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Salvation South

Salvation South

Georgia Public Broadcasting

Salvation South

Self-Improvement History Places & Travel English

Salvation South editor Chuck Reece comments on Southern culture and values in a weekly segment that airs Fridays on GPB Radio.

Salvation South is an online magazine inspired by hope, healing and — most importantly — the desire to create a place on the web and a community of people where civil conversation can happen. We celebrate the culture of the South, and discuss issues of importance to our region.

Deluxe: When the Place You Come From Is Gone

Deluxe: When the Place You Come From Is Gone

What happens when the place that made you who you are vanishes completely? Writer Tracy Thompson and poet Annie Woodford share stories of Southern landscapes lost to progress——and the particular grief called solastalgia. From red oak groves in south Atlanta to furniture mill towns in Appalachia, this episode explores what we lose when home disappears.

Ted Turner, Walking Contradiction

Ted Turner, Walking Contradiction

Since the death of Atlanta media mogul Ted Turner, outlets all over the world have broadcast accounts of his giant ambitions, his creation of the twenty-four-hour news cycle in which we all live today, and his work as an environmentalist. Salvation South magazine editor Chuck Reece has some thoughts about the essential Southernness that underlaid everything Turner did.

Mama's Letters

Mama's Letters

On Sunday, families all over Georgia will celebrate Mother’s Day, taking moms out to brunch and buying presents. Others, whose mothers are no longer with them, will sift through memories. The mother of Salvation South magazine editor Chuck Reece died when he was just 11 years old. His memories of her were scant — until recently, when he found some hidden treasures.

Who Makes the South’s Best Biscuit?

Who Makes the South’s Best Biscuit?

During this pledge week, GPB has been asking our listeners, “Who has the best biscuits in Georgia?” Hundreds of you have put your answers on social media, but we haven’t seen anything close to a general agreement on the answer. That fact does not surprise Salvation South editor Chuck Reece.

“Can I Fix You Something?”: Love, Loss, and The Irish Goodbye

“Can I Fix You Something?”: Love, Loss, and The Irish Goodbye

Salvation South Deluxe sits down with Beth Ann Fennelly—poet, novelist, and inventor of the “micro‑memoir”—to talk about her latest book, ‘The Irish Goodbye: Micro-Memoirs.’ In a conversation that ranges from Alzheimer’s and caregiving to hyperrealistic nude portraits of folks in Oxford, Mississippi, Fennelly explains why she’s done “Photoshopping” her life and how telling the smallest stories...

Pollenocalypse

Pollenocalypse

This is the time of year in Georgia when, after every rain, the puddles left behind are yellow, thanks to an abundance of pine pollen. Some people sneeze at the pollen, some people curse at the pollen, and some people find a great deal of humor in it. Salvation South magazine editor Chuck Reece is one of the latter.

Deluxe: Word of South - See What Happens

Deluxe: Word of South - See What Happens

A city‑hall slush fund, a dissenting vote, and a rainy weekend in Tallahassee accidentally created Word of South, the South’s most unlikely laboratory for music and literature. In this episode of Salvation South Deluxe, Chuck Reece walks Cascades Park with co‑founder Mark Mustian, hears BJ Barham of American Aquarium and novelist Kristen Arnett blow up old ideas about who counts as Southern,...

Breakfast at the H&H

Breakfast at the H&H

Last week, Salvation South editor Chuck Reece delivered a lecture at Mercer University’s Center for Southern Studies in Macon. The next morning, he had breakfast at the H&H, a restaurant that’s been feeding Maconites for nearly seventy years. A restaurant that has stories of its own to tell about the South.

Deluxe: Abe Partridge and the Weight of Southern Faith

18 February 2026

Deluxe: Abe Partridge and the Weight of Southern Faith

As a young, fiery pastor in a crater town in Kentucky, Abe Partridge thought he had finally found the rock to build his life on. Then his faith collapsed, and his ministry went with it. In this in‑depth conversation, Abe joins host Chuck Reece and writer Tad Bartlett to explore dark years, snake‑handling churches, punk rock mosh pits, and how songs and paintings became a quieter kind of prayer.

Is New Orleans the Real Home of Mardi Gras?

11 February 2026

Is New Orleans the Real Home of Mardi Gras?

What is the biggest party in the South? Some say it happens every year in Jacksonville, Fla., learning up to the annual Georgia/Florida football game. But really, the biggest party in the South — and maybe the biggest, longest party in the world — is Mardi Gras in New Orleans. Salvation South magazine editor Chuck Reece is here with some Mardi Gras history that might surprise you.