Chuck Reece wanted to hear a particular kind of voice from the South – a voice that loved and appreciated this part of the world while acknowledging all its faults, past and present. He didn’t hear that voice enough.
So he created a website called The Bitter Southerner. For five years now Reece has opened it to all sorts of writers, photographers and filmmakers with their own visions of the South. And recently, he started a podcast with Georgia Public Broadcasting to do the same thing. He sat down for our podcast to talk about it.
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Show notes:
- The Bitter Southerner website
- The BS Podcast, produced by Georgia Public Broadcasting
- A good three-part Q&A
- Cotton of the Carolinas, the T-shirt company Chuck mentions in the episode
- The immortal Molly Hatchet's "Gator Country"
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