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CTL Script/ Top Stories of September 24th        Publish Date: September 24th   From the Ingles Studio Welcome to the Award-Winning Cherokee Tribune Ledger Podcast  Today is Tuesday, September 24th and Happy heavenly Birthday to Jim Henson ***09.24.24 – BIRTHDAY – JIM HENSON*** I'm Keith Ippolito and here are the stories Cherokee is talking about, presented by Credit Union of Georgia.  New Fire Station and Community Center Opens in Sutallee Road Upgrades Coming to Buice Avenue in Southwest Cherokee Cherokee County Elections Board Names New Chair   Plus, Leah McGrath from Ingles Markets on diabetes.   We'll have all this and more coming up on the Cherokee Tribune-Ledger Podcast, and if you're looking for Community news, we encourage you to listen and subscribe!    Commercial: CU of GA STORY 1:   New Fire Station and Community Center Opens in Sutallee Cherokee County celebrated the grand opening of the new Fire Station 13 and Sutallee Community Center on September 21. Located at 134 Ficklen Church Way, the 12,000-square-foot facility includes a fire station, apparatus bays, and a community room. The event featured speeches from local officials, a ceremonial hose uncoupling, and demonstrations of firefighting techniques. Over 200 community members attended, enjoying tours, games, and refreshments. The new station replaces the old Fire Station 13, enhancing emergency services with modern equipment and increased staffing. The facility is designed to serve the community for 50-100 years. STORY 2:  Road Upgrades Coming to Buice Avenue in Southwest Cherokee The Cherokee County Board of Commissioners approved a $383,690 contract with Bartow Paving Company for improvements to Buice Avenue in southwest Cherokee County. The project aims to upgrade the substandard road by widening it and adding curbs, gutters, and drainage structures. This enhancement will improve the road from Bells Ferry Road to Buice Lake, a mixed-use development by Lynwood Development. The developer will partially fund the project. Construction is set to begin in early October, with a 90-day timeframe, aiming for completion by late 2024 or early 2025, weather permitting. STORY 3:  Cherokee County Elections Board Names New Chair The Cherokee County Board of Elections and Registration appointed Glenn Johnson as the new board chair on September 23. Johnson, a Republican attorney from Canton, was unanimously selected after previous motions for other candidates failed due to party-line splits. Board member Julie Glade, a Democrat, praised Johnson's intelligence and mediation skills, believing he will foster cooperation. Johnson's appointment followed three split votes for other candidates, including Larry Hand and Mike Landrum, both Republicans, and Tony Harrison, an independent. Johnson will be sworn in soon, pending paperwork completion with the Georgia Secretary of State. We have opportunities for sponsors to get great engagement on these shows. Call 770.874.3200 for more info.    Back in a moment. Break:  DRAKE STORY 4:  Canton Theatre Selected to Host Documentary Film Screenings The Canton Theatre has been selected as a screening partner for the Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers by South Arts, joining 21 venues across the Southeast. Supported by Fox Gives, the theatre will host screenings and discussions with filmmakers, enhancing community engagement with independent films. Six films will be featured at the Canton Theatre, including "Bulls and Saints" and "Lift." This partnership with the Fox Theatre aims to foster local conversations and support the regional film industry. The Canton Theatre, with a rich history in film, continues to connect the community with diverse cinematic experiences. STORY 5: Canton Man to Serve 25 Years in Prison for Child Molestation Xavier Matthew Jennings, 22, was sentenced to 25 years in prison without parole, followed by life on probation, for molesting an 8-year-old. Convicted in August of two counts of aggravated child molestation, Jennings was sentenced on September 19. The case, investigated by Holly Springs Police, involved testimony from seven witnesses, including experts and the victim. Despite being 16 at the time of the crime, Jennings was charged as an adult. The victim, now 14, and his mother spoke at the sentencing, highlighting the lasting impact of the abuse. The court acknowledged the victim's bravery and imposed the minimum sentence due to Jennings' age at the time of the offense. Commercial: INGLES 1 ***LEAH MCGRATH INTERVIEW***INGLES 2 DIABETES (INTERVIEW)*** We'll have closing comments after this. COMMERCIAL: Heller 3   SIGN OFF –   Thanks again for hanging out with us on today's Cherokee Tribune Ledger Podcast. If you enjoy these shows, we encourage you to check out our other offerings, like the Cherokee Tribune Ledger Podcast, the Marietta Daily Journal, or the Community Podcast for Rockdale Newton and Morgan Counties. 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Joanna Pearson discusses her debut novel, Bright and Tender Dark, as well as branding, homesteading online, Tressie McMillan Cottom, the weirdness of Threads and Goodreads, eerie vibes, using murdered-girl tropes while subverting them, unresolved creepiness in the novel, Rachel Monroe fandom, and more! Joanna Pearson's debut novel, BRIGHT AND TENDER DARK (Bloomsbury, 2024), is an Indie Next Pick and an Amazon Editors' Pick. Her second story collection, NOW YOU KNOW IT ALL (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021), was chosen by Edward P. Jones for the 2021 Drue Heinz Literature Prize and named a finalist for the Virginia Literary Awards. Her first story collection, EVERY HUMAN LOVE (Acre Books, 2019) was a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Awards, the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for Fiction, and the Foreword INDIES Awards. Her stories have appeared in The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Mystery and Suspense, The Best Small Fictions, Best of the Net, and many other places. Joanna has received fellowships supporting her fiction from MacDowell, VCCA, South Arts, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and the North Carolina Arts Council/Durham Arts Council. She holds an MFA in poetry from the Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars and an MD from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Originally from western North Carolina, she now lives with her husband and two daughters near Chapel Hill, where she works as a psychiatrist. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Author and arts administrator JC McPherson is also a trained master electrician who approaches poetry with a troubleshooting mindset. He says that "writing a poem is no different than wiring up a new room, like putting new lights in the outlets. And it's a process."JC often returns to his favorite writing prompt because it "shakes something loose" and helps him relax into his writing. Shake up your writing process and have fun while doing it with his help!About JC McPhersonJC McPherson has a background in writing, electricity, and general troubleshooting. A recipient of the 2022-2023 National Leaders of Color Fellowship through South Arts, he is an associate for the Kentucky Black Writers Collaborative, Creative Writing Instructor, and arts administrator. He is a member of the Affrilachian Poets and the author of numerous collections of poetry. He's also a member of the Society of American Baseball Research. 

David Lewis speaks with visual artist Alexis McGrigg, a contemporary artist who examines themes of Blackness, space, spirituality, identity, and collective consciousness. Her artwork utilizes the mediums of painting, drawing, and interdisciplinary media to explore the multiplicity of Blackness through figurative abstraction and conceptual narratives. She integrates poetry, sound, and performance in her arts practice and research. Alexis is currently South Arts 2023 Mississippi's Fellow for Visual Arts. Her work is featured in the South Arts 2023 Southern Prize and State Fellows Exhibition at the Ohr-O'keefe Museum of Art from August 17 - December 13, 2023. If you enjoyed listening to this podcast, please consider contributing to MPB. https://donate.mpbfoundation.org/mspb/podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to the daily304 – your window into Wonderful, Almost Heaven, West Virginia.   Today is Tuesday, Aug. 8   Discover small town charm in Almost Heaven…Black Appalachian storytellers, learn how you can win a fellowship…and Marshall bioreactor composter is the first of its kind to be used as a university--#YesWV…on today's daily304. 1 – From WORLD ATLAS – West Virginia is rightfully known for its majestic landscapes and outdoor recreation. Astonishingly, over three-fourths of West Virginia is also covered in lush forest, with a range of flora and hilly landscapes to traverse, many with sparkling mountain streams, rushing rivers, and calm lakes.To explore these spectacular slices of nature amongst the rugged and awe-inspiring Appalachian Mountains, look no further than West Virginia's small towns. From Summersville to White Sulphur Springs, from Point Pleasant to Berkeley Springs, these communities thrive and come alive during the summer months.  Visitors come from near and far to enjoy some of West Virginia's most magnificent pockets of nature alongside the comforts and charms of local restaurants, cozy accommodations, and unique attractions. Check out www.wvtourism.com for Almost Heaven road trip suggestions. Read more: https://www.worldatlas.com/cities/these-small-towns-in-west-virginia-come-alive-in-summer.html 2 – From WOAY – The National Association of Black Storytellers wants to honor and celebrate Black Appalachian storytellers. The association is sponsoring the 2023 Black Appalachian Storytellers Fellowship to support black storytellers native to and residing in Appalachian states.  The fellowship is partly funded by Mid Atlantic Arts' Central Appalachia Living Traditions Program and South Arts as part of the In These Mountains, Central Appalachian Folk Arts and Culture initiative. NABS is offering a $5,000 award to represent fellows in each of the six eligible states and a one-year membership to the association.  The deadline to apply is August 20. Learn more: https://woay.com/national-association-of-black-storytellers-providing-fellowships-to-appalachian-storytellers/ #3 – From FOOD MANAGEMENT – The Sustainability Department at Marshall University is partnering with Sodexo to support the school's creation of the XACT Systems BioReactor, the state's first commercial composter and the first technology of its kind in the world to be used at a university. Amy Parsons-White, sustainability manager of Marshall's Sustainability Department, says she is eager to share products from the university's compost with the community at local farmers markets and plans on using these sales to continue funding the program. The facility is designed to curtail roughly 750 tons of waste that would otherwise end up in a landfill, which aligns with Sodexo's corporate commitment to easing the impact of climate change through reduced carbon emissions, sustainable food sourcing and responsible waste management.  Read more: https://www.food-management.com/colleges-universities/sodexo-works-marshall-university-high-volume-composter Find these stories and more at wv.gov/daily304. The daily304 curated news and information is brought to you by the West Virginia Department of Commerce: Sharing the wealth, beauty and opportunity in West Virginia with the world. Follow the daily304 on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @daily304. Or find us online at wv.gov and just click the daily304 logo.  That's all for now. Take care. Be safe. Get outside and enjoy all the opportunity West Virginia has to offer.

