley Hudson about how the couple used popular notions of "Indianness" to disguise their backgrounds, protect their marriage, and make a living.

Learn more about this episode at www.aboutsouthpodcast.com.

| Co-Producers: Gina Caison & Kelly Vines |
| Music: Brian Horton | | www.brianhorton.com |

S01 Episode 13: Real Early South

This week, we met with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Joey Kennedy to discuss this upcoming presidential election, southern politics, and the media. He explains how the “solid South” was created and why it’s important to view the South as more than a block of red states. As a journalist with more than thirty years of experience, Joey emphasizes how changing business models have affected the way that news is reported and the consequences of those changes on politics both regionally and nationally—most visibly, in the way that they have created the Donald Trump phenomenon.

This week's music is from Stuart McNair. Buy his music at stuartmcnair.com.

Learn more about this episode at www.aboutsouthpodcast.com.

| Co-Producers: Gina Caison & Kelly Vines |
| Music: Brian Horton | | www.brianhorton.com |

Building a Fire

S01 Episode 15: Red Buttons, Blue Dots, and Hey Mabels

On Mother’s Day in 1961, the Klan attacked 13 Freedom Riders by firebombing their Greyhound bus outside of Anniston. We close our first season by talking with Anniston Mayor, Vaughn Stewart, and Vice Mayor, Seyram Selase, about the Anniston Freedom Rider’s Memorial currently up for National Monument status. Stewart and Selase retell the story of the Freedom Riders and the bus burning and describe why recognizing this important landmark is significant for their town, the state of Alabama, and the nation. 

Special musical guest: Jaye Price

Learn more about this episode at www.aboutsouthpodcast.com.

| Co-Producers: Gina Caison & Kelly Vines |
| Music: Brian Horton | | www.brianhorton.com |

S01 Episode 16:  Freedom

Gina and Kelly discuss their favorite moments from the second half of season one. In this episode, we discuss Gina’s storied history as a majorette. We also catch up with Ali Arant. In an outtake, Tara Bynam and Gina discuss the inherent pleasure of righteous anger. We also discuss a possible spinoff: “About War Eagle,” and we investigate the motivations of humans and monsters in bonus clips from “Real Early South” and “The Faulkner Witch Project.” Rounding out the episode, Joey Kennedy provides insight about the incoming Attorney General, and Vice Mayor Seyram Selase tells us why it’s important to return to the South.

Learn more about this episode at www.aboutsouthpodcast.com.

| Co-Producers: Gina Caison & Kelly Vines |
| Music: Brian Horton | | www.brianhorton.com |

S01 Episode 18: Season One Recap, Part Two

We're back with Season Two! Tune in on July 7th.

About South is produced by Gina Caison, Kelly Vines, and Adjoa Danso.
Lindsey Baker is our Marketing Director.
Music is by Brian Horton. You can find his music at www.brianhorton.com.
Learn more at www.aboutsouthpodcast.com.

S02 Trailer

To kick off Season Two, Gina and Kelly travel to the end of the world: Venice, Louisiana, which claims to be the southernmost point in Louisiana accessible by car. Traversing through landscapes reminiscent of _True Detective_, they find oil refineries, fishing communities, and estuary wildlife — alligators, egrets, herons, spoonbills, ibises, and several other species of birds. They leave with questions about how our dependence on oil has transformed coastal wetlands into sacrificial spaces, as Louisiana continues to lose approximately 38 football fields worth of land every day.

About South is produced by Gina Caison, Kelly Vines, and Adjoa Danso.
Lindsey Baker is our Marketing Director.
Music is by Brian Horton. You can find his music at www.brianhorton.com.
Learn more at www.aboutsouthpodcast.com.

Obsidian

S02 Episode 1: A Journey to the End of the World

With around 40 million downloads, Brian Reed’s hit podcast S-Town prevails in the American conscious and understanding of the south. In this episode, we sit down with David Davis, a professor of English and Southern Studies at Mercer University, to discuss the telling of a southern reality in S-Town. We look at how Reed’s telling takes a real story of human complexity and frames it as fiction, buying into southern gothic tropes and obscuring the lives of his subjects with a thin layer of regional gold.

