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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.

It's holiday baking season. In this edition of "Vital Voices," we learn all about the dried apple stack cake, a decades-old dessert popular in the Appalachian region.

We find out more about the life and times of the late Chet Atkins, with music historian Don Cusic, author of a new biography of the famous guitarist.

We discuss the subject of living in exile with Alex Fraga, owner of Hemingway’s Cuba in Asheville, North Carolina. Alex’s late father, Tony, and his family were forced to leave Cuba in 1960 because of the oppressive regime of dictator Fidel Castro. Hemingway’s Cuba is a symbol of the family’s resurgence and recovery.

We look back on the life of perhaps the most influential guitarist of the 20th century, the late Chet Atkins, originally from Luttrell, Tennessee. Our guest is Atkins biographer Don Cusic.