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Salvation South editor Chuck Reece comments on Southern culture and values in a weekly segment that airs Fridays on GPB Radio.
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The Togetherness Muscle (opens the original)
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This weekend, better than three million Southerners will sit in the bleachers at a football game. Chuck Reece, who memorized the Gilmer High School lineup before he could name three Beatitudes, argues these gatherings are the last reliable place where Southerners still stand shoulder to shoulder with strangers. His evidence is a woman in the Gator Bowl in 1980 whose name he never learned.
A World Without Dolly (opens the original)
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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 Hall to see a 31-year-old Dolly Parton. He also reflects on her plainspoken belief that people deserve to be accepted and loved for who they are—and on the old hymn that has been in his head since hearin
Deluxe: Barbecue in the South Is a Mouthful (opens the original)
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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.
The Harp God Gave You (opens the original)
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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 what the hollow square knows that the rest of us have forgotten.
Charles’ School Years (opens the original)
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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.
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