About South is produced by Gina Caison, Kelly Vines, and Adjoa Danso.
Lindsey Baker is our Marketing Director.
Music is by Brian Horton. You can find his music at www.brianhorton.com.
Learn more at www.aboutsouthpodcast.com.

S02 Episode 3: Gilded Souths & S-Towns

In this week’s episode, the About South team drove six hours to Ridgeland, Mississippi to attend _Murder is Golden_, a _Golden Girls_ tribute and parody dinner theater put on by Mississippi Murder Mysteries and the Fringe Dinner Theatre. Gina, Adjoa, Kelly, and About South friend Shannon Finck talk about the power of community and community theater in a time where interaction is undervalued and, as we’ve seen recently, increasingly violent. By bringing people together over a show set in Florida, a state itself divided with exclusionary politics, the Fringe theater group inspires laughter, self-acceptance, and the opportunity for connection.

About South is produced by Gina Caison, Kelly Vines, and Adjoa Danso.
Lindsey Baker is our Marketing Director.
Music is by Brian Horton. You can find his music at www.brianhorton.com.
Learn more at www.aboutsouthpodcast.com.

S02 Episode 6: Golden

In an issue of Swamp Thing, Superman contracts a virus that will cause him to become violent. Instead of wreaking havoc in Metropolis, he heads south to Louisiana: a place where there are no superheroes. While Superman and his ilk may not make their homes in the south, the region has been richly explored in the comics medium: from early narrative comics such as Li’l Abner, Pogo, and Kudzu, to more recent serials and graphic novels such as The Walking Dead, Preacher, Bayou, and Swallow Me Whole. This week we visited Brannon Costello, English professor at LSU, to talk about southern comics. We discuss how comics explore the south’s relationship to the nation, grapple with the region’s history, and imagine its future.

About South is produced by Gina Caison, Kelly Vines, and Adjoa Danso.
Lindsey Baker is our Marketing Director.
Music is by Brian Horton. You can find his music at www.brianhorton.com.
Learn more at www.aboutsouthpodcast.com.

S02 Episode 8: The Comic South

Located in Atlanta’s Historic West End, The Wren’s Nest is the historic home of Joel Chandler Harris, well-known for compiling and adapting the African American Brer Rabbit folktales. In the century since Harris’s death, the home has been converted into a museum and now serves as an anchor of the Atlanta arts community, especially in its neighborhood. This week, we met with Akbar Imhotep, the museum’s resident storyteller, and Kalin Thomas, its program director, to discuss the complicated history of the site and their vision for its future. We also discuss how storytelling can build relationships in communities, connect people with their heritage, and to help people heal.

About South is produced by Gina Caison, Kelly Vines, and Adjoa Danso.
Lindsey Baker is our Marketing Director.
Music is by Brian Horton. You can find his music at www.brianhorton.com.
Learn more at www.aboutsouthpodcast.com.

S02 Episode 12: When The Stories Come Out

This week we're proud to feature Lindsey Alexander's podcast, Story of My Life where she asks people over 70 how they came to be who they are and where they are. In honor of tomato season, we're bringing you Story of My Life's interview with Bell Best.  

From Story of My Life: "Bill Best is known as the Tomato Man in parts of Eastern Kentucky. But he'll tell you he's more of an heirloom bean man. A prolific seed saver, Bill has more than 700 varieties of bean seeds; he's even brought a bean back from the brink of distinction. He's the author of Saving Seeds, Preserving Taste, and a founder of the Sustainable Mountain Agriculture Center. Story of My Life met Bill on his farm to hear about heirloom vegetables, growing up rural, and his life on the land. In this episode, you'll learn how to save tomato seeds from your garden."

Learn more at: http://www.storyofmylifepod.com

About South is produced by Gina Caison, Kelly Vines, and Adjoa Danso.
Lindsey Baker is our Marketing Director.
Music is by Brian Horton. You can find his music at www.brianhorton.com.
Learn more at www.aboutsouthpodcast.com.

