At the Welcome Table Down South House & Home

Kate VanCantfort talks about growing up as the daughter of a broadcasting family and what it was like to leave the South.

The veteran journalist (and raconteur of the finest sort) Kay Powell joins Stacy Reece at Down South House & Home's welcome table — the first of our chats with ordinary southern women who lead extraordinary lives.

In the second part of our interview with Kay Powell, we talk about the innate feelings about family that southerners share.

A friend from church brings a lifelong pal to visit our barn, and it turns out that Nez Calhoun has some stories to tell. She was one of the original staff writers at Southern Living magazine when it was launched in Birmingham in 1961.

A chat with a dear friend and a great writer, whose latest book is a sharp look at the South called We Are All Good People Here.

A bonus episode with notes for book clubs as they read Susan Rebecca White's "We Are All Good People Here."