Julia Wendell, Author at Salvation South

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Fleeing for My Life

A South Carolina poet on how we leave a special place—but it never leaves us.

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Home is one thing. Where you’re from is another. And can you talk about the difference politely while you’re standing in the checkout line?

He’s almost 90, and he teaches music in a little school in Georgia. He’s also an unsung giant of American folk music who played with Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger. Meet Frank Hamilton.

The South lost one of its greatest artists this week, and Salvation South brings you two remembrances of the truth-telling singer from Butcher Holler, Kentucky.

Thoughts on reverie, restlessness, and recklessness from the poet laureate of West Virginia.

As we greet 2024, look fondly (but briefly) backward. Then seek your sources of hope, because hope has no end.

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