Guest: SARAH BRYANWHAT WILL THE AUDIENCE LEARN? Tune in as you'll learn about how folklife preservation is manifested in building community and cultural engagement through the rich culture of North Carolina.EPISODE SUMMARY: In today's episode, Joseph is joined by our special guest Sarah Bryan, who is the Executive Director of the North Carolina Folklife Institute, an organization that for more than four decades has been dedicated to the preservation, appreciation, and understanding of folklife heritage and culture in North Carolina. Sarah will share with us the importance of preserving cultural heritage, the amazing work that NC Folklife does in the community, and what it's like to be a writer and a musician.https://sarah-bryan.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahbryannc/https://twitter.com/sarahbryan‍EPISODE QUOTE: “ That makes it all the more essential for organizations like both of ours to create these opportunities whenever we can to help young people find out about traditions in their communities.”  Tune in for this fun conversation at TalkRadio.nyc or watch the Facebook Livestream by Clicking Here.SHOW NOTESSEGMENT 1Bryan spent most of her childhood in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. She can trace back her lineage all the way back to colonial times in both Carolinas. She fondly describes her mother as a busy historical fiction writer.SEGMENT 2She got a lucky break with the NC Folklife Institute shortly after her graduation form grad school. Her first job was in the Arts Directory. Bryan was also a fiddler player starting in her teens. She got the opportunity to play on stage with Chris Brashear. Bryan goes into detail about her bumpy and exciting experience performing with him in front of a live audience.SEGMENT 3Bryan was one of the co-authors for African American Music Trails of Eastern North Carolina. It was about the history and tradition of black music in the 80s in North Carolina. She is currently co-authoring a book about historical Southern traditional pottery. Despite being a vegetarian she interviewed Mr.Stami and Mr.Monk from Greensboro and Lexington about barbecue pits at their restaurants. Bryan's favorite festival is Mount Airy Fiddlers Convention.SEGMENT 4She aims to educate younger members of the community to find out about traditions through elder artists and storytellers. One of the programs providing that support is the Junior Appalachian Musicians. The Blue Ridge Heritage Trail is a project Bryan hopes to revisit to give artists the ability to promote themselves.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------TRANSCRIPT00:00:37.980 –> 00:00:45.720 Joseph McElroy: Welcome to the gateway to the smokies podcast this podcast is about America's most visited National Park.00:00:46.170 –> 00:00:58.980 Joseph McElroy: The Great Smoky Mountain National Park and the surrounding towns there's areas filled with ancient natural beauty a deep storied history and rich mountain cultures that we explore with weekly episodes.00:00:59.520 –> 00:01:10.830 Joseph McElroy: I'm Joseph Franklyn McElroy man of the world, but also deep roots in these mountains my family is living the great smoky for over 200 years my business is in travel, but my heart is in culture.00:01:11.610 –> 00:01:18.420 Joseph McElroy: Today we're going to talk about the North Carolina folklife it's to with director Sarah Brian but, first a few messages.00:01:19.710 –> 00:01:29.640 Joseph McElroy: Imagine a place evocative of the motor court of the past a modern environment with a Chic Appalachian feels, a place for adventure and for relaxation.00:01:30.210 –> 00:01:39.090 Joseph McElroy: Imagine a place where you can fish in a mountain heritage trout stream grill the catch in a fire accompanied by a fine wine or craft beers.00:01:39.570 –> 00:01:52.500 Joseph McElroy: Imagine a place with old-time music and world cultural sound, there is no other place like the Meadowlark Motel Maggie Valley North Carolina your smoky mountain adventures start with where you stay.00:01:54.210 –> 00:02:06.720 Joseph McElroy: The smoky mountains and surrounding area is a vacation destination for all sees some of the nation's best hiking trails waterfalls outdoor adventures and family entertainment to be found, right here.00:02:07.500 –> 00:02:18.240 Joseph McElroy: start your adventure by using smokies adventure calm smokies plural adventure calm to explore all the wonderful features of the great smoky mountains natural part.00:02:18.750 –> 00:02:25.110 Joseph McElroy: You know, get trail maps and find out about waterfalls and kids coven elk, and much more.00:02:25.590 –> 00:02:35.220 Joseph McElroy: And then check out all the awesome family attractions and entertainment, you and your entire family can enjoy and all of the smoky mountain and surrounding areas.00:02:35.790 –> 00:02:43.110 Joseph McElroy: The goal of smokies adventures become the leading information portal for adventures and experiences and the great smoky mountain.00:02:45.000 –> 00:02:46.350 Joseph McElroy: There are some events coming up.00:02:47.850 –> 00:03:02.190 Joseph McElroy: Well, first one, I will talk to you about his music and it's called smoking BLU Ray and it's on July 23 third at 6 pm it's a blue smoky blue rain is a trio of led by.00:03:04.890 –> 00:03:19.230 Joseph McElroy: With the three music great musicians land Graham Fillmore and Amos Jackson, their brand of American amuses music is an infectious blend of folk light rock blues jazz that touch traditional country.00:03:20.130 –> 00:03:24.930 Joseph McElroy: They met through a mutual friend and from the very force nope realize that they had something special.00:03:25.980 –> 00:03:36.210 Joseph McElroy: So we're going to have that event on on a Saturday night on July 23 at the pavilion on the back porch pavilion is the back end and the back.00:03:37.020 –> 00:03:48.120 Joseph McElroy: recreation area, the metal art motel we have a sort of a wonderful performance venue and we're also going to free Barbecue and.00:03:48.870 –> 00:04:01.770 Joseph McElroy: And and and there'll be music after the show to up until whatever the night provides so admission is free for hotel guests and heritage club members and it's $10 for all others.00:04:03.090 –> 00:04:13.680 Joseph McElroy: As you need to do an rsvp so call eight to 8926171 second one seven to get your tickets again eight to 89261717.00:04:14.790 –> 00:04:35.340 Joseph McElroy: Now some of you have heard about tick tock and and and and Instagram especially tick tock and a local guy here named Zeb who's part of the Jay Jay creek cloggers is gone viral with hundreds of millions of views, for his clogging style.00:04:37.230 –> 00:04:50.730 Joseph McElroy: And so the Meadowlark Smoky Mountain Heritage Center in the Meadowlark Motel proudly announced a heritage event that features an evening of dinner and then dancing from the legendary J Creek Cloggers.00:04:51.390 –> 00:05:01.740 Joseph McElroy: featuring Zeb Ross on Saturday night July 30 and started again the Night starts with a delicious Barbecue dinner at six and then column.00:05:02.160 –> 00:05:15.390 Joseph McElroy: cook culminates with a rollicking performance by the jquery clockers at 7:30 pm they will perform multiple examples of traditional mountain dancing as well as teach the audience several fun dance steps.00:05:16.380 –> 00:05:25.890 Joseph McElroy: group leader Kim Rasa was here a week or so go on on our podcast and will also give a short talk on the history and traditions, of a mountain man.00:05:26.490 –> 00:05:33.720 Joseph McElroy: grab your partner and come and join us for a memorable fun-filled classic mountain heritage evening of dining and dancing.00:05:34.230 –> 00:05:41.100 Joseph McElroy: admission is free for hotel guests and heritage members and $20 per person for folks not staying in a hotel.00:05:41.550 –> 00:05:58.320 Joseph McElroy: Could you know, give us a call at 828-926-1717 to reserve your room or just to get a ticket to the dinner and dance this week's classic old old mountain type dancehall stuff and you can have a great time and then it'll be put up on tick tock maybe we'll go viral good.00:06:00.060 –> 00:06:05.340 Joseph McElroy: Now the big news is on August 12 through the 13th there's going to be a songwriters camp.00:06:05.760 –> 00:06:20.580 Joseph McElroy: That features Grammy award-winning artist Jim Lauderdale and Charles hunter the third law with Ward winning artists, they are Nicholson clay mills and Charles Chamberlain it's a two-day event of interactive songwriting instruction.00:06:21.810 –> 00:06:32.820 Joseph McElroy: With world-class and you'll get a DEMO tape produced for your participation for your what you write what you perform and then also be a concert.00:06:33.330 –> 00:06:49.620 Joseph McElroy: By the song from the road band on Friday night and then again a Barbecue dinner and an all star concept with all those artists, on Saturday night, this is an event like you'll never get your life to Jim lauderdale we wrote, most of the hits first artists like Jim George strait and.00:06:50.640 –> 00:07:00.540 Joseph McElroy: Charles Humphrey is a grammy award-winning himself and has done some major songs it's just it's going to be incredible you can learn a lot, the price is 675.00:07:00.960 –> 00:07:10.470 Joseph McElroy: per person includes all the activities that DEMO tape and the concerts and the dinners and everything else, and under special rooms available for you you're not from the area.00:07:10.830 –> 00:07:29.220 Joseph McElroy: And you can call 8289261717 to get the details to get yourself a room get yourself a ticket and come on and there's just also for people just want to come to concerts there are concert tickets available as well again call eight to 89261717.00:07:31.260 –> 00:07:36.870 Joseph McElroy: So today we're going to talk about the new North Carolina Folklife Institute and the Director of that is Sarah Bryan.00:07:38.550 –> 00:07:39.120 Joseph McElroy: And it's.00:07:40.410 –> 00:07:50.550 Joseph McElroy: The folklife institute's organization that for more than four decades has been dedicated to the preservation of appreciation and understanding of folklife heritage and culture in North Carolina.00:07:51.300 –> 00:08:05.100 Joseph McElroy: Sarah is an accomplished writer author and musician she was also the editor to notable old-time music publications and enjoys collecting old 78 rpm lps and supporting animal welfare.00:08:05.790 –> 00:08:18.390 Joseph McElroy: she's a tar heel basketball and New York mets baseball fan she lives in Durham North Carolina with her family and then it has a pack of dogs and cats to support her efforts hello, Sarah how you doing.00:08:18.510 –> 00:08:20.370 Sarah Bryan: hey I'm doing good, how are you.00:08:20.760 –> 00:08:31.410 Joseph McElroy: Fine I'm doing good hey listen I'm not going to hold it against you, that you're a tar heel born and bred but yeah since I went to do, but you do live in Durham so you gotta live in enemy territory right.00:08:31.500 –> 00:08:35.550 Sarah Bryan: I live about three blocks from campus so I have to represent extra hard for the.00:08:35.550 –> 00:08:36.450 Sarah Bryan: target was the air.00:08:36.570 –> 00:08:38.730 Joseph McElroy: All right, which is the West campus.00:08:38.820 –> 00:08:42.150 Joseph McElroy: escape and so you're like near downtown right.00:08:42.240 –> 00:08:44.400 Sarah Bryan: yeah yeah quite close yeah it all sounds.00:08:44.790 –> 00:08:47.970 Joseph McElroy: cool there has become a little bit of a foodie town right, just like national.00:08:48.240 –> 00:08:55.770 Sarah Bryan: It really is It reminds me a lot of Asheville yeah and just a huge number of people moving here every year.00:08:56.220 –> 00:08:56.850 Joseph McElroy: Oh yeah.00:08:57.420 –> 00:08:58.110 Sarah Bryan: Look asheville.00:08:58.410 –> 00:09:05.160 Joseph McElroy: After Duke I lived in Durham for about seven years and I enjoyed it very much you know it's a cool little town.00:09:06.240 –> 00:09:06.930 Joseph McElroy: you're busy north.00:09:06.960 –> 00:09:10.470 Joseph McElroy: Carolina you want to go across the whole state, you know I say Wilmington.00:09:12.000 –> 00:09:16.650 Joseph McElroy: Durham and then national and then, of course, Maggie valley for the small town experience.00:09:17.730 –> 00:09:18.150 Sarah Bryan: sure.00:09:18.570 –> 00:09:25.440 Joseph McElroy: Alright cool we're especially excited to talk to you about you, your role in the North Carolina folklife Institute.00:09:25.860 –> 00:09:39.600 Joseph McElroy: As you, as we have we share many of the same core beliefs and with the Heritage Center and at the motel first let's learn a little bit more about you, you and you have an interesting background and amazing resume.00:09:41.160 –> 00:09:47.340 Joseph McElroy: So you were born in myrtle beach South Carolina has How was it like being born in a beach town.00:09:48.690 –> 00:09:52.860 Sarah Bryan: Yes, but most of my childhood myrtle beach and.00:09:54.000 –> 00:09:56.850 Sarah Bryan: You know when you're born into play, or I was, I was actually.00:09:58.170 –> 00:10:11.490 Sarah Bryan: We moved there when I was two weeks old, but my father's family going back many generations is from that little part of South Carolina and myrtle beach in particular, and I think when you grow up in a place like that you kind of don't know how weird it is.00:10:11.910 –> 00:10:20.550 Sarah Bryan: yeah I know, I have a friend who is a childhood friend, we were talking years after we both left myrtle beach about.00:10:21.420 –> 00:10:31.680 Sarah Bryan: What it's like to be from somewhere like that, and she pointed out that it gives you kind of an altered sense of reality if you grow up like down the street from Ripley's, believe it or not.00:10:34.320 –> 00:10:36.750 Sarah Bryan: giant fiberglass octopus statues.00:10:37.650 –> 00:10:46.830 Joseph McElroy: Oh, you know growing up in a little tourist and I sort of get an idea of what she did you know, and you know from Duke we always went to myrtle beach after yeah for the spring break it was like.00:10:47.310 –> 00:10:55.800 Joseph McElroy: You know how how how bad can replace be when yeah you can take a back road and find all you can eat seafood place in the middle of nowhere.00:10:58.380 –> 00:11:01.110 Joseph McElroy: And you paid a paid as you went in because they.00:11:02.190 –> 00:11:04.260 Joseph McElroy: expect you to just stay there till your fault.00:11:06.090 –> 00:11:12.870 Joseph McElroy: But you also spend some time and grew up the Carolinas in Virginia beach Virginia what were those.00:11:13.560 –> 00:11:31.200 Sarah Bryan: yeah well I'm most of my family going back you know since early colonial times have been in the Carolinas both Carolinas and um when I was about nine we moved up to northern Virginia, which is where my mother grew up and.00:11:32.340 –> 00:11:35.370 Sarah Bryan: I missed the Carolinas badly when I lived there.00:11:35.520 –> 00:11:46.770 Sarah Bryan: Especially in the springtime but because you know just that little bit of geographical distance makes all the dust all the difference in a climate when the flowers come out and when it gets warm.00:11:47.640 –> 00:11:54.360 Sarah Bryan: It was a great place to spend my teens and my college years, so I feel fortunate to have been up there.00:11:55.080 –> 00:12:04.770 Joseph McElroy: With your parents surely must have influenced your love of history writing your mom is a distinguished author publisher story or own right, what can you say about that.00:12:05.970 –> 00:12:19.140 Sarah Bryan: yeah my mom is a wonderful writer her name is Christina freeman Brian and she is she has had an interesting career just 72 now and lives with me and my husband here in Durham and.00:12:20.310 –> 00:12:22.680 Sarah Bryan: yeah she went to Carolina and.00:12:23.700 –> 00:12:39.600 Sarah Bryan: studied originally to be a medievalist medieval Latin is her specialty from college and but has done all sorts of things over the years, she ran a school for several years and myrtle beach.00:12:40.830 –> 00:12:44.160 Sarah Bryan: Montessori school that I went to as a small child and.00:12:45.300 –> 00:12:46.440 Sarah Bryan: has written.00:12:47.610 –> 00:13:02.250 Sarah Bryan: A lot of really wonderful historical fiction about the civil war era about Jamestown colony about the Lincoln assassination plot and.00:13:02.730 –> 00:13:10.650 Sarah Bryan: She she's an amazing researcher fun to just incredible depth of information right, so these great books and.00:13:11.070 –> 00:13:22.260 Sarah Bryan: Then just move right to the next project she's so excited about the next thing to learn about so she has the stack of manuscripts, so I hope someday she'll be shopping to publishers because the world needs to see them.00:13:23.040 –> 00:13:28.710 Joseph McElroy: that's great, but we got to take a break down but we'll come back talk a little more about your personal history and then get into your job.00:15:45.570 –> 00:15:52.200 Joseph McElroy: howdy this is Joseph Franklyn McElroy back with the Gateway to the Smokies Podcast and my guests Sarah Bryan.00:15:53.910 –> 00:16:00.870 Joseph McElroy: So, so you know I like to have my craft beers on this show Now I will tell you.00:16:02.400 –> 00:16:11.400 Joseph McElroy: about the one I'm doing now, but, first, it was mentioned, I was at the wicked weed brewery nationally that day and they got a really great IPA call freak in page or advise you to go there.00:16:11.820 –> 00:16:15.600 Joseph McElroy: But I just discovered when we have at the Meadowlark it is not at local beer, but.00:16:16.080 –> 00:16:31.110 Joseph McElroy: yeah I don't necessarily just dismiss that you know, even though this area is 50 breweries there are people that make good beer elsewhere and I'm liking, this one it's a double IPA called never better by Coronado brewing company in California.00:16:33.330 –> 00:16:41.370 Joseph McElroy: But anyway, hey Sarah glad to have you back you know we were talking about your mom with your dad was a professional of American literature.00:16:42.000 –> 00:16:50.610 Joseph McElroy: But it was also I thought this is interesting we're now doing a miniature golf course designer including, including Mr the elaborate on the grand strand right.00:16:51.360 –> 00:17:00.360 Sarah Bryan: that's true yeah yeah my father dance Brian was his name, he went by the nickname party, which is a long story.00:17:02.100 –> 00:17:04.560 Sarah Bryan: Was the origin part of her in the Bible.00:17:06.540 –> 00:17:21.000 Sarah Bryan: yeah he was from myrtle beach grew up there, and his father and grandfather had been involved in developing the area early on, and particularly in building, so the golf courses, they are the big golf courses and.00:17:22.500 –> 00:17:34.380 Sarah Bryan: Starting around the 1950s I'd say late 50s early 60s, he started working on his own miniature golf courses with his father.00:17:36.360 –> 00:17:49.890 Sarah Bryan: put him in charge of an old golf driving range they had there, and he had the idea to make it sort of a jungle environment miniature golf course and that's where that.00:17:50.970 –> 00:18:10.680 Sarah Bryan: The head deal was born with him and he and partners through the years developed the jungle golf style of miniature golf courses, so if you've been to myrtle beach, you know what they look like it's the big mountain of dirt a middle of the lot with tropical plants waterfalls.00:18:13.230 –> 00:18:19.830 Sarah Bryan: jungle animals, which includes somehow savannah animals I don't know why, and so that that.00:18:21.000 –> 00:18:21.870 Sarah Bryan: That has.00:18:23.070 –> 00:18:27.630 Sarah Bryan: Over the course of his life that really took off from the late 50s to Stephen.00:18:29.640 –> 00:18:31.710 Joseph McElroy: He did a couple of value values didn't.00:18:33.060 –> 00:18:37.740 Sarah Bryan: You know I am not sure I think he did this before my time he did one in Boone.00:18:38.190 –> 00:18:41.250 Sarah Bryan: yeah and in the 70s early 80s there's one.00:18:41.310 –> 00:18:46.920 Joseph McElroy: that's there's one that has been around for a long time and I don't think that's a jungle-type golf, but there is one.00:18:47.940 –> 00:18:50.760 Joseph McElroy: That is more of a general type thing and so.00:18:51.090 –> 00:18:59.640 Joseph McElroy: He probably looks actually I when I first saw it back 20 years ago, or something like that I said wow that looks more like a myrtle beach.00:19:02.490 –> 00:19:05.400 Joseph McElroy: thing so but it's become part of the fabric here, you know.00:19:06.120 –> 00:19:06.510 So.00:19:08.040 –> 00:19:17.280 Joseph McElroy: And you're actually come from a diverse home you grew up and speak Spanish your family's confused compete Cuban dispense right.00:19:18.360 –> 00:19:21.240 Sarah Bryan: my mom is half Cuban.00:19:21.630 –> 00:19:27.420 Joseph McElroy: yeah, and I assume you have a real admiration for cultural diversity.00:19:29.970 –> 00:19:47.340 Joseph McElroy: That we love for exploring you know for folklife and in Florida, for you know, being a writer and musician in and you got your what your BA degree in American studies from George Washington university an ma degree in folklore unc I won't hold that against.00:19:49.980 –> 00:19:51.090 Sarah Bryan: call the truth for that.00:19:51.630 –> 00:20:04.530 Joseph McElroy: yeah but in 2005 you actually you join the North Carolina folklife institute so is that sort of the first big career move for you read what's up before that.00:20:05.070 –> 00:20:11.340 Sarah Bryan: That was an incredibly lucky break for me, I was not long out of Grad school and.00:20:12.300 –> 00:20:28.920 Sarah Bryan: North Carolina folklife Institute, which at the time was directed by Beverley Patterson who's a wonderful folklorist in Chapel hill she in the folklife institute we're working with the Blue Ridge national heritage area on developing their traditional artists directory.00:20:29.430 –> 00:20:40.560 Sarah Bryan: And she brought on to newly hatched folklorist which were me and Mark Free to you probably know, from when you use a prominent musician and arts leader in the area.00:20:41.100 –> 00:20:53.070 Sarah Bryan: But we were both you know in and just out of school at the time, this was long ago and yeah my first job was on the artists directory and so basically.00:20:53.670 –> 00:21:04.470 Sarah Bryan: The folklife institute turned us loose mark was in the northern counties and I was from like Madison and bunk and counties to the State Law and and.00:21:05.580 –> 00:21:17.130 Sarah Bryan: And, and the cherokee quality boundary area and it was a wonderful job I mean we just explored, each of us separately explored the counties in our.00:21:18.090 –> 00:21:25.860 Sarah Bryan: assigned region go around ask people who the traditional artists are in some cases, they were.00:21:26.400 –> 00:21:37.110 Sarah Bryan: You know, prominent people with you know well known careers and their and their art form and in other cases, that would be you know, an elderly person who'd retired from a career and something not at all.00:21:37.890 –> 00:21:46.890 Sarah Bryan: art or music related but you know kept up their art form just on their own at home because I love doing it, nobody you know.00:21:48.540 –> 00:21:54.840 Sarah Bryan: haven't had much publicity before but we got the right profiles of all of these folks and it was incredibly fun.00:21:55.530 –> 00:22:05.760 Joseph McElroy: Well, you, you must have loved it, because by 2017, which is a fairly short period of time he became executive director of that that that really esteemed organization.00:22:07.020 –> 00:22:12.570 Joseph McElroy: So I guess that was a That was a lot of hard work right.00:22:13.980 –> 00:22:15.120 Sarah Bryan: Hard work that really fun.00:22:17.070 –> 00:22:19.860 Sarah Bryan: The all the projects were involved in, or just.00:22:21.060 –> 00:22:23.130 Sarah Bryan: Oh it's such a pleasure to work on.00:22:24.180 –> 00:22:38.790 Joseph McElroy: Well, but you also here's The interesting thing you know, and you know found out that you, you became an old time fiddle player during that time, too, so you had to have time to practice right, but you were doing a lot of good work so.00:22:40.500 –> 00:22:43.260 Joseph McElroy: Have you played with any great Western North Carolina fiddler's.00:22:43.830 –> 00:22:48.930 Sarah Bryan: Well let's see I actually started playing old-time fiddle when I was in my teens.00:22:49.020 –> 00:22:49.470 Joseph McElroy: I really.00:22:49.980 –> 00:22:51.960 Sarah Bryan: yeah and actually I've been.00:22:52.080 –> 00:23:10.620 Sarah Bryan: In northern Virginia and yeah but have have continued playing all along yeah moving to North Carolina has I came back down here for Grad school in 2001 of the great things about that was proximity to so many wonderful musicians.00:23:10.800 –> 00:23:11.430 Joseph McElroy: Well that's great.00:23:11.460 –> 00:23:16.470 Joseph McElroy: yeah so did you get to play with any or did you get did you have any mentoring from some of them.00:23:16.830 –> 00:23:22.950 Sarah Bryan: yeah yeah there it's it's hard to narrow down there's so many amazing fiddler's in the year I was.00:23:23.970 –> 00:23:26.400 Sarah Bryan: If I had to pick one fiddler to.00:23:28.740 –> 00:23:41.850 Sarah Bryan: To mention, in particular, who have a friend who have been lucky enough to play with at times, but not nearly enough not nearly as much said, like is Paul Brown, who lives in Winston Salem.00:23:42.990 –> 00:23:47.700 Sarah Bryan: He is wonderful fiddler banjo player singer.00:23:49.470 –> 00:23:55.830 Sarah Bryan: Has the style that I wish I could play and very sort of sweet and rambunctious at the same time.00:23:56.970 –> 00:23:58.050 Sarah Bryan: And he also.00:23:59.580 –> 00:24:07.500 Sarah Bryan: he's he's been this great conduit between generations, because when he first moved to the Mount airy area.00:24:08.910 –> 00:24:17.280 Sarah Bryan: He got to know Tommy jerel or honesty's Fred copper Malta, you know the sort of Pantheon of great musicians in that area.00:24:18.330 –> 00:24:20.550 Sarah Bryan: And he's really served as a.00:24:21.840 –> 00:24:37.680 Sarah Bryan: champion of them over the years, so now, I mean for a lot of us who were not able to know those people through Paul we've gotten to know not just what great musicians, they were, but what interesting and knowledgeable people they were.00:24:39.780 –> 00:24:51.480 Joseph McElroy: Well that's yeah that's you know that's a life-enriching experience to work with people that have such tremendous depth and they're trying to actually pass it on to you too, and so.00:24:51.960 –> 00:25:02.190 Joseph McElroy: yeah I think that is probably very, very profound for you, you know I also know that you were on garrison keillor's prairie home companion that goes out.00:25:03.720 –> 00:25:23.610 Sarah Bryan: that that was a an exciting experience, not in all the right ways, so I have severe stage fright and which complicated that experience, because it was in front of a you know alive theater audience prairie home companion was going to be in Durham and.00:25:24.690 –> 00:25:32.220 Sarah Bryan: And the show invited you know, several old-time musicians in the area to be part of it, and of course I couldn't turn that down.00:25:34.050 –> 00:25:39.720 Sarah Bryan: But once I once I got there the stage right kicked in and.00:25:41.280 –> 00:25:49.710 Sarah Bryan: They before the show they we were backstage and Chris for sheer who's the band fiddler was the band fiddler those days.00:25:51.330 –> 00:25:53.850 Sarah Bryan: For the show was showing me and the other.00:25:54.990 –> 00:25:59.490 Sarah Bryan: guests fiddler's this tune that we were going to play when you know when our segment came on.00:26:00.510 –> 00:26:10.020 Sarah Bryan: And because I was starting to think about what it was gonna