S03 Episode 3: Presenting Story Of My Life

Every off-week this season, we'll be rebroadcasting some of our favorite stories from previous seasons. This week we're bringing you "Freedom" -- an episode that remains incredibly special to all of us on the About South team. 

On Mother’s Day in 1961, the Klan attacked 13 Freedom Riders by firebombing their Greyhound bus outside of Anniston. We close our first season by talking with Anniston Mayor, Vaughn Stewart, and Vice Mayor, Seyram Selase, about the Anniston Freedom Rider’s Memorial currently up for National Monument status. Stewart and Selase retell the story of the Freedom Riders and the bus burning and describe why recognizing this important landmark is significant for their town, the state of Alabama, and the nation.

Special musical guest: Jaye Price

Learn more about this episode at www.aboutsouthpodcast.com.

About South is produced by Gina Caison, Kelly Vines, and Adjoa Danso.
Lindsey Baker is our Marketing Director.
Music is by Brian Horton. You can find his music at www.brianhorton.com.
Learn more at www.aboutsouthpodcast.com.

Rebroadcast | S01 Episode 16: Freedom

In this episode, we talk about the myth of southern hospitality with Tony Szczesiul, Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Tony traces the long history of the myth and explores how it is embedded with the region’s other non-hospitable traits including enslavement and segregation. Tony describes how enslaved people performed the labor that made southern hospitality possible and how the term emerged as a shorthand justification for southern plantation life in the 1820s. Tracing the history of southern hospitality throughout the twentieth century reveals its importance to contemporary debates about immigration, tourism, and the culture industry.

About South is produced by Gina Caison, Kelly Vines, and Adjoa Danso.
Lindsey Baker is our Marketing Director.
Music is by Brian Horton. You can find his music at www.brianhorton.com.
Learn more at www.aboutsouthpodcast.com.

S03 Episode 5: Hospitality

This week, we went down the road to the Center for Puppetry Arts, the only center of its kind in the country. When we think of puppets, Jim Henson, Father of the Muppets and Mississippian, usually comes to mind. The Center is home to the largest collection of Jim Henson puppets and props, but it’s also much more than that. Gina spoke with Museum Director Jill Nash Malool and Producer Kristin Haverty about the importance of the center’s location in Georgia, what it means to support the arts in local communities and internationally, and what we still have to learn from puppets. 

About South is produced by Gina Caison, Kelly Vines, and Adjoa Danso.
Lindsey Baker is our Marketing Director.
Music is by Brian Horton. You can find his music at www.brianhorton.com.
Learn more at www.aboutsouthpodcast.com.

S03 Episode 6: Puppets!

On June 24, 1973, an arsonist set fire to the Upstairs Lounge, a gay bar in New Orleans’ French Quarter. Dozens of people lost their lives that night, but the event isn’t widely known about. This week, we sit down with Ryan Prechter, a visiting lecturer in Georgia State University’s History Department. Ryan studies queer history in the south, particularly in New Orleans. We revisit the tragedy with Ryan to better understand why it happened and how it relates to where we are now.

About South is produced by Gina Caison, Kelly Vines, and Adjoa Danso.
Lindsey Baker is our Marketing Director.
Music is by Brian Horton. You can find his music at www.brianhorton.com.
Learn more at www.aboutsouthpodcast.com.

S03 Episode 8: Upstairs, 1973

This week Gina, Kelly, and Adjoa took a trip to Boone, North Carolina, a city in the southern Appalachian Mountains with its fair share of mythology and nostalgia from its namesake, Daniel Boone, to its contemporary tourist economy. Although Boone and Watauga County were largely spared from the ravages of mining and mountaintop removal, it is nevertheless a complicated space mired in controversies about gentrification that eerily echo Watauga County’s colonial history. As they travel through the county, they visit the famous Mast General Store and end up in Meat Camp. All the while they try to pin down what’s real about southern Appalachia and the tourist economy and speculate about the future of a place with an apocryphal past.

About South is produced by Gina Caison, Kelly Vines, and Adjoa Danso.
Lindsey Baker is our Marketing Director.
Music is by Brian Horton. You can find his music at www.brianhorton.com.
Learn more at www.aboutsouthpodcast.com.

