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We talk with Marilyn Mascaro, a member of the Tennessee Mountain Writers organization, about her new book, When the Rivers Flowed. It’s the non-fiction story of her grandparents and their lives together in Knoxville, Tennessee, as the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the Tennessee Valley Authority were being planned and created.

We visit a home kitchen in Southwest Virginia to learn about the late summer ritual of making the garden-clearing relish known as chow-chow. Kay Wade and her family have been using the same chow-chow recipe since 1952.

One of the world's leading experts on the cultures of the American South, Dr. John Shelton Reed, takes a look at a classic New Orleans cocktail.

We remember the 2022 floods in Eastern Kentucky with flood survivor and documentary filmmaker Willa Johnson, a native of Letcher County, Kentucky.

Pulitzer-Prize-winning historian and biographer Taylor Branch is featured in a discussion with East Tennessee State University history professor Dr. Daryl Carter, recorded at the annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Prayer Breakfast in Johnson City, Tennessee. Branch is one of the most prolific chroniclers of the American civil rights movement and the leadership of Dr. King.

Our guest is John U. Bacon, author of The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Currently on the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list, the book recounts the story of the sinking of the freighter in the waters of Lake Superior, resulting in the deaths of the 29 crewmen, on November 10, 1975. This is part one of two “Vital Voices” programs with John Bacon.