be like a few minutes when there is these hundreds of people looking at me and billions of people listening.00:26:10.740 –> 00:26:24.240 Sarah Bryan: my mind went blank and I couldn't learn the two, and he was showing us it was as soon as he played it, it was gone so that was that was the first tune what we're going to play that evening and.00:26:25.350 –> 00:26:35.490 Sarah Bryan: Because, as soon as they started I realized I didn't remember what you just showed us, I was like i'm you know sort of holding the bow a little bit above the strings of pretending to play.00:26:37.980 –> 00:26:41.340 Sarah Bryan: outside of Andy Griffith when barney's in the choir.00:26:41.340 –> 00:26:41.760 To.00:26:43.110 –> 00:26:57.000 Sarah Bryan: sing it was like that, but that, so the sound the sound engineer was you know kept he was listening and it kept thinking that my microphone is not working, so he came out at one point, and was like tinkering with it and.00:26:57.990 –> 00:27:03.000 Sarah Bryan: While he was standing there he realized that I wasn't playing and you sort of like wink to give me a thumbs up and.00:27:03.660 –> 00:27:18.990 Sarah Bryan: went off stage, but then the next tune that we were to play was soldiers joy, which is my favorite all time fiddle tune, and the one that, like all fiddler's pretty much know so I really wanted to play on that one but at that, point my microphone was off.00:27:20.790 –> 00:27:22.350 Sarah Bryan: pretending to play before.00:27:24.090 –> 00:27:33.720 Sarah Bryan: But the crisper shear and the other fiddler Kenny Jackson who's a really great North Carolina fiddler um you know they didn't need a third fiddler between them so.00:27:36.060 –> 00:27:39.000 Joseph McElroy: Oh that's so you you play, but you did.00:27:45.030 –> 00:27:46.740 Joseph McElroy: Okay well that's a good story.00:27:48.630 –> 00:27:50.190 Joseph McElroy: At least you got asked to be on there.00:27:53.220 –> 00:27:58.860 Joseph McElroy: So you've also become a writer, a great writer, and you have two books out right and.00:27:59.550 –> 00:28:07.920 Joseph McElroy: So when we come we got to take a break down, but once you tell us about the two books and then we're going to talk about some of the you know the stuff in the mountains in western North Carolina that you know that.00:28:08.220 –> 00:28:08.550 Great.00:30:15.150 –> 00:30:24.420 Joseph McElroy: Howdy, this is Joseph Franklyn McElroy back with the Gateway to the Smokies podcast and my guest Sarah Bryan who's the Executive Director of the North Carolina Folklife Institute.00:30:24.870 –> 00:30:32.670 Joseph McElroy: So so Sarah you're a writer you've got a couple of books out one coming out soon, what were the What are those titles and what they're about.00:30:33.330 –> 00:30:38.160 Sarah Bryan: Thanks um there, there are two titles of co-written.00:30:39.300 –> 00:30:49.680 Sarah Bryan: I was one of the three co-authors, along with Beverly Patterson and Michelle Lanier, who is now the Director of historic sites for North Carolina.00:30:50.160 –> 00:30:59.250 Sarah Bryan: I'm a book called African American music trails of Eastern North Carolina and that came out of a North Carolina Arts Council project of the same name.00:31:00.570 –> 00:31:07.080 Sarah Bryan: about the historic and living black music traditions in Eastern North Carolina counties.00:31:08.700 –> 00:31:16.560 Sarah Bryan: And you know just the incredible impact musicians from there have had it hasn't always been more widely recognized.00:31:17.040 –> 00:31:17.580 Sarah Bryan: That was.00:31:18.690 –> 00:31:24.000 Sarah Bryan: 2014 2015 my husband Peter Hoenig and I.00:31:25.500 –> 00:31:31.410 Sarah Bryan: co-wrote and co-compiled a collection for us to digital.00:31:32.490 –> 00:31:53.880 Sarah Bryan: Just a great label out of Atlanta, it was a TC set up the CDS were 78 from Peters collection of mostly old-time mountain music and blues and the book was antique anonymous photos of southern early southern life from my own collections.00:31:54.390 –> 00:31:55.980 Sarah Bryan: cool that that was.00:31:57.870 –> 00:32:02.670 Sarah Bryan: 2015 and that's out of print but it's still I believe the music is still downloadable.00:32:02.940 –> 00:32:03.330 Joseph McElroy: It was.00:32:04.740 –> 00:32:09.420 Sarah Bryan: It was called leap, can we light name for him a.00:32:11.130 –> 00:32:15.630 Sarah Bryan: Pre-war southern music and photographs I believe was the subtitle.00:32:16.050 –> 00:32:17.490 Joseph McElroy: cool and then you're writing one now.00:32:18.240 –> 00:32:32.520 Sarah Bryan: Yes, yeah I'm co-writing with potter and historian from Randolph county and help you, we are working on a history of southern traditional pottery which is.00:32:33.870 –> 00:32:41.190 Sarah Bryan: A huge story and we're you know, having fun figuring out how to fit that all into one book.00:32:42.690 –> 00:32:45.060 Joseph McElroy: yeah pottery trails all over the north.00:32:45.060 –> 00:32:45.540 Carolina.00:32:47.310 –> 00:32:47.970 Sarah Bryan: Especially.00:32:49.620 –> 00:32:59.520 Joseph McElroy: Well cool well, you also writing and the and the editor for the old time arrow, which is an about old music is also an old-time dancing.00:33:00.720 –> 00:33:17.490 Sarah Bryan: It is yeah yeah the old time, Harold the musician and field recorder Alice Gerard founded in 1987 when she was living in Gala and yeah it's about traditional old-time music, particularly in Appalachia but also.00:33:18.570 –> 00:33:24.570 Sarah Bryan: Other parts of the self, and you know wider traditions elsewhere that are relatable to music.00:33:25.380 –> 00:33:29.880 Joseph McElroy: Other parts are there any memorable stories you wrote about the smoky mountains areas.00:33:30.690 –> 00:33:34.200 Sarah Bryan: Oh gosh well not that I've written myself, but I would.00:33:35.580 –> 00:33:46.320 Sarah Bryan: There have been some great articles about Western North Carolina effect our current issue has a cover story about beach mountain musicians from.00:33:47.220 –> 00:34:00.840 Sarah Bryan: From the Whataburger every county line area and the old fiddler the universe to hicks is the cover girl she's a great musical matriarch from beach mountain.00:34:01.560 –> 00:34:03.750 Joseph McElroy: cool Any with Haywood County?00:34:05.010 –> 00:34:06.360 Sarah Bryan: yeah let me.00:34:08.580 –> 00:34:20.040 Sarah Bryan: we've definitely covered Haywood county stories, there was we had an article sometime back about the Soco gap clockers was that the name of the.00:34:20.520 –> 00:34:22.320 Joseph McElroy: Joe Sam Queen00:34:23.460 –> 00:34:23.700 Joseph McElroy: yeah.00:34:23.820 –> 00:34:24.690 Sarah Bryan: yeah yeah and.00:34:24.780 –> 00:34:26.940 Sarah Bryan: They danced at the White House and Roosevelt.00:34:27.780 –> 00:34:30.210 Joseph McElroy: yeah we have him on the show a few weeks ago yeah.00:34:31.080 –> 00:34:32.640 Sarah Bryan: yeah that's a great tradition that's.00:34:32.730 –> 00:34:34.470 Sarah Bryan: been going on for generations.00:34:35.490 –> 00:34:48.030 Joseph McElroy: cool so I love that you know that you work with this Folklife institute, I mean it's there's a lot of the value and objectives, promoting the preservation appreciation of understanding.00:34:48.600 –> 00:34:56.880 Joseph McElroy: The folklife heritage and culture in North Carolina yeah we're spoken we're focused on the smoky mountains area but it's the same sort of passion.00:34:58.440 –> 00:35:09.150 Joseph McElroy: I saw that you had one interesting program documenting the early bbq pitch, so I gotta go find this because I'm getting into I've been a big fire based.00:35:10.170 –> 00:35:19.830 Joseph McElroy: cook for a while and I've been getting more and more of that tell me about that what would you find out that that's fascinating about Barbecue pits early on.00:35:20.280 –> 00:35:21.360 Sarah Bryan: That was a project.00:35:22.440 –> 00:35:29.490 Sarah Bryan: Oh gosh probably eight or 10 years ago that the previous director Joy Salinger's launched and.00:35:31.080 –> 00:35:35.400 Sarah Bryan: The part that I was able to play was going to interview to00:35:36.990 –> 00:35:49.500 Sarah Bryan: founding fathers of the western Barbecue tradition, Mr. Damien Mr mountain Conan Greensboro and one and Lexington and I didn't tell either of them that I'm a vegetarian.00:35:51.120 –> 00:35:53.070 Sarah Bryan: It was lovely being in their restaurants it00:35:53.070 –> 00:35:54.120 Sarah Bryan: smelled great.00:35:55.680 –> 00:36:00.360 Sarah Bryan: Barbecue home for my family and yeah just lovely.00:36:00.480 –> 00:36:03.690 Joseph McElroy: You could do some wonderful things with vegetables and smoke, you know.00:36:04.320 –> 00:36:08.970 Joseph McElroy: yeah there's a recipe that comes out of the middle of the state that I love of US it's.00:36:10.170 –> 00:36:23.550 Joseph McElroy: This African American chef I forget her name right now I'll post it at some point that as smoke beats and then she makes cornbread beats so you think it's it's fabulous oh yeah and burnt sugar.00:36:23.700 –> 00:36:24.750 Sarah Bryan: Smoke oh wow.00:36:26.130 –> 00:36:36.990 Joseph McElroy: Oh it's incredible yeah so there's a lot of vegetables that are really enhanced by the grill experience yeah people know you know about doing just about some things but there's a lot more that you could do.00:36:38.220 –> 00:36:42.660 Joseph McElroy: Any programs cooking programs on mountain cooking or Cherokee cuisine00:36:43.590 –> 00:36:47.730 Sarah Bryan: yeah yeah absolutely that's where you're really.00:36:48.930 –> 00:36:52.620 Sarah Bryan: Love being involved in programs about Appalachian.00:36:53.670 –> 00:36:54.810 Sarah Bryan: Food in particular.00:36:55.830 –> 00:37:07.110 Sarah Bryan: Yeah we've had some classes, through a program called in these mountains, which is sponsored by South Arts in Atlanta, and have had to have several food-related courses.00:37:08.400 –> 00:37:16.680 Sarah Bryan: right before the pandemic began, we were working with Nathan Bush, who is a Cherokee herbalist and00:37:18.480 –> 00:37:29.010 Sarah Bryan: artist and language specialist and his mother, Mrs. Anita Bush is also a really renowned herbalist and so he was given a great class.00:37:29.910 –> 00:37:41.070 Sarah Bryan: Going into the woods and the area, and you know, showing which plants are edible which you got to stay away from which have different you know medicinal properties and.00:37:42.000 –> 00:37:51.150 Sarah Bryan: More recently, and in fact, going on now we're sponsoring an online class called mountain battles and it's taught by William Ritter00:37:51.570 –> 00:37:52.140 Joseph McElroy: Oh William,00:37:52.890 –> 00:37:53.490 Sarah Bryan: know there again.00:37:53.910 –> 00:37:55.020 Joseph McElroy: we're able to show you.00:37:55.080 –> 00:37:56.250 Sarah Bryan: Oh good good.00:37:56.370 –> 00:38:10.110 Sarah Bryan: yeah yeah yeah William from Mitchell county and he is teaching it's a great class we've only had two so far as and it's going to go into you know the summer and early fall and we are still taking.00:38:10.890 –> 00:38:27.870 Sarah Bryan: Taking students can still register anyone 13 and up and it's a free class just about you know heritage Appalachian crops cooking baking stories having to do with food songs having to do with food.00:38:29.370 –> 00:38:38.970 Joseph McElroy: We know here to here we've built our first guard here, right at the motel, we also put a field in at a farm and what we have.00:38:39.930 –> 00:38:47.850 Joseph McElroy: we're starting to really get into you know like I don't know if you've heard of candy roasters we got a whole bunch of candy restaurant or probably even better, believe it or not.00:38:49.080 –> 00:39:05.100 Joseph McElroy: And we're planning on doing a lot of those big breads and things like that, for those who don't know, can you rosters are like the pumpkin or squash family they're giant but oh long you know and they only really grow well the bounce but they're really sweet really fantastic.00:39:06.390 –> 00:39:19.410 Joseph McElroy: So I love that you're doing this kind of stuff and yeah we're gonna we're going to actually open a restaurant focus on merited mountain heritage food with a lot of traditional things and.00:39:19.680 –> 00:39:21.600 Joseph McElroy: And we just I don't know if you know Illa hatter.00:39:21.930 –> 00:39:22.950 Sarah Bryan: yeah yeah.00:39:23.040 –> 00:39:24.000 Joseph McElroy: He was just here.00:39:25.050 –> 00:39:29.100 Joseph McElroy: the day before yesterday, she did a program here and we had over 30 people show up.00:39:29.430 –> 00:39:40.680 Joseph McElroy: right here and learn how to forage and use it to make meals, a day so it's something that people are very interested in and it's great to look up that program you guys are doing.00:39:40.890 –> 00:39:42.660 Sarah Bryan: Definitely yeah join us, please.00:39:42.840 –> 00:39:54.480 Joseph McElroy: yeah another big thing that you're involved with this festival productions right documenting and talking about what's going on, do you have any favorite festivals in the western part of the state.00:39:55.230 –> 00:40:04.530 Sarah Bryan: Oh gosh yeah that's what it'd be hard to narrow down my favorite old-time festival in the world is Mount airy fiddler's Convention and.00:40:05.580 –> 00:40:17.610 Sarah Bryan: yeah I haven't gone for the last couple of years because of just pandemic strangeness but yeah I've been coming to that since I was about 20 and just fabulous.00:40:19.320 –> 00:40:26.280 Sarah Bryan: festival it's one of these events, where the old-time musicians from all over the world really come together and.00:40:26.670 –> 00:40:35.760 Sarah Bryan: meet the people who grew up in the traditions and you know are carrying it on from home and vice versa it's just it's wonderful.00:40:36.540 –> 00:40:56.700 Sarah Bryan: Another one I love and I'm not certain if it's still happening in the fading voices festival and takes place in snowbird the Cherokee Community near Robin school and it's Cherokee Gospel music and wonderful.00:40:57.720 –> 00:41:06.720 Sarah Bryan: Quartets mostly from the eastern band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina and Tennessee and also from the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma.00:41:09.570 –> 00:41:19.020 Sarah Bryan: Court that's will come from air to this festival and just incredibly beautiful music in this really, really beautiful little mountain cove and snowbird.00:41:19.800 –> 00:41:21.300 Sarah Bryan: wow that's still going on.00:41:22.320 –> 00:41:27.000 Joseph McElroy: look it up, you know, one of the most successful I thought you know the hospitality00:41:28.140 –> 00:41:46.830 Joseph McElroy: thing I actually saw in Barbados, was a Gospel Gospel brunch on Sunday, and it was huge, it was a big fantastic success people, it was all you know really sort of old time you know Gospel music this surprising place to have it is hugely successful.00:41:47.310 –> 00:41:49.050 Joseph McElroy: For the idea of doing that here.00:41:50.460 –> 00:41:57.360 Joseph McElroy: But you know he didn't you didn't the folklife it's two to one point put on the first statewide folk fest folk festival.00:41:57.930 –> 00:42:11.880 Sarah Bryan: That was our origin actually founded in 1974 to help the actually as an arm at that time of the folklife program with the North Carolina Arts Council and they were putting on.00:42:12.330 –> 00:42:23.250 Sarah Bryan: A statewide folklife festival here in Durham and it was sort of the lead up to the bicentennial so you know, there was a renewed interest in American traditions of all kinds.00:42:23.760 –> 00:42:26.460 Sarah Bryan: And that festival and 74.00:42:27.780 –> 00:42:41.220 Sarah Bryan: It just it's incredible looking back at who all was there as a Tammi Terrell Elizabeth cotton Willard Watson just yeah just some of the most wonderful let's kill on artists.00:42:41.880 –> 00:42:45.210 Joseph McElroy: Have you been involved with the phone booth two senators festival here at Haywood county.00:42:45.780 –> 00:42:49.260 Sarah Bryan: We haven't, but I would like to do great work.00:42:49.770 –> 00:42:52.650 Joseph McElroy: Alright cool I'll get that Bob did it he does pretty well.00:42:53.820 –> 00:43:00.810 Joseph McElroy: Well hey listen, we got to take a break and then we'll come back and talk continue talking about yeah folk folklife here in the mountains.00:45:02.610 –> 00:45:12.180 Joseph McElroy: Howdy, this is Joseph Franklin McElroy back with the gateway to the smokies podcast and I guess Sarah Brian so Sarah you know, one of the reasons I.00:45:13.260 –> 00:45:20.520 Joseph McElroy: You know started doing the mountain heritage stuff here and got involved with this, because I really believe in the importance of community education.00:45:21.120 –> 00:45:36.600 Joseph McElroy: And you know and getting you to know things right, where the Community can be involved with it and even online, you know inner interactions, what do you think about the importance of that and also the importance of oral history documentation that comes out of communities.00:45:38.280 –> 00:45:47.490 Sarah Bryan: I think I think it's an essential part of all of our lives and yeah Community arts and oral history and.00:45:48.510 –> 00:45:54.600 Sarah Bryan: far too few people nowadays experienced that, and you know, in a full way um.00:45:55.980 –> 00:46:03.180 Sarah Bryan: I'm not one of those people who thinks that you know the old days were better across the board, but, but I do think that the.00:46:05.130 –> 00:46:08.190 Joseph McElroy: closeness there's a lot of you there's a lot of beauty in it there's.00:46:08.190 –> 00:46:09.120 Sarah Bryan: Absolutely.00:46:09.360 –> 00:46:09.870 Joseph McElroy: There was also.00:46:10.320 –> 00:46:16.290 Joseph McElroy: A hardship and ugliness in there, but you're trying to preserve the beauty and letting the nastiness go away.00:46:16.620 –> 00:46:29.310 Sarah Bryan: Exactly exactly, and I think that that closeness of community is something that a lot of ways, many of us have lost and also more so over the last two and a half years with the pandemic.00:46:30.510 –> 00:46:43.320 Sarah Bryan: But then that makes it all the more essential for organizations like both of ours to create these opportunities whenever we can to help.00:46:44.070 –> 00:47:00.210 Sarah Bryan: Especially young people find out about traditions in their communities get to know elder artists or you know story storytellers people who know the Community history and yeah the more opportunities there are, the better.00:47:02.130 –> 00:47:06.780 Sarah Bryan: That makes me think in particular about the jam programs the junior Appalachian musicians.00:47:07.140 –> 00:47:07.710 Joseph McElroy: that's a great.00:47:08.310 –> 00:47:15.270 Sarah Bryan: yeah yeah I mean that's sort of a stellar example of creating new.00:47:16.560 –> 00:47:17.760 Sarah Bryan: Learning environments.00:47:19.230 –> 00:47:36.090 Sarah Bryan: Where you know, a young person 100 years ago may have been able to go to the next door neighbor or her next door neighbor and learn the banjo and that those links don't exist as a strong layer as frequently now so creating these.00:47:37.500 –> 00:47:47.190 Sarah Bryan: classes, essentially for young people to learn has been an amazing contribution to old-time and bluegrass music because now there's this whole.00:47:47.880 –> 00:47:59.370 Sarah Bryan: generation of young just incredibly good musicians, who are graduates of the jam program and you know counties throughout the Appalachian South and.00:48:00.510 –> 00:48:02.010 Sarah Bryan: You know, thank goodness for.00:48:02.250 –> 00:48:12.720 Joseph McElroy: For what you've actually cultivated network so that they can interact and learn from each other and prevent also promote artists and created a handbook for artists to promote them so sorry about that.00:48:13.770 –> 00:48:16.560 Sarah Bryan: that's, this is a good chance for me to.00:48:17.580 –> 00:48:24.450 Sarah Bryan: Tell listeners, please watch this space, because the artist's handbook is actually being revised, as we speak.00:48:26.790 –> 00:48:30.900 Sarah Bryan: The North Carolina Arts Council and Evan had to folk mode.00:48:32.310 –> 00:48:36.150 Sarah Bryan: Evan when he was with the North Carolina folklife so it was actually the.00:48:37.710 –> 00:48:58.800 Sarah Bryan: First person who started this project and yeah it's an online handbook in PDF format of ideas resources for traditional artists to get the word out about what they do, essentially to help them make a living if that's what they want to do with their art form.00:49:00.390 –> 00:49:07.710 Sarah Bryan: find opportunities to learn and to and to teach and pass it on so that's being revised, and you know things change so quickly.00:49:08.550 –> 00:49:20.220 Sarah Bryan: Especially in terms of technology that you know it needs to revision pretty quickly so that's what we're working on now, and hopefully it'll be back up in a new form in a few months.00:49:21.420 –> 00:49:30.720 Joseph McElroy: You know that's you know I guess the work of things like the blue Ridge heritage trail is all part of that work to give artists the ability to promote themselves.00:49:30.810 –> 00:49:37.020 Joseph McElroy: Absolutely, and in the state is that the statewide directory of artists as well, or is that a different.00:49:38.820 –> 00:49:42.330 Sarah Bryan: that's a different a different project and.00:49:43.410 –> 00:49:57.960 Sarah Bryan: One that I that also like for us to return to and revitalize it's it got started in with artists from Warren Vance and Halifax counties and sell to North Carolina and.00:49:58.770 –> 00:50:09.270 Sarah Bryan: yeah directory was very much like the blue Ridge national Heritage Area's traditional arts directory, you know modeled after that aimed for us a statewide.00:50:12.510 –> 00:50:13.020 Joseph McElroy: And you know.00:50:14.430 –> 00:50:14.790 Joseph McElroy: You know.00:50:17.100 –> 00:50:25.830 Joseph McElroy: yeah I love that the other there's a sensitivity to promote the diversity of what was what built, these are communities it wasn't just.00:50:26.160 –> 00:50:37.830 Joseph McElroy: Scotch Irish settlers and you've mentioned some charity works how about the Africa Fo Appalachians and fluids in the western part of the state and you were those documenting those are.00:50:38.880 –> 00:50:39.660 Joseph McElroy: Those anywhere.00:50:40.500 –> 00:50:41.700 Sarah Bryan: yeah yeah I think.00:50:43.320 –> 00:50:55.830 Sarah Bryan: I mean, of course, black Appalachian communities have always known that they were there themselves, but you know, those of us from other backgrounds, have not, you know, known as much as we should have about them and.00:50:57.630 –> 00:51:03.540 Sarah Bryan: there's one person whose research, especially excuse me I'm gonna have to pause for a second and call.00:51:05.490 –> 00:51:22.410 Sarah Bryan: The person who's done some really wonderful work in Southwestern North Carolina is Miller Woodford she's the founder of an organization called one doesn't do care and she's written a wonderful book which I happen to have here if I can hold the screen.00:51:23.550 –> 00:51:35.610 Sarah Bryan: it's called when all god's children get together a celebration of the lives of music African American people in far Western North Carolina, yeah and it talks about communities, particularly in.00:51:37.050 –> 00:51:39.840 Sarah Bryan: Making Cherokee clay counties.00:51:41.070 –> 00:51:53.220 Sarah Bryan: And Franklin area especially is very old African American communities that have wonderful rich histories and traditions and she's helping you know, bring a spotlight to that.00:51:54.780 –> 00:51:56.160 Joseph McElroy: wow well.00:51:58.620 –> 00:52:10.680 Joseph McElroy: This is all important work there are so many other things that you do you know when we're getting to the end here, you know I like to ask my guests, what are your some of your favorite places in western North Carolina Where would you recommend people go.00:52:12.030 –> 00:52:14.010 Sarah Bryan: Oh wow oh.00:52:18.480 –> 00:52:19.620 Sarah Bryan: gosh I mean.00:52:20.670 –> 00:52:22.020 Sarah Bryan: it's so hard to.00:52:23.190 –> 00:52:23.640 Joseph McElroy: focus.00:52:24.900 –> 00:52:27.240 Sarah Bryan: On a weekend I love haywood county um.00:52:27.570 –> 00:52:41.430 Sarah Bryan: Let me see Oh, there is a it right north of you are right, right up the road from you, one of my favorite views in all of North Carolina is on the road between Maggie Valley.00:52:41.790 –> 00:52:49.950 Sarah Bryan: And Cherokee if you're driving towards Cherokee look out to the right there's this incredible beautiful view of soco gap.00:52:51.240 –> 00:52:53.490 Joseph McElroy: is called the most photographed view and.00:52:54.420 –> 00:52:56.790 Sarah Bryan: that's the one that's got the little viewing tower and.00:52:57.990 –> 00:52:59.040 Sarah Bryan: It deserves that.00:53:01.170 –> 00:53:03.480 Joseph McElroy: i've been there since before I was born.00:53:06.900 –> 00:53:21.540 Joseph McElroy: Well it's been a pleasure, having you on the show we have to call it quits davin what's, what do you what would you like people to go to find out more information or looked up your books or read something really important things for them to find out more about you.00:53:21.990 –> 00:53:30.360 Sarah Bryan: Well, I would love for them to visit our website for the folklife Institute, which is nc folk Lol K dot O rg and see folk.org.00:53:30.990 –> 00:53:44.130 Sarah Bryan: And also, if they're interested in old time music old time music, in particular, old time harold.org they find a lot about appalachian and particular of Western North Carolina music.00:53:45.060 –> 00:53:50.250 Joseph McElroy: cool What about you, you get books, you get some things wherever they find out about that do you have a Facebook page or anything like.00:53:50.580 –> 00:53:52.470 Sarah Bryan: yeah you can find me on Facebook for sure.00:53:53.070 –> 00:53:54.300 Joseph McElroy: Alright fabulous.00:53:55.410 –> 00:54:00.870 Joseph McElroy: Well, thank you again, we might have to have another show, because you got a lot to talk about fabulous.00:54:01.560 –> 00:54:02.430 Sarah Bryan: fun, thank you.00:54:03.210 –> 00:54:21.120 Joseph McElroy: So this, this is the gateway to the smokies podcast you can watch this podcast live on facebook@facebook.com slash gateway to the smoke these podcasts we also have all the episodes recorded and with transcripts on smokies adventure calm.00:54:22.260 –> 00:54:30.060 Joseph McElroy: there's a link at the top, to bring you to all the different episodes that you can review we're also on the talk radio dot nyc network.00:54:30.390 –> 00:54:38.190 Joseph McElroy: Where they also stream the the audio live as well as on their Facebook stream and I advise you to take a look at all of the.00:54:38.760 –> 00:54:46.410 Joseph McElroy: podcasts on this network because it's a network of live podcast which I think is very interesting you get a lot of.00:54:46.980 –> 00:54:53.310 Joseph McElroy: The spontaneity and and extensive I think vibrancy by listening to things that are live.00:54:54.300 –> 00:55:03.840 Joseph McElroy: And they range from small business to self help to travel to stuff about New York City and and and other other parts of the world.00:55:04.620 –> 00:55:10.710 Joseph McElroy: So go there, if you get a chance, I also have another podcast for wise content creates wealth on that.00:55:11.400 –> 00:55:20.970 Joseph McElroy: On that network it's about marketing and Ai So if you get a chance to take a look at that and i'll see you next week again for another fine podcast.00:55:21.270 –> 00:55:29.790 Joseph McElroy: Always on Tuesdays from six to seven the gateway to the smoke these podcasts and appreciate you all for listening today and i'll see you then.

