Our first conversation of 2024 is with John T. Edge. He's an acclaimed author, the host of TrueSouth on ESPN/SEC Network, Director of the Mississippi Lab at the University of Mississippi, the founding director of the Southern Foodways Alliance, resident of Oxford, Mississippi and child of Jones County, Georgia.
In this episode John T. takes us back to his childhood in Clinton, Georgia, talks about the infuence his mother and father have had on his life, explores the vicissitudes of his career, shares his fascination with lost worlds and underworlds and Underground Atlanta, gives us a lesson on change, and recounts how Oxford, MS became his true homeplace.
All things John T. Edge:
Mentioned in this episode:
A Brief History of Thought: A Philosophical Guide to Living by Luc Ferry
My Mother's Catfish Stew by John T. Edge | Oxford American
The Angolite, Prison Acitivist Resource Center
The Third Life of Grange Copeland by Alice Walker
White Trash Cooking by Ernest Matthew Mickler
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut
General Alfred Iverson's Birthplace Historical Marker - Clinton, Jones County, Georgia
Senator Iverson's Speech - January11, 1860
King Coal by Elaine McMillion Sheldon
Blair Hobbs - University of Mississippi
Remembering Emmett Till by Dave Tell
Gorilla by Lee Stockdale
A Place Like Mississippi by W. Ralph Eubanks
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