S03 Episode 9: Plan B(oone), Meat Camp

This week, we’re back in Boone — well, Banner Elk — North Carolina. We sat down with Zackary Vernon, an assistant professor in the Department of English at Appalachian State University. Zack has lived in Boone for three years and chronicled his early days in the high country in the essay, “Adventures of a Bad Environmentalist.” The piece was published in the North Carolina Literary Review and won the first Alex Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize. We talked with Zack about what it means to be an environmentalist and the problematic nature of environmentalism.

Sound Note: There is a small sound glitch around minute 20:45 of this episode. We apologize for this hiccup in the original recording. Sometimes computers fail us. Zack says, “We see no tracks in the garden, but there is a pile sh*t out in the garden.”

About South is produced by Gina Caison, Kelly Vines, and Adjoa Danso.
Lindsey Baker is our Marketing Director.
Music is by Brian Horton. You can find his music at www.brianhorton.com.
Learn more at www.aboutsouthpodcast.com.

S03 Episode 12: Environmental Tell-All

While working as a street hustler and fortune teller in 1930s New York, Eddie Owens Martin fell ill and had his first vision of Pasaquan. When his mother died in 1957, Eddie moved back to Buena Vista, Georgia, changed his name to St. EOM, and began building Pasaquan, a seven-acre site with over 900 feet of painted masonry walls. The site is currently being renovated, and this week, we talked with site director Michael McFalls about St. EOM and his Pasaquoyan legacy.

About South is produced by Gina Caison, Kelly Vines, and Adjoa Danso.
Lindsey Baker is our Marketing Director.
Music is by Brian Horton. You can find his music at www.brianhorton.com.
Learn more at www.aboutsouthpodcast.com.

Gina Caison's Album

Rebroadcast | S01 Episode 4: Feel Lighter

This week, we talk pumpkins-- giant pumpkins. Randi R. Byrd serves as the Community Engagement Coordinator for the American Indian Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and facilitates the Healthy Native North Carolinians Network. She is also an award-winning grower of giant pumpkins. Although Randi always had a green thumb, she only connected her interest in agricultural practice to her fascination with pumpkins in 2009. Growing a 700-pound pumpkin is a difficult feat that often requires the support of family and friends. Randi talks about the community she found not only in fellow growers of giant pumpkins but also in the local Indigenous community as well as her online friends that encouraged her pursuit, performed ceremony on the land with her, and physically tilled the soil from which actual magic could grow.

About South is produced by Gina Caison, Kelly Vines, and Adjoa Danso.
Lindsey Baker is our Marketing Director.
Music is by Brian Horton. You can find his music at www.brianhorton.com.
Learn more at www.aboutsouthpodcast.com.

S03 Episode 13: Grow

In this week’s episode, we sit down with Brian Ward, historian and Professor in American Studies at Northumbria University in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, to discuss his 2017 book Martin Luther King: In Newcastle Upon Tyne about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s landmark 1967 visit to Newcastle University. Brian explains what makes this brief yet historic visit to northeastern England so exceptional, and we discuss the context of King’s journey, his motivation for coming to Newcastle, and the impact his presence continues to have on race relations on the Northeast today.

About South is produced by Gina Caison, Kelly Vines, and Adjoa Danso.
Jessica Parker is an Assistant Producer.
Music is by Brian Horton. You can find his music at www.brianhorton.com.
Learn more at www.aboutsouthpodcast.com.

S04 Episode 2: King, 1967

In this week’s episode of About South, we present the second half of our two-part conversation with policy advocate and longtime friend Sanford Johnson. We cover a wide variety of Mississippi-related topics, including the Jackson ICE raids, the 2020 election, and the defacing of the Emmett Till historical marker.

About South is produced by Gina Caison, Kelly Vines, and Adjoa Danso.
Jessica Parker is an assistant producer. 
Music is by Brian Horton. You can find his music at www.brianhorton.com.
Learn more at www.aboutsouthpodcast.com.