Asia Institute Crane House in Louisville was one of 17 organizations to be designated a Southern Cultural Treasure by South Arts. In this episode we talk with AICH Executive Director Joel Buno and South Arts Vice President of Programs Dr. Joy Young. We'll learn about what it means to be a Southern Cultural Treasure and how Asia Institute Crane House fits into that tapestry. BONUS AUDIO: Dr. Joy Young discusses other South Arts programs  Episode footnotes: Asia Institute Crane House website  South Arts website  About Southern Cultural Treasures  Contact Dr. Joy Young - joyyoung@southarts.org

Joy Young, Ph.D. serves as the Vice President of Programs for South Arts and has more than 25 years of experience in the arts as an entrepreneurial performing artist, arts administrator, and academic. Joy's work as a performing artist included owning a successful music studio and performing as a recitalist, sanctuary soloist, and studio and background vocalist. Her 14-year tenure with the South Carolina Arts Commission was highlighted by serving on the executive leadership team as the agency Director of Administration, Human Resources, and Operations. Prior to joining South Arts, Joy served as the Executive Director of the Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville.Joy enjoys sharing her experiences from the field in the classroom by preparing the next generation of arts administrators in the Master of Arts in Arts Administration at Winthrop University to be adaptive leaders. Joy holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music, Master of Arts in Voice Performance, and the Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership. Her research interests include arts leadership, program assessment and evaluation, and organization and leadership adaptations amid dynamic environmental paradigms.

