Salvation South

But really, it’s an Apple Nut Torte

To honor our Italian ancestors and friends, let’s call it gamberetti con polenta.

Regret, a Chattanooga poet argues, is like a junkyard.

How to fix yourself if you hold on too tightly to what used to be.

College towns move us from the world of youth to the world of adulthood. For folks who went to college in Athens, Georgia, William Orten Carlton was the man who welcomed us to the new world.

A film about the lauded Southern novelist — and Salvation South contributor — Charles McNair.

Religious affiliation is falling, even in the God-haunted South. But chaplaincy is booming in hospitals, schools, prisons and other institutions. And it’s teaching us how to reach across barriers of faith.

In Arkansas’ Salem Cemetery, everyone you meet is a friend, a neighbor, or maybe even one of your people.

Five Southern poems that smell like honeysuckle, mountain laurel, moss and tomatoes.

Zoh Amba is a rarity — a white woman saxophonist, from Appalachia, no less — playing “free jazz” in New York and around the world. But to pigeonhole her into a “hillbilly exotica” tale would be to devalue the hard work of a woman whose music fearlessly chases the divine.

Legendary music writer Holly Gleason talks to the South’s most beloved star about love, forgiveness and how to live life with an open mind and an open heart.

It just may be that everything we need to know about living life, we can learn from Dolly Parton.