S04 Episode 7: Two, Mississippi

This week, iconic Atlanta drag performer Brigitte Bidet joins Gina for a conversation about all things drag in the South. Brigitte is a classically trained dancer, a favorite host for southern queer publication WUSSY Mag, and a founding member of Legendary Children ATL. You may even have seen her as Dolly Parton #5 in the Netflix original film Dumplin’, starring Jennifer Anniston.

About South is produced by Gina Caison, Kelly Vines, and Adjoa Danso.
Jessica Parker is an assistant producer. 
Music is by Brian Horton. You can find his music at www.brianhorton.com.
Learn more at www.aboutsouthpodcast.com.

S04 Episode 8: Brigitte

In honor of Randi Byrd's personal best record and the 50th Annual Coharie Pow Wow, we're rebroadcasting our talk on pumpkins-- giant pumpkins. Although Randi always had a green thumb, she only connected her interest in agricultural practice to her fascination with pumpkins in 2009. Growing a 700+ pound pumpkin is a difficult feat that often requires the support of family and friends. Randi talks about the community she found not only in fellow growers of giant pumpkins but also in the local Indigenous community as well as her online friends that encouraged her pursuit, performed ceremony on the land with her, and physically tilled the soil from which actual magic could grow.

About South is produced by Gina Caison, Kelly Vines, and Adjoa Danso.
Jessica Parker is an assistant producer. 
Music is by Brian Horton. You can find his music at www.brianhorton.com.
Learn more at www.aboutsouthpodcast.com.

Rebroadcast | S03 Episode 13: Grow

On June 24, 1973, an arsonist set fire to the Upstairs Lounge, a gay bar in New Orleans’ French Quarter. Dozens of people lost their lives that night, but the event isn’t widely known about. This week, we sit down with Ryan Prechter, a visiting lecturer in Georgia State University’s History Department. Ryan studies queer history in the south, particularly in New Orleans. We revisit the tragedy with Ryan to better understand why it happened and how it relates to where we are now.

About South is produced by Gina Caison, Kelly Vines, and Adjoa Danso.
Jessica Parker joins as an assistant producer.
Music is by Brian Horton. You can find his music at www.brianhorton.com.
Learn more at www.aboutsouthpodcast.com.

Rebroadcast | S03 Episode 8: Upstairs, 1973

In this week’s episode, we sit down with  Hillary Holley from Fair Fight to discuss the 2018 gubernatorial election that had the whole nation watching. We cover a variety of topics, including the tactics utilized by Brian Kemp’s office to suppress minority voters in Georgia, the ensuing litigation spearheaded by Stacey Abrams, and the hope for the future of Georgia elections.

About South is produced by Gina Caison, Kelly Vines, and Adjoa Danso.
Jessica Parker is an assistant producer. 
Music is by Brian Horton. You can find his music at www.brianhorton.com.
Learn more at www.aboutsouthpodcast.com.

S04 Episode 9: Fight

This week on About South, we are joined by Dr. Calinda Lee, Vice President for Historical Interpretation and Community Partnerships at the Atlanta History Center. We dive headfirst into the topic of our hometown’s complicated past, and how we choose to tell the story of our past to others. Calinda helps us to understand the unique challenges in framing Atlanta history correctly, avoiding the pitfalls of past interpretations, and how we can plan for the future presentation of our historical understanding.

About South is produced by Gina Caison, Kelly Vines, and Adjoa Danso.
Jessica Parker is an assistant producer. 
Music is by Brian Horton. You can find his music at www.brianhorton.com.
Learn more at www.aboutsouthpodcast.com.

S04 Episode 10: To Atlanta, With Love

This week, co-producer Kelly Vines sits down with Dwight Billings, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Kentucky. Dwight researches social inequality and poverty, especially in Appalachia, where Kelly’s family has a long history. The pair discusses what drew the coal mining industry to southern Appalachia and the future of the region.

About South is produced by Gina Caison, Kelly Vines, and Adjoa Danso.
Jessica Parker is an assistant producer. 
Music is by Brian Horton. You can find his music at www.brianhorton.com.
Learn more at www.aboutsouthpodcast.com.