April 20 is Chinese Language Day but perhaps more importantly, 4/20 is also Lima Bean Respect Day, National Banana Day, and National Cheddar Fries Day. Is there anything else that signifies this day? While you ponder that question, I’ll tell you that this is Charlottesville Community Engagement, a program back from a brief break and ready to get going with another year of information as it flows. On today’s program:Charlottesville City Council gets an update on what environmental staff are doing to plan for climate actionFatalities on Virginia roads reached a 14-year high in 2021Andy Parker concedes in the 5th District race to be the Democratic nomineePaul Goldman explains in writing to a federal judge why he thinks a House of Delegates race must be run this year And the Virginia House of Finance advances a bill to provide a three month period where fuel haulers would not have to pay a tax to the state of Virginia First shout-out goes to the Rivanna Solid Waste Authority for e-waste collection dayIn today’s first subscriber supported public service announcement, the Rivanna Solid Waste Authority wants you to know about Electronic Waste Collection Day coming up on April 23, 2022. Residents of both Albemarle County and Charlottesville have the opportunity to drop off old electronics from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Ivy Material Utilization Center. Permissible items include computers, printers, VCRs, stereos and televisions and people can dispose of up to ten items. Only two tube-style monitors or televisions per person! You must register in advance online where you will be give a time slot. Registration is limited to 110 people per hour. Visit rivanna.org for more information.Crashes reached 14-year high in Virginia in 2021Nine hundred and sixty-eight people died on Virginia roads last year. That’s the highest number in 14 years, according to the Department of Motor Vehicles. Fatalities were up in several categories including speed-related crashes, pedestrians, motorcyclists, young drivers, and bicyclists. The acting commissioner of the DMV is urging people to slow down, wear seat belts, and avoid distractions. “Vehicles and roadways are safer than they ever have been, yet we continue to lose lives to senseless crashes,” said Linda Ford, who is also Governor Glenn Youngkin’s highway safety representative. “Do your part to help.”Last year’s numbers in Virginia are part of a national trend toward higher fatalities in 2021 when over 31,000 people died across the United States in the first nine months. The full data for the whole country will be available later this year. 2022 might be worse than 2021. So far this year, 245 people have been killed on Virginia roadways, which is a 12 percent increase over last year. Parker concedes Democratic nomination to ThroneburgA candidate who failed to get a thousand signatures to be on the Democratic ballot in the June 21 primary has conceded to the only one who met that threshold. Andy Parker made his announcement via Twitter on Monday.“I was looking forward to a spirited primary and campaign against [incumbent Bob] Good but did not meet the technical requirements to be on the primary ballot,” Parker wrote in the tweet. Parker’s daughter was murdered on live television while doing a report from Smith Mountain Lake in 2015, along with her colleague. The default nominee, Josh Throneburg, noted this in his statement on Parker’s concession. "Andy is a person who rose from the ashes of his tragic personal loss and dedicated himself to a life of public service,” Throneburg wrote in a statement. “He was a tireless advocate who wanted to shield other families from the terrible grief he experienced, and I know his mission doesn’t end with this race.” First-term incumbent Bob Good faces Dan Moy in the Republican convention to be held on May 21 at Hampden Sydney College in Prince Edward County. That’s right in the middle of the new Fifth District as drawn by two Special Masters appointed by the Virginia Supreme Court last year to complete the redistricting process. Goldman files new motion arguing for oral arguments in suit to force 2022 Delegate electionWhen the statewide primary is held on June 21, will there be candidates for the House of Delegates on the ballot? Richmond attorney Paul Goldman hopes so and filed a new document on Monday arguing why Judge David Novak should not dismiss the case. To recap, Goldman filed suit against the Virginia Board of Elections last year asserting that their certification of the 2021 election was unlawful because the districts were based on the 2010 Census. Goldman argues that action violates the principle of “one person, one vote” because some legislative districts are much larger than others. “The old House District 87 ranked as the most populated with 130,192 inhabitants,” Goldman writes on page seven. “Old House District 75 ranked as the least populated with 67,404 inhabitants.” The response goes into detail in its claim that this deviation is unconstitutional and deserves a remedy in the form of an election this year based on the new districts. At heart, Goldman argues that none of the current members of the House of Delegates are in legally valid districts, citing the Cosner v. Dalton case that forced a House of Delegates race in 1982. (learn more on Wikipedia)Virginia’s Solicitor General has until April 25 to respond to Goldman’s response. Second shout-out goes to a Charlottesville Jazz Society event this weekendIn today’s second subscriber-supported shout-out, the Charlottesville Jazz Society is partnering with the Front Porch and the Tom Tom Festival to host musician Joel Harrison and Free Country this upcoming Saturday. The free show will feature the guitarist, composer, and vocalist with the touring band of Adam Larrabee on guitar, Stephan Crump on bass, and Jordan Perlson on drums. The timeless, haunting melodies of this music anchor the flights of improvisation that the band creates anew every night. The tour is funded in part by South Arts through the auspices of the Doris Duke Fund and the Jazz Road initiative. For more information, visit frontporchcville.org! Charlottesville City Council briefed on climate actionEarlier this year, the nonprofit group Community Climate Collaborative waged a campaign to get Charlottesville City Council to push staff toward meeting the city’s greenhouse gas emission goals. On July 1, 2019, Council adopted a goal of reducing community-wide gas emissions by 45 percent of 2011 levels by 2030, and to be carbon neutral by 2050. Council had an hour-long work session on the issue on Monday. Kristel Riddervold, the city’s environmental sustainability and facilities development manager, led off the discussion.“The city of Charlottesville has had an active climate program since 2007 when it committed to reducing community-wide greenhouse gas emissions by joining the U.S. Mayors Climate Protection Agreement,” Riddervold said. (watch the update)Riddervold said the City reaffirmed that commitment by also joining the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy, which offers resources for both reduction of gasses and adaptation to changing weather patterns. “We use the terms climate action to be the umbrella for both of these areas of focus,” Riddervold said. The presentation covered what work has been underway since the July 2019 goal was endorsed by Council. Riddervold said there have been stumbling blocks to preparing a specific climate action plan, and that includes the adoption of a new Comprehensive Plan. She also said going through several city managers during that time has been an issue, as has been the loss of top management in city government.“I for example have been serving not only as the environmental sustainability manager, but also since mid-2018, the facilities development manager, and have been pulled into a variety of roles and responsibilities,” Riddervold said. The city is currently taking applications for a climate program specialist to assist with planning and action. The job closes April 29, if you know of anyone. “What we are looking at now is a reboot of focused effort to bring this process back on the rails and to get back on the same page,” Riddervold said. Riddervold acknowledged the frustration on the part of climate groups and she asked for their support going forward.Susan Elliott, the city’s climate protection manager, said a climate hazard assessment is complete, a climate vulnerability assessment is underway, and the adaptation plan will be ready for review next year.“In parallel with these planning activities on these two tracks, we are also still delivering a program aimed at supporting and achieving greenhouse gas emissions across our community,” Elliot said. “What we have seen when we look at our emissions community-wide is that approximately 95 percent of emissions are coming from the community outside of our local government control and about five percent are from our municipal operations.” About 30 percent comes from residential, 30 percent comes from transportation, and 30 percent comes from commercial uses. That will inform where government resources will go. “This includes supporting and funding energy efficiency improvements including hundreds of home energy assessments annually, helping to find gap fill measures so that our low-income houses are as eligible for as many utility-funded programs as possible, providing EnergySmart home rebates, [and] the Commercial and Clean Energy Loan Fund,” Elliott said.Other recent initiatives:This month, the city hired CMTA Energy Solutions to review public buildings to see how energy and water usage could be reduced (press release)Charlottesville Area Transit is conducting a study of how vehicles might transition to alternative fuels Charlottesville participated in an urban heat island study last summer (press release)Lower occupancy in city buildings due to the pandemic lead to less water and energy use (press release)This morning, the city also released two public surveys to help inform future planning efforts. One is a climate action survey and the other is a climate vulnerability survey. Both will close on May 20. Youngkin’s bill to temporarily eliminate gas tax advances The Virginia General Assembly is in special session but have not had much action. Yesterday, the House of Delegates Finance Committee heard testimony of a bill sent down from Governor Glenn Youngkin that would waive the state motor fuel tax from May 1 to July 31. “The purpose for this bill is to help cut the cost for Virginia families and fight the price of gasoline that has increased 48 percent in the last 12 months,” said Delegate Tara Durant (R-28). “This uses unanticipated transportation revenues to provide Virginians much needed tax relief.”Under the bill, the tax would be restored to half-strength in August and September before going back to normal in October. Speaking to the bill, Transportation Secretary Shep Miller talked about its fiscal impact. “The revenue impact for the FY22-24 budget that I am responsible for is about $470 million,” Miller said. “That’s about a 12 percent reduction in the motor fuels over the 26 month period in question. The total [Commonwealth Transportation Fund] collections during that same period is about $14 billion. So this represents about a three percent reduction in the CTF collections during that period.”Democrats are skeptical that any of the reduction in the tax will translate to lower prices at the pump because consumers don’t actually pay the tax. Here’s Delegate Vivian Watts (D-39).“I wanted to make sure that the patron was aware that the gas tax is collected when the tanker truck fills up,” Watts said. “There’s no guarantee at all that when I fill up my tank that if there’s no gas tax charged that I’m going to benefit from this.” Delegate Sally Hudson (D-57) said many in the state want to invest more in transportation. “When I hear from Virginians, I hear them tell me that they think our transportation infrastructure or even behind, that the roads are too crowded, their commutes are too long, the buses are infrequent and unreliable,” Hudson said. “We have nothing approaching modern commuter trains.” Durant said no existing projects would be cut, but this would just lower the amount of funds available in exchange for tax relief. Testimony against the bill came from Virginians for Better Transportation, the Amalgamated Transit Union, the Virginia Transportation Construction Alliance, the Northern Virginia Chamber of Commerce, Virginians for High Speed Rail, the Old Dominion Highway Contractors Association, the New Virginia Majority, the Southern Environmental Law Center, the Commonwealth Institute, and the Virginia Association for Commercial Real Estate“This coalition includes some pretty strange bedfellows,” said Trip Pollard of the Southern Environmental Law Center. Testimony in favor of the bill came from a series of individuals representing small businesses or speaking to their own pain.“I’d rather spend the money than have the government spend the money,” said Colonel Courtney Whitney, who served in the Youngkin campaign. Democrats on the committee sought to introduce a substitute that would issue a direct tax relief to Virginians for each registered motor vehicle, but the effort failed. 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Nina Parikh has been with the Mississippi Film Office for 23 years, currently serving as the director. Established in 1973, the Film Office is one of the oldest of its kind in the world. The office's mission is to foster the growth of the film industry in Mississippi, connect filmmakers with necessary resources and to cultivate and promote filmmaking by, for and about Mississippians.She studied filmmaking at the University of Southern Mississippi and New York University, began her career as a freelance camera assistant, worked in the industry as a producer, and teaches a film production class at Millsaps College. She produced the Mississippi made film “Ballast” which won two awards at Sundance Film Festival in 2009. She serves on the boards of 3 college-level institutions, advising on film & media curriculum development; developed the curriculum and served as director for the Canton Young Filmmakers Summer Program; and co-wrote a book about digital video for the amateur.Nina is a co-founder and board member of the Crossroads Film Festival & Society and Mississippi Film Alliance, a non-profit supporting indigenous filmmaking. Additionally, she serves on the boards of the Association of Film Commissioners International, South Arts, Mississippi Book Festival, Creative Mississippi, and is a producer of TEDxJackson.Most importantly, she's a wife and a mom to their 12 year old son.

