If you’ve spent much time in Atlanta, you know about the Candler family.
The one people probably know most is Asa Griggs Candler, who founded Coca-Cola and brought Emory University to Decatur. Pete Candler, a writer and photographer now living in Asheville, heard those family stories when he was growing up.
But there were a lot of other Candler stories that no one in the family dared talk about.
Pete Candler discovered those stories, and more, as part of a series of road trips he took around the South over a span of more than 20 years.
He’s compiled those journeys into a book called “A Deeper South,” which comes out in May. He's also got a podcast called "The Detourist."
His work is about the stories the South likes to tell and probably shouldn’t … and about the stories the South doesn’t tell and most definitely should.
