Bradley Firchow, Author at Salvation South

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A pink pill on a carpet beside a spiral notebook, representing themes of the opioid crisis in rural Kentucky, Appalachian healthcare challenges, and the opioid epidemic in rural medicine.

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When a teen’s OD shatters a night shift, a Kentucky med student confronts the shadows of his past—and the unseen crises shaping rural America.

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An Arkansas native poet brings us pieces that remember an important figure in Southern Black history and that evoke the scorching heat of summer days.

A few words on what Salvation South has become as we approach our second anniversary.

My father believed a simple mental picture of history could make anyone a lifelong learner. So, he developed a three-century “Time Map.” The education establishment wasn’t interested.

A minister on why he takes his cues from the late Mississippi Rev. Will D. Campbell, who believed all of us were bastards, but that God loved us anyway.

George Lancaster describes how he and his friend Bill built a committed and lasting friendship — despite their religious and political differences.

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Pleasant memories of places past: that’s nostalgia. But what do you call the grief that comes when the modern world leaves nary a trace of the place that raised you?

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