Renowned musician Bobby Previte is coming to Greensboro for a week of live, improvisational shows and masterclasses with students. The residency was made possible with the help of Kate Museelwhite Tobey and The Platform Creative Collective who is our guest on this episode. All of these events are supported by Jazz Road, a national initiative of South Arts, which is funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation with additional support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. https://www.instagram.com/katemtobey/?hl=en https://www.eventbrite.com/e/blueprints-live-shows-at-revolution-mill-tickets-274331923167?aff=ebdssbcitybrowse

In today's episode, we will learn the amazing life and career of a man who has dedicated his life to the study of early mountain music.  He is dedicated to preserving the history, talent, and culture of old time music.Joseph is joined by our special guest, William Ritter, He is an award-winning historian, author, folklorist, singer, songwriter, can play almost any stringed instrument, is an expert on heirloom seeds and has devoted a good part of his adult life to documenting the contributions of old-time Appalachian musicians and ballad singers.https://www.songtoseed.com/#/https://sarahandwilliam.weebly.com/Tune in for this fun conversation at TalkRadio.nyc or watch the Facebook Livestream by Clicking Here.Segment 1Joseph opens today's show mentioning a couple of events coming up. The Meadowlark Smoky Mountains Heritage Center which is located at the Meadowlark Motel is having a series of twenty heritage themed events scheduled for this year to inform people about different elements of Smoky Mountain culture. The first event is this Saturday. Another event is about fly fishing. The motel is offering a fly fishing camp weekend. Their goal is to bring like minded people together through fly fishing, food, camp and more. Learn more at meadowlarkmotel.com. Joseph also reads the lyrics of “The Storyteller” written by Mike Jones, a folk singer in the 1980s. He then introduces his guest today, an award winning historian, author, folklorist, singer, and songwriter, William Ritter.Segment 2Joseph talks with Ritter about an event Ritter did where he did a performance of an adaptation of Sheakspeare's MidSummer Night's Dream. He worked with a group of young actors who were in college and mentions how special it was for him to work with them and being a part of their early experiences in front of an audience. They also discuss the Happy Valley Fiddlers Convention, which Ritter has been a part of in the past. The convention was on a two year hiatus but will be back this year. Ritter speaks about what makes the Smokies special for him. He mentions the mountain culture and the scenes of nature around the area. He also mentions the food being special. The culinary tradition is something he says is much different from something you'd find outside of the Smoky Mountains. It's very unique.Segment 3Ritter talks about growing up going to the Penland School of Craft where his parents were also instructors. He also talks with Joseph about working with Bob Plott, the manager at the Meadowlark Motel and with Bobby McMillion, ballad singer, musician, and storyteller. Ritter was able to do performances with McMillion. Through the North Carolina Arts Council in partnership with a foundation called South Arts, they put together a grant opportunity for a mentor and an apprentice to study together. Ritter was trying to find an apprentice for Bobby and Bobby told Ritter that he should be the person. He was able to document Bobby going on the road to performances. Ritter would record their conversation during their rides in the car and mention the great stories Bobby would talk about with him on stage and on their rides. Ritter describes how special Bobby was as a storyteller as he'd make you feel like you were speaking to a random person at a bar or anywhere else. He made it feel intimate and not so much like a performance in front of a lot of people. He was the same person on and off stage. Ritter talks more about McMillion's life, his passing, and the Bobby McMillion Project to continue his legacy. Segment 4Ritter is booked for a special concert at the Meadowlark Smoky Mountain Heritage Center's Plot Fest Reunion in June. he says that there will be a mix of different ranges of country music, Appalachian culture, and mentions several artists and storytellers of influence. Joseph asks him about how he stays active as a musician during these different times since the pandemic began. Ritter says that he recently tried something new called Riverside FM, where you can record audio and videos with good quality. They both talk more about the mediums used for storytelling and different platforms. The advanced technology today has created a lot of opportunities for creators. To find out more about what William Ritter is up to, you can go to blueridgeheritage.com as well as sarahandwilliam.weebly.com. Joseph thanks William Ritter for joining him again for today's podcast episode.

Episode 13: New & LAST episode of “Art Life Stories” for 2021! Kara Tucina Olidge, PhD is a scholar and arts and educational administrator. She serves as the executive director of the Amistad Research Center at Tulane University in New Orleans, LA and is the former deputy director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a branch of the New York Public Library based in Harlem. 

Paige Barnett, Director of “A Song of Visions - DANCE, OPERA & JAZZ,” a unique dance, opera, and jazz performance to be held at the historic St. John's Episcopal Church in Washington LA, joins Discover Lafayette to discuss her foray into the world of production and fundraising for artistic endeavors. The performance will be held on November 6, 2021, at 1 pm and again at 4 pm. It is choreographed by Nicole Curtis and will be presented within the chapel and on the grounds of St. John's Cathedral located at 308 Church St, Washington, LA 70589. Paige had always wanted to offer a creative production at a spiritual place and St. John's ended up being the perfect setting; her boyfriend actually offered up the site as a safe and spiritual place for her to consider after attending a wedding there. The Washington Garden Club welcomed the opportunity to offer St. John's as the locale for the performance, especially as the COVID times are being left behind (we hope!). Paige Barnett has known since she was a young dance student that her calling was in the arts, in particular dance. Melding her talent in art with a desire to create relevant performances, "A Song of Visions - Dance, Opera and Jazz" brings these dreams to life. The performance focuses on 'women's consciousness," issues such as "When are you getting married? When are you having babies? When are you......??" Paige wanted to present an artistic creation that addressed these Southern cultural norms in a comical, respectful way that all people in our community can relate to. As the performance opens up, Sasha Massey, the cantor at St. John's Cathedral in downtown Lafayette, serves as the bride and songstress. Paige shared that there is a surprise for Act II as the guests get to walk outside and participate in the Second Act. There will be some spoken word along with singing and dancing. Paige shared, "The audience will enjoy going along for the ride as the play unfolds." The first act will take place inside the church and the second act will invite audience members to walk outside for the reception and experience a surprise experience which will make their attendance enjoyable. Washington, Louisiana, and its mayor, Dwight Landreneau, have been working diligently to prepare visitors as they visit this delightful small town and prepare for "A Song of Visions," as have the beloved members of the Washington Garden Club. As many antique shoppers know, there are a plethora of shopping opportunities for anyone entering the Washington LA city limits! You can travel to the Washington Old Schoolhouse Mall and shop during the morning hours prior to the event. The hope is that you and your friends have a delightful day of relaxing, shopping, and enjoying fine dining in this quaint town that takes you back to simpler days. St. John's Episcopal Church in Washington, LA is the site for 'A Song of Visions.' Washington is a great place to visit to shop and enjoy historic sites. The Washington Old Schoolhouse Mall offers a fun place to shop for antiques and one-of-a-kind artifacts. It's worth a trip north! Many well-known dancers will also be participating in the event, including Clare Cook of Basin Arts who has mentored Paige in the ways of learning how to direct, create' and present a successful event. Please listen to the entire interview to hear Paige credit all of the creative talents who make this show possible! Buy tickets at https://www.vpbarnett.com/ This project is funded in part by grants from South Arts in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the Louisiana Division of the Arts, as well as a Louisiana Project Grant from the Louisiana Division of the Arts, Office of Cultural Development, Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council, as administered by the Acadiana Arts Council. This project is also supported in part by ArtSpark,

In this episode of the Behind the Curtain Podcast, I had the chance to speak with director Nicholas Bruckman and producer Amanda Roddy, creators of the documentary Not Going Quietly, a film that tells the story of Ady Barkan, activist and founder of the Be a Hero organization. Following his diagnosis of ALS, Ady sets out to travel the country and change American Politics. Southern Circuit screenings are funded in part by a grant from South Arts, a regional arts organization, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts. For more information about Southern Circuit and South Arts please visit www.southarts.org/southerncircuit.

Welcome to As Loud As I Want, a podcast that reflects the experiences of young women in rural Columbus County, North Carolina through the COVID-19 pandemic. We use spoken word and sound to share what we've been feeling, seeing and hearing in our communities. This podcast was created by a series of workshops where we learned about poetry and the arts of sound.  In this episode, Hannah Ellis of Whiteville, NC shares her piece, "It's What You Do."This workshop and podcast are funded in part by a grant from South Arts in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts, with additional support from North Carolina Local News Lab and the Working Narratives Production and Education Fund. Learn more about our work and other audio productions at www.shoresides.org. Produced by Coastal Youth Media, Community CPR, and Hannah Ellis. Hosted by Indya Barfield. "It's What You Do"Nightmares exist.Sometimes we can't escape them.To each is own;Everyone has an opinion.Despair and destruction,The world's darkest meaning.SometimesWe can't change What they sayOr what they do.But It's what you doThat changes things.It's your voiceThat will bring the worldTo lightOr darkness.It's your choicesThat will either bringA call for peaceOr painful suffering.Music: Unsilenced by KetsaSounds:Anti-Mask Protesters Storm SoCal Malls and Markets | NBCLA via YouTubeCoronavirus update: WHO chief declares the coronavirus a global pandemic by CNBC Television via YouTubePassenger forced off flight for not wearing a mask l GMA by Good Morning America via YouTubeRefusing to Wear a Mask in Defiance of Public Health by VOA News via YouTube

Welcome to As Loud As I Want, a podcast that reflects the experiences of young women in rural Columbus County, North Carolina through the COVID-19 pandemic. We use spoken word and sound to share what we've been feeling, seeing and hearing in our communities. This podcast was created by a series of workshops where we learned about poetry and the arts of sound.  In this episode, we give our concluding thoughts. This workshop and podcast are funded in part by a grant from South Arts in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts, with additional support from North Carolina Local News Lab and the Working Narratives Production and Education Fund. Learn more about our work and other audio productions at www.shoresides.org. Produced by Coastal Youth Media, Community CPR, and Indya Barfield. Music: Unsilenced by Ketsa

Welcome to As Loud As I Want, a podcast that reflects the experiences of young women in rural Columbus County, North Carolina through the COVID-19 pandemic. We use spoken word and sound to share what we've been feeling, seeing and hearing in our communities. This podcast was created by a series of workshops where we learned about poetry and the arts of sound.  In this episode, Aunya Kirksey of Bolton, NC shares her piece, "It's Time To Game."This workshop and podcast is funded in part by a grant from South Arts in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts, with additional support from North Carolina Local News Lab and the Working Narratives Production and Education Fund. Learn more about our work and other audio productions at www.shoresides.org. Produced by Coastal Youth Media, Community CPR, and Aunya Kirksey. Hosted by Indya Barfield. "It's Time To Game"During the pandemic, I spent a lot of time gaming. Mystery games, challenge games, story games.Games that you could just doWhatever you like. Some people think it's wrong, While some say it's life. No time to fight, Because that don't feel right. Make a career out of gaming. May be ridiculous to some. I go to another dimension. It takes away a lot of tension, Like if you come home From a stressful day at school,Wou could just go on your tablet Or you whatever you have And play on it. Some people say I spend a little too much on it. I'm in the middle about that. Makes me want to stay in the house more, But it gave me something to do at home. To me it's not lame, So it's time to game. Music: Unsilenced by KetsaSounds:Fortnite Season 5 Solo Win No Commentary Gameplay Mandalorian by Anthony Allen via YouTubeGAMING CAREERS: How to Get a Gaming Related Career // Turn Gaming into a Career by ewby via YouTube

