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In the series finale of About South, we travel to the E.W. Shell Fisheries Center at Auburn University to discuss a subject near and dear to our hearts -- crayfish. Jim Stoeckel, an Associate Professor at Auburn, and Brian Helms, an Assistant Professor at Troy University, generously share with us their knowledge, expertise, and enthusiasm for this small yet remarkable creature.

About South is produced by Gina Caison, Kelly Vines, and Adjoa Danso.
Jessica Parker is an assistant producer.
Music is by Brian Horton. You can find his music at www.brianhorton.com.
Learn more at www.aboutsouthpodcast.com.

In this special short episode, we hear from several listeners who have made About South possible. Series finale airs Friday, November 15.

About South is produced by Gina Caison, Kelly Vines, and Adjoa Danso.
Jessica Parker is an assistant producer.
Music is by Brian Horton. You can find his music at www.brianhorton.com.
Learn more at www.aboutsouthpodcast.com

This week's guest practically needs no introduction because you've been listening to him on our show for years. Dr. Brian Horton is a professor at North Carolina Central University, a jazz history scholar, and a prolific musician. Gina calls him up to talk about all of the above and music programs at historically Black colleges and universities.

About South is produced by Gina Caison, Kelly Vines, and Adjoa Danso.
Jessica Parker is an assistant producer.
Music is by Brian Horton. You can find his music at www.brianhorton.com.
Learn more at www.aboutsouthpodcast.com.

In this week’s episode, we present our first full-length phone interview with returning guest Dr. Tara Bynum, a Mellon research scholar in African American history at the Library Company of Philadelphia, and Assistant Professor at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. Tara takes us back in time to an era before the Revolutionary War in Newport, Rhode Island, where we are introduced to an enslaved man named Cesar Lyndon, whose remarkable story offers us a glimpse into colonial enslavement and pre-Revolution commerce.

About South is produced by Gina Caison, Kelly Vines, and Adjoa Danso.
Jessica Parker is an assistant producer.
Music is by Brian Horton. You can find his music at www.brianhorton.com.
Learn more at www.aboutsouthpodcast.com.

This week, we keep it in the family as Gina sits down with new About South co-producer Jessica Parker. Jessica grew up in Fayette County, GA, home of the Line Creek Petroglyph, a large, engraved rock with a complicated history. Jessica first learned about the petroglyph when it became the subject of national news -- because someone had stolen it. Years later, she and Gina attempt to solve the mystery of the Line Creek Petroglyph.

About South is produced by Gina Caison, Kelly Vines, and Adjoa Danso.
Jessica Parker is an assistant producer.
Music is by Brian Horton. You can find his music at www.brianhorton.com.
Learn more at www.aboutsouthpodcast.com.

In this week’s episode of About South, we travel to St. John the Baptist Parish in Louisiana to meet with Ashley Rogers, executive director at the Whitney Plantation museum and memorial site, to discuss the history of plantation enslavement in the U.S. South. As the only plantation museum in Louisiana with a focus on slavery, its rare and vital approach in exhibiting the area’s gruesome agricultural industrial complex sheds light on one of the most painfully minimized eras of American history.

About South is produced by Gina Caison, Kelly Vines, and Adjoa Danso.
Jessica Parker is an assistant producer.
Music is by Brian Horton. You can find his music at www.brianhorton.com.
Learn more at www.aboutsouthpodcast.com.