S04 Episode 11: Of Mountains & Miners

In this week’s episode of  About South, we travel to St. John the Baptist Parish in Louisiana to meet with Ashley Rogers, executive director at the Whitney Plantation museum and memorial site, to discuss the history of plantation enslavement in the U.S. South. As the only plantation museum in Louisiana with a focus on slavery, its rare and vital approach in exhibiting the area’s gruesome agricultural industrial complex sheds light on one of the most painfully minimized eras of American history.

About South is produced by Gina Caison, Kelly Vines, and Adjoa Danso.
Jessica Parker is an assistant producer. 
Music is by Brian Horton. You can find his music at www.brianhorton.com.
Learn more at www.aboutsouthpodcast.com.

S04 Episode 12: To Tell the Truth

This week, we keep it in the family as Gina sits down with new About South co-producer Jessica Parker. Jessica grew up in Fayette County, GA, home of the Line Creek Petroglyph, a large, engraved rock with a complicated history. Jessica first learned about the petroglyph when it became the subject of national news -- because someone had stolen it. Years later, she and Gina attempt to solve the mystery of the Line Creek Petroglyph.

About South is produced by Gina Caison, Kelly Vines, and Adjoa Danso.
Jessica Parker is an assistant producer. 
Music is by Brian Horton. You can find his music at www.brianhorton.com.
Learn more at www.aboutsouthpodcast.com.

S04 Episode 13: Between a Rock & a Hard Place

In this week’s episode, we present our first full-length phone interview with returning guest Dr. Tara Bynum, a Mellon research scholar in African American history at the Library Company of Philadelphia, and Assistant Professor at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. Tara takes us back in time to an era before the Revolutionary War in Newport, Rhode Island, where we are introduced to an enslaved man named Cesar Lyndon, whose remarkable story offers us a glimpse into colonial enslavement and pre-Revolution commerce.

About South is produced by Gina Caison, Kelly Vines, and Adjoa Danso.
Jessica Parker is an assistant producer. 
Music is by Brian Horton. You can find his music at www.brianhorton.com.
Learn more at www.aboutsouthpodcast.com.

S04 Episode 14: Cesar Lyndon's Cookout

This week's guest practically needs no introduction because you've been listening to him on our show for years. Dr. Brian Horton is a professor at North Carolina Central University, a jazz history scholar, and a prolific musician. Gina calls him up to talk about all of the above and music programs at historically Black colleges and universities.

About South is produced by Gina Caison, Kelly Vines, and Adjoa Danso.
Jessica Parker is an assistant producer. 
Music is by Brian Horton. You can find his music at www.brianhorton.com.
Learn more at www.aboutsouthpodcast.com.

S04 Episode 15: Gentle with the Melody

In this special short episode, we hear from several listeners who have made About South possible. Series finale airs Friday, November 15.

About South is produced by Gina Caison, Kelly Vines, and Adjoa Danso.
Jessica Parker is an assistant producer. 
Music is by Brian Horton. You can find his music at www.brianhorton.com.
Learn more at www.aboutsouthpodcast.com

S04 Farewell Bonus

In the series finale of About South, we travel to the E.W. Shell Fisheries Center at Auburn University to discuss a subject near and dear to our hearts -- crayfish. Jim Stoeckel, an Associate Professor at Auburn, and Brian Helms, an Assistant Professor at Troy University, generously share with us their knowledge, expertise, and enthusiasm for this small yet remarkable creature.

About South is produced by Gina Caison, Kelly Vines, and Adjoa Danso.
Jessica Parker is an assistant producer. 
Music is by Brian Horton. You can find his music at www.brianhorton.com.
Learn more at www.aboutsouthpodcast.com.

S04 Episode 16: Jewel Mudbug

About South is a weekly podcast hosted by Gina Caison. Each week we talk to the folks who create, curate, and critique southern cultures. 

| Co-Producers: Gina Caison, Kelly Vines, and Adjoa Danso |
| Assistant Producer: Jessica Parker |
| Music: Brian Horton | www.brianhorton.com |

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