Welcome to As Loud As I Want, a podcast that reflects the experiences of young women in rural Columbus County, North Carolina through the COVID-19 pandemic. We use spoken word and sound to share what we've been feeling, seeing and hearing in our communities. This podcast was created by a series of workshops where we learned about poetry and the arts of sound.  In this episode, Brooke Manning of Bolton, NC shares her piece, "At Home, In Bolton."This workshop and podcast are funded in part by a grant from South Arts in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts, with additional support from North Carolina Local News Lab and the Working Narratives Production and Education Fund. Learn more about our work and other audio productions at www.shoresides.org. Produced by Coastal Youth Media, Community CPR, and Brooke Manning. Hosted by Indya Barfield. "At Home, In Bolton"When I was at home during the pandemic, I just walk around my neighborhood, Play with my dog, Sit inside. I see woods, I see green, I see poor dogs. I smell that pollen, I smell the sap on a trees, the dried up sap, the wet sap that's coming down the tree. I just see family around Bolton. My daddy knows about everybody In Bolton, So I can't really do nothing Bad. Bolton is just a home where you could just relax, But you can't get too comfortable. You just got to be safe. During the pandemic, I spent more time inside Than outside. It used to be a trailer, But they turned into a house. My grandma, me, my cousin,My siblings, my mom, my dad. And then you got my aunt that lives there too. Sometimes I just hear peaceful, The birds are tweeting. The most peaceful is at 4:00, 5:00 or 6:00. The school busses come around 7:00 And sometimes come at 6:00. It feels home, It feels like I'm safe. Music: Unsilenced by KetsaSounds: Around the House - Desk Fan, Humming by Stuart Duffield via ArtlistDogs - Alleyway Dog Barking by Craig Carter Collection via ArtlistViaduct, Vehicles Passing Slowly and Braking, with Down Town Ambiance in The Background by Carlos Santa Rita via Artlist

Welcome to As Loud As I Want, a podcast that reflects the experiences of young women in rural Columbus County, North Carolina through the COVID-19 pandemic. We use spoken word and sound to share what we've been feeling, seeing and hearing in our communities. This podcast was created by a series of workshops where we learned about poetry and the arts of sound.  In this episode, Nettie Greene of Bolton, NC shares her piece, "Nettie's Life."This workshop and podcast are funded in part by a grant from South Arts in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts, with additional support from North Carolina Local News Lab and the Working Narratives Production and Education Fund. Learn more about our work and other audio productions at www.shoresides.org. Produced by Coastal Youth Media, Community CPR, and Nettie Greene. Hosted by Indya Barfield. "Nettie's Life"It's a sunny day. Wind blowing. Cars rolling. Dogs barking and howling. I sit in my room on the phone, Daydreaming. I daydream about Shopping. Swimming. Hanging out with friends, Seeing loved ones And more. Relaxing on my cold bed. Feeling the cool air is Relaxing. Hearing TikToks and Watching them Are joyful. I miss the old days, But life goes on. Once the night comes, It gets calm. And peaceful. I get to go to sleep Until the next day arrives. Music: Unsilenced by KetsaSounds:Around the House - Desk Fan, Humming by Stuart Duffield via ArtlistBackyard Action - Dusk, Cricket Chirps by Badlands Sound via ArtlistDogs - Alleyway Dog Barking by Craig Carter Collection via ArtlistFunny TIK TOK June 2021 (Part 2) NEW Clean TikTok by Cool TikTok

Welcome to As Loud As I Want, a podcast that reflects the experiences of young women in rural Columbus County, North Carolina through the COVID-19 pandemic. We use spoken word and sound to share what we've been feeling, seeing and hearing in our communities. This podcast was created by a series of workshops where we learned about poetry and the arts of sound.  In this episode, Faith Jacobs of Buckhead, NC shares her piece, "Powwow Daydreaming."This workshop and podcast is funded in part by a grant from South Arts in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts, with additional support from North Carolina Local News Lab and the Working Narratives Production and Education Fund. Learn more about our work and other audio productions at www.shoresides.org. Produced by Coastal Youth Media, Community CPR, and Faith Jacobs. Hosted by Indya Barfield. "Powwow Daydreaming" When I close my eyes, I hear bells on men's regalias. I hear them jingling As they walk around the arena. On the outskirts, The men and women are around the drum As they sing in unison. I smell the sage, Burned to bless the grounds. The leather backing From the beadwork on my regalia. I hear the MC announce my category, Teen Girls Traditional. The singers prepare to sing My contest song. As I hear the first beat, Boom. I take a deep breathAnd get ready to dance. We move counterclockwise To the beat of the drum. There is a tension and a balance Between grace and dancing hard. The more I bend my knees, The more my shawl sways. I'm floating. The first honor beat comes. I start to bend Slowly And as the beat picks up, I rise, My heart beating. I take deep breathsTo keep emotion from my face. When I open my eyes, I see the bright green walls of my bedroom. There will be no dancing this year, Just the hum of TV. The whir of the fan. I am alone with my daydreams of powwows. Music: Unsilenced by KetsaSounds: Foley, Jingle bells, repeated by DB Sound ArtlistStep it Up - Footsteps, Barefoot on Hard Floor, Walking, Slow Steps, Feet Brushing Surface by Fly Sound via ArtlistParks and Suburbs - Walks, Children Play Voices, Distant Birds and Vehicles by La Burbuja via Artlist“WARPAINT 3/3 @ Seminole Tribal Fair PowWow 2018” by TurtleIslandsFinestDesigned - heartbeat, dark, distant by Marcello Del Monaco

Welcome to As Loud As I Want, a podcast that reflects the experiences of young women in rural Columbus County, North Carolina through the COVID-19 pandemic. We use spoken word and sound to share what we've been feeling, seeing and hearing in our communities. This podcast was created by a series of workshops where we learned about poetry and the arts of sound.  In this episode, Indya Barfield of Whiteville, NC shares her piece, "Quarantine."This workshop and podcast is funded in part by a grant from South Arts in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts, with additional support from North Carolina Local News Lab and the Working Narratives Production and Education Fund. Learn more about our work and other audio productions at www.shoresides.org. Produced by Coastal Youth Media, Community CPR, and Indya Barfield. Hosted by Indya Barfield. "Quarantine"Covid changed everything, our lives will never be the same. Thinking back to how things Used to be,Riding down to Myrtle Beach Walking to Coastal Grand Mall Or through Broadway.How can anyone stay sane?Wearing masks every day.The feel of paper against my cheeks, No smiles from strangers.It's a different type of pain. No fun,No walking the aisles of Wal-Mart On Columbus Corners Drive. The sweet smells From the bakery at the front As I picked out my favorite Sugar scrub. Greeting family members, Classmates from high school. No games, No deep conversations with Nyasia from Hallsboro, Trinity from Fayetteville. My mom says to quarantine, And I do. Everyone is beginning to complain. Out of work, Out of money. Checking our bank accounts, Waiting for the stimulus. Shortages on toilet paper.When Whiteville hears A hurricane is coming, It's gone:Bread, water, toilet paper. This is the same. Where there's sunshine There's rain.Is this a never ending Pandemic game? Lost loved ones. Friends grieve grandmothers. Broken families. I try not to focus on it As I drive to a new job,Mask on,Making do with what I have. Music: Unsilenced by KetsaReflections on the Water (ft. DYEBRIGHT) by SPEARFISHER via ArtlistSounds: Unemployment Claims Rise To Nearly 50 Million Amid Coronavirus Pandemic by NBC News NOW NC toilet paper maker: ‘We can't keep up with demand'. By Fox 46 CharlotteSupermarket - Store Ambience, Checkout, Scanning Products Beeps by Shirley SpikesCityscape and Streets  - Pedestrian Mall, Walla, Footsteps by West Wolf

Welcome to As Loud As I Want, a podcast that reflects the experiences of young women in rural Columbus County, North Carolina through the COVID-19 pandemic. We use spoken word and sound to share what we've been feeling, seeing and hearing in our communities. This podcast was created by a series of workshops where we learned about poetry and the arts of sound.  In this episode, Autumn Webb of Buckhead, NC shares her piece, "Unfocused."This workshop and podcast is funded in part by a grant from South Arts in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts, with additional support from North Carolina Local News Lab and the Working Narratives Production and Education Fund. Learn more about our work and other audio productions at www.shoresides.org. Produced by Coastal Youth Media, Community CPR, and Autumn Webb. Hosted by Indya Barfield. "Unfocused"Focus scatters. Dislike. 8 a.m. It felt like 90 minutes of pain. So tired. The brightness of the computer. Hurts my eyes. It felt weirdIn a way I didn't like. At home, I got to lay down At lunch. It was like when we was a kid And had naps during school. I listen to music while I do work. It was hard, Being at home And trying to learn. The noise made it Harder to concentrate. Instead of desks and chalkboards, I see the TV, The hum of Cocomelon in the background. The warmth of the computer on my lap. Realizing my friends wasn't around. These two years, I feel like I've learned less. Felt more difficult, Being in class. Every year, I look forward to powwow. Pandemic can't take away Our connection Or the taste of fear When I go to take a test. I love the sound when I type on the computer. I didn't want To wake up early. I was so used To waking up late. Summer break. Unusual. Not the same. We've been on our ownThe whole time. Long, tired days. Working hard On my summer job at Subway. Into August, Into my senior year. Terrified, But also excited for a normal year. Music: Unsilenced by KetsaIn the Clouds by Be Still the Earth via ArtlistSounds:Digital alarm clock beeping by DB studios via Artlist Joy Ride by Aves via ArtlistTyping on keyboard by Airborne Sound via Artlist

Welcome to As Loud As I Want, a podcast that reflects the experiences of young women in rural Columbus County, North Carolina through the COVID-19 pandemic. We use spoken word and sound to share what we've been feeling, seeing and hearing in our communities. This podcast was created by a series of workshops where we learned about poetry and the arts of sound.  In this episode, Rakyah Jacobs of Buckhead, NC shares her piece, "This Is 17."This workshop and podcast is funded in part by a grant from South Arts in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts, with additional support from North Carolina Local News Lab and the Working Narratives Production and Education Fund. Learn more about our work and other audio productions at www.shoresides.org. Produced by Coastal Youth Media, Community CPR, and Rakyah Jacobs. Hosted by Indya Barfield. "This Is 17"In the Morning, The dew on the grass Fresh. I walk slowly to My white Acura. I'm headed to school with My cousin Callie On Old Lake Road Toward East Columbus in Lake Waccamaw. Keep Straight five minutes, and It's on your right. In the middle of the pandemic, I got my independence. July 9, 2020 In Fayetteville. I was with Anastasia and all I could feel was Butterflies. Nervous, scared. But in the mornings When I drive with Callie, I feel Calm. I see pine trees as far As the road reaches. Little houses, churches,Miss Linda's. I feel my diamond steering wheel, The leather seatsBeneath me. Rap music Blasting. I ride this road Five times a day. I've been on it more times Than I can count, From home in Buckhead To Whiteville, Myrtle Beach, Fairmont And places in between. But now it's sweeter That I'm taking the wheel. This is 17. Music: Unsilenced by KetsaDreamstates by Will Van De Crommert via ArtlistCurious George by Nate Rose via ArtlistSounds:Quiet morning birds chirping in the distance by re:focus via ArtlistStep it Up - Footsteps, Barefoot on Hard Floor, Walking, Slow Steps, Feet Brushing Surface by Fly Sound via ArtlistCar blinkers on, engine on, interior sound by ClapStudios via ArtlistLand Rover - Drive, Variable Medium Speed, Interior by Fly Sound via ArtlistCar - engine start interior by Clap Studios via Artlist

Welcome to As Loud As I Want, a podcast that reflects the experiences of young women in rural Columbus County, North Carolina through the COVID-19 pandemic. We use spoken word and sound to share what we've been feeling, seeing and hearing in our communities. This podcast was created by a series of workshops where we learned about poetry and the arts of sound.  In this episode, Jayonna of Bolton, NC shares her piece, "Wrong."This workshop and podcast is funded in part by a grant from South Arts in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts, with additional support from North Carolina Local News Lab and the Working Narratives Production and Education Fund. Learn more about our work and other audio productions at www.shoresides.org. Produced by Coastal Youth Media, Community CPR, and Jayonna. Hosted by Indya Barfield.  It was Friday the 13th, March 13th, 2020. I didn't know life would change. They told us we would be out of school For two weeks. At first, I thought it would be a good break. Little did I know things would Change so fast. I was in seventh grade,And I didn't think coronavirus Would be that big of a deal. I was wrong. Actually, I liked the idea Of us being out of school. I thought I wouldn't be doing any work, And I could chill. I was wrong. My gma had me up the first MondayChopping grass. It was so itchy. That was wrong. I had to do packets of schoolwork. They thought I'd be doing the work packet. They were wrong. Then they had us to pick up our Chromebooks And told us to be online by 8 a.m. Me and my friends thought it would be easier Doing schoolwork at home. We were wrong. Finally, I got out for summer. I thought I would be enjoying A break from school. I was wrong. My gma. Yep. She had other ideas. That first week we were back in the garden. Picking corn in that itchy grass. That was wrong, August came, and I thought I'd be back in school. I thought I would be able to experience All that was eighth grade. I was wrong. They put me in theater arts. We just watched videos. If people think that is a good way to learn, tThey are wrong. I did get to practice with the cheer team. I finally got to do something I actually wanted to do. That felt right. However, we didn't get to cheer at any ball game, And I didn't get to experience eighth grade formal. That was wrong. It is now a Wednesday in May, May 26, 2021. Nope, I had no idea How much life would change. They said it would be two weeks, But it's been a whole year and two months. Things that changed so fast Became things that changed for so long. I was wrong.Music: Unsilenced by KetsaSeparation by ANBRSounds:Ambiences - Vol 1 - Large Gym, Few People, Reverberant by Julien MattheyZoom Doorbell Sound Effect by JedSpielbergTheatre Arts - Terms & Concepts by Richard SchniderNC Schools to remain closed for rest of yearNC schools closed as new coronavirus case in Wake County reported

Welcome to As Loud As I Want, a podcast that reflects the experiences of young women in rural Columbus County, North Carolina through the COVID-19 pandemic. We use spoken word and sound to share what we've been feeling, seeing and hearing in our communities. This podcast was created by a series of workshops where we learned about poetry and the arts of sound.  In our first episode, we'll share the process we used to create our own spoken word pieces, which can be found in the following episodes. This workshop and podcast is funded in part by a grant from South Arts in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts, with additional support from North Carolina Local News Lab and the Working Narratives Production and Education Fund. Learn more about our work and other audio productions at www.shoresides.org. Produced by Coastal Youth Media and Community CPR. Hosted by Indya Barfield. Featuring spoken word artists Brittani Smith (#PropheticPoetic, #JourneyBBones), Israel Sorenson, and Charlene Hunt. Music: Unsilenced by KetsaSounds:Food Vlogger Frying Vegetables Oil Sizzling by Marcello Del Monaco via ArtlistRain Dropping on Wooden Bridge Binaural by Guy Fleisher via Artlist

  "Don't turn yourself down." That's advice Joyce Garner gives to her fellow Kentucky artists about taking opportunities to advance and promote their work. Joyce was recently named the Kentucky State Fellow in the South Arts Southern Prize competition. Her work will be considered, along with state fellows from each of the South Arts member states, for the $25,000 Southern Prize, which will be announced in a FREE virtual ceremony on June 17. For this episode of the podcast we talked to Joyce about winning the state fellowship, her journey to art, and what inspires her. Episode footnotes: Description of the Southern Prize competition Joyce Garner's artist statement and work Register to watch the 2021 Southern Prize Awards Ceremony on June 17

A dive into this South Arts-directed national initiative that creates new ways for artists to tour and plan residencies throughout the U.S. Learn about getting a grant to bring your music (and band) to new audiences, with an emphasis on mixing rural, lesser-known and alternative presenters with dates at traditional jazz venues. Moderator: Sara Donnelly. Panelists: Jaimie Branch; Orrin Evans; Lisa Giordano; Rory Trainor.

Episode 47 features Sherrill Roland, an artist who spent too many months in prison for a crime he did not commit. Sherrill Roland is an interdisciplinary artist who creates art that challenges ideas around controversial social and political constructs, and generates a safe space to process, question, and share. He was born in Asheville, NC, and received an MFA in Studio Art from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Inspired by his experience in prison for a crime he did not commit, he founded The Jumpsuit Project to raise awareness around issues related to mass incarceration. Roland’s socially-engaged art project has been presented at Open Engagement Chicago, Oakland City Hall, and the Michigan School of Law. He was awarded the Center for Documentary Studies Post-MFA Fellowship in the Documentary Arts at Duke University in Durham, NC, and the Rights of Return USA Fellowship. After completing the Fountainhead Residency in Miami, Florida, Roland returned to North Carolina as an artist-in-residence at the McColl Center of Art + Innovation. In December, Sherrill was a recipient of the 2021 Creative Capital Award and the South Arts 2020 State Fellowship Award last May. Please see links for additional information. https://www.sherrillroland.com/ https://www.jumpsuitproject.com/ https://www.southarts.org/grant-fellowship-recipients/sherrill-roland https://creative-capital.org/2020/12/08/the-2021-creative-capital-awards/ https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674919228 http://www.numberinc.org/return-and-revisit-a-conversation-with-sherrill-roland/ https://www.charlotteobserver.com/entertainment/arts-culture/article235666932.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherrill_Roland https://qcitymetro.com/2019/09/06/sherrill-roland-sheds-light-on-mass-incarceration-through-art-residency/

Welcome to Where I Come From. We are a group of young women going on a journey about our lives in Columbus County, North Carolina. We have explored where we are from by telling our own stories, exploring our communities, listening to folks and trying to see Columbus County from a new perspective. In this episode, Rakyah Jacobs, 16, gives us a glimpse into her life as part of the Waccamaw Siouan Tribe in the Buckhead community in Bolton, NC.Where I Come From is a project of Coastal Youth Media in collaboration with Community CPR in Whiteville, North Carolina. This project is funded in part by a grant from South Arts in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the North Carolina Arts Council. With additional funding from North Carolina Local News Lab Fund. 

Welcome to Where I Come From. We are a group of young women going on a journey about our lives in Columbus County, North Carolina. We have explored where we are from by telling our own stories, exploring our communities, listening to folks and trying to see Columbus County from a new perspective. In this episode, Whitley Dockery, 16, tells us where she comes from.Where I Come From is a project of Coastal Youth Media in collaboration with Community CPR in Whiteville, North Carolina. This project is funded in part by a grant from South Arts in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the North Carolina Arts Council. With additional funding from North Carolina Local News Lab Fund. 

Welcome to Where I Come From. We are a group of young women going on a journey about our lives in Columbus County, North Carolina. COVID-19 has brought new realities to our workshop, school and family.  We aren't going to let it stop our exploration, but we wanted to take a minute to acknowledge what was happening in our lives.  Where I Come From is a project of Coastal Youth Media in collaboration with Community CPR in Whiteville, North Carolina. This project is funded in part by a grant from South Arts in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the North Carolina Arts Council. With additional funding from North Carolina Local News Lab Fund. 

Welcome to Where I Come From. We are a group of young women going on a journey about our lives in Columbus County, North Carolina. We documented our process, and today we're talking with members of our community about the hurricanes they've lived through and how it's shaped their lives. Featured Voices (In Order of Appearance): Vanessa Tart Ward, Ethel Godwin, Doris Dockery, Earnestine Boone, Christine Patrick, Leon Dockery, Tahitian McKenzie, Jackie Ray-Pierce.Produced By: Rakyah Jacobs, Whitley Dockery, Tyashia McKenzie, Camryn Ray, Kamora Ridgeway, and Jordan Newkirk. Where I Come From is a project of Coastal Youth Media in collaboration with Community CPR in Whiteville, North Carolina. This project is funded in part by a grant from South Arts in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the North Carolina Arts Council. With additional funding from North Carolina Local News Lab Fund. 

Welcome to Where I Come From. We are a group of young women going on a journey about our lives in Columbus County, North Carolina. We documented our process, and we're starting off by sharing a little bit about the places and people we come from.Where I Come From is a project of Coastal Youth Media in collaboration with Community CPR in Whiteville, North Carolina. This project is funded in part by a grant from South Arts in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the North Carolina Arts Council. With additional funding from North Carolina Local News Lab Fund. 

Welcome to Where I Come From. We are a group of young women going on a journey about our lives in Columbus County, North Carolina. We documented our process, and today we're sharing about objects that remind us of where we come from.Where I Come From is a project of Coastal Youth Media in collaboration with Community CPR in Whiteville, North Carolina. This project is funded in part by a grant from South Arts in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the North Carolina Arts Council. With additional funding from North Carolina Local News Lab Fund. 

Malcolm White talks to photographer Ashleigh Coleman, who was recently named the 2020 State Fellow for Mississippi by South Arts. As a mother living in rural Mississippi, Ashleigh’s work often focuses on a sense of place and the requirements, complexities and messiness of motherhood. The two discuss the award, Ashleigh’s inherited Hasselblad camera and more. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Jeremiah Ariaz Jeremiah Ariaz artworks explore the West as both a physical space and a terrain for the imagination. For his most recently completed project, Louisiana Trail Riders he was the recipient of a 2018 ATLAS grant, the Michael P. Smith Award for Documentary Photography from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, the Southern Arts Finalist Prize from South Arts, as well as being named the Louisiana State Fellow. The photographs have been exhibited nationally and a monograph of the work was released last fall by UL Press (2018). His forthcoming project TUCUMCARI is a decade-long work focused on the New Mexico town while providing a window to the country at the time of a changing workforce and increasing economic inequality. The photographs create a portrait of a distinctly American place caught between a vanishing past and an uncertain future. Ariaz is a Professor at Louisiana State University. Homer Joseph Decuir Jr. (center) of Bad Weather Stables Louisiana Trail Riders K-State, Museum installation Louisiana Trail Riders, Jeremiah Ariaz, UL Press, 2018. 

Meet Lori Larusso, Lexington visual artist and the South Arts Kentucky State Fellow in the third annual Southern Prize competition. Lori represented Kentucky among the nine other State Fellow, each from one of the South Arts member states, last month at the Southern Prize awards ceremony in Columbia, S.C. On this episode we’re chatting with Lori about her life in art, the work that earned her the distinction of Kentucky State Fellow and what awards like that, and her 2012 Al Smith Individual Artist Fellowship, have meant to her as an artist. Episode footnotes: Work that Lori Larusso submitted to South Arts for consideration for the Southern Prize General information on the South Arts Southern Prize The Bo Bartlett Center in Columbus, Ga., where the Southern Prize exhibit, including works by Lori Larusso, will be on display through the summer Lori Larusso’s website

Teresa Hollingsworth is the Program Director for Film and Traditional Arts at South Arts. She Coordinates and is the Director of the Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers. She has a masters degree in ‘Folk Study’ from Western Kentucky University. She previously worked in Arts Administration as Folklorist and Traditional Arts South Arts was founded in 1975 to build on the South’s unique heritage and enhance the public value of the arts. South Arts’ work responds to the arts environment and cultural trends with a regional perspective. We offer a portfolio of activities designed to address the issues important to their region and to link the South with the nation and the world through the arts. They work in partnership with the state arts agencies of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana,  Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. South Arts is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, member states, foundations, businesses and individuals. Their mission is advancing Southern vitality through the arts. South Arts also have a variety of touring programs. Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers brings the best of new independent film to communities across the South. Audiences have seen over 300 films in more than 100 Southern communities. South Arts works collaboratively with Screening Partners to expand their programming, provide audiences with the opportunity to meet filmmakers and learn about the art of filmmaking, and encourage community engagement using film as a conduit for discussions about social and community issues. Invited filmmakers are paid to screen their work and engage with new audiences, travel expenses covered!   Teresa said their goal is to build audiences for independent films. Films must be feature and can be either Narrative, Documentary, Experimental or Animation. This season the Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers will include short films by filmmakers living in the Southern States. South Arts and the Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers are excited for two of their filmmaking teams that were nominated for Academy Awards; “Hale County This Morning, This Evening” by Ramell Ross and “Minding the Gap” by Bing  Liu and Diane Quon. Teresa also talks about some of the other great films and filmmakers that they toured this season. Lastly, Teresa shares great advice for filmmakers.   For additional information visit: https://www.southarts.org You can also follow them on: Twitter: https://twitter.com/SouthernCirc Instagram: www.instagram.com/southerncircuit/ Facebook: www.facebook.com/southarts/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/southartsorg

Susie Surkamer is Executive Director of South Arts, based in Atlanta, Georgia.  South Arts is one of six regional arts organizations established by the National Endowment for the Arts and state arts councils to help facilitate arts across state lines.  Their mission is powerful:  Advancing Southern vitality through the arts. Visit South Arts at:  www.southarts.org   See:  The South Arts Strategic Plan 2019 - 2023

Turry Flucker speaks with Dominic Lippillo. Dominic is among nine visual artists from around the region receiving a State Fellowship from Atlanta, Georgia-based and MAC‘s regional partner South Arts. In addition to Mississippi, this year’s recipients represent Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. Dominic Lippillo's work questions the role of photography by making digitally constructed images that address notions of space versus place, memory, and experience. Selections of his collaborative work are included in the permanent collections of The Museum of Photographic Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa; and the University of North Dakota. His work has been published in Don't Take Pictures, Exposure, Daily Serving, and The Eye of Photography See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Hemmed in by what she 'should' be writing, Clare Beams turned a corner by freeing herself to write what would become the title story in her phenomenal collection WE SHOW WHAT WE HAVE LEARNED. James was fortunate enough to edit one of Clare's stories for ONE STORY, and they discuss that experience as well as putting her collection together, how she ignored advice to maintain a consistent level of weird, and exploring the limitlessness of short fiction. Plus Emily Smith, publisher at Lookout Books, describes the unique program at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.  -  Clare Beams: http://www.clarebeams.com/ Clare and James discuss:  Columbia University  "The School" by Donald Barthelme  Kelly Link  Aimee Bender  Alice Munro  Hannah Tinti  Annie Hartnett  HAYDEN'S FERRY REVIEW ECOTONE  LOOKOUT BOOKS THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY THE NEW YORKER ONE STORY Beth Staples  Emily Smith  Erin Kottke  BINOCULAR VISION by Edith Pearlman  PEN: Robert Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction  Young Lions Fiction Award  - Lookout Books: http://www.lookout.org/index.html Emily and James discuss: The Sewanee Writers' Conference  Michelle Brower  ECOTONE  National Endowment for the Arts Association of Writing Programs  David Gessner  Jeff Sharlet  The Publishing Laboratory  Stanley Colbert  THE BOTTLE CHAPEL AT AIRLIE GARDENS: A TRIBUTE TO MINNIE EVANS  BACKYARD CAROLINA by Andy Wood  THE HATTARASMAN by Ben Dixon MacNeill BINOCULAR VISION by Edith Pearlman GOD BLESS AMERICA by Steve Almond Beth Staples  Anna Lena Phillips Bell  Melissa Crowe BELOIT POETRY JOURNAL   HONEY FROM THE LION by Matthew Neill Null  South Arts  "Granna" by Clare Beams  "We Show What We Have Learned" by Clare Beams  Ben George  WHEN ALL THE WORLD IS OLD: POEMS by John Rybicki  RIVER BEND CHRONICLE by Ben Miller  MADRAS PRESS  Sumanth Prabhaker  Corinne Manning  THE JAMES FRANCO REVIEW PLOUGHSHARES  REDIVIDER  ONE STORY  INSURRECTIONS by Rion Amilcar Scott  - http://tkpod.com / tkwithjs@gmail.com / Twitter: @JamesScottTK Instagram: tkwithjs / Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tkwithjs/

Jeanette Guinn is an arts management professor at the College of Charleston and the producer, writer and hosts of Arts Daily, a public radio show. Before coming to the College she worked as an art manager including 25 excellent years at the South Carolina Arts Commission where she was Director of Performing and Presenting, Director of Electronic Communication and Planning, Regional Arts Coordinator, Director of Special Projects and intern but not all at the same time. Watch a video of Jeanette's "Arts and the Media at Spoleto" Maymester course: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWy3IJ6crCA She has served on panels for the National Endowment for the Arts, South Arts and many state arts agencies. She was co-curator of Making Music for the City Arts Series at Bank of America Plaza in Columbia, SC and a juror for Gallery ETV. For three years, she was an adjunct in the Arts Management Program and is pleased to have former students working throughout the US. She hosted her first live show at WUSC in Columbia. She earned a Bachelor of Music and a Master of Media Arts from the University of South Carolina and a certificate in Arts and Technology from Columbia University. A native of Loveland, Ohio, Jeanette has lived in seven states. She has two daughters in college and a retired greyhound. Jeanette is an INFP. If you are one too, please introduce yourself.