Sometimes, folks interview me:
Classic City Vibes with James Mitchell, Fall 2021
Southern Discomfort with Josina Guess Part 1 and Part 2 We Don’t Talk About That with Lucas Land, Spring 2021
Midwifing Stories in The American South, Unlikely Conversations a Podcast of The Collegeville Institute, hosted by Ellie Roscher, Fall 2020
On Becoming a Writer for The Lead Podcast of The Grady School of Journalism, University of Georgia, hosted by Caroline Odum, Fall 2020.
Englewood Review of Books podcast with Cara Meredith, author of The Color of Life hosted Jen Pollock Michel Summer 2020.
Can The South Be Redeemed? Bitter Southerner Podcast 2020.
Sometimes, I do the interviewing:
“Refugees in Georgia Oral History Project” for the Richard B. Russell Special Collections Library. This is an ongoing project documenting the recent history (1979-present) of refugee resettlement in Georgia.
Robbie Buller, a longtime member of Jubilee Partners also discusses visiting men on Georgia death row.
Jennifer Drago, former Jubilee Partners staff, and founder of the New Neighbor’s Network in Comer, GA
Nasrin Rouhani, (part 1) from Iran
Don Mosley, founder of Jubilee Partners
Carolyn Mosley, founder of Jubilee Partners
A conversation with Catherine Burns, for The Bitter Southerner creative director of The Moth, May 6, 2021.
Louise “Coffee” Worth, Comer, GA, April 2019
These recordings are of Louise “Coffee” Worth, who was born October 28, 1919 in South Boston, Virginia near the North Carolina line. She passed away in Lakeland, Florida on March 25, 2020.
Coffee’s father was a Presbyterian minister and she begins with a childhood memory of when she and her brother opened jars of fireflies in the church sanctuary while her father led a prayer meeting downstairs. Coffee was among the first women to attend Davidson College when it was a mostly men’s school. At Davidson she picked up the nickname “Coffee” because her maiden name had been Maxwell. (Maxwell House Coffee was the most popular kind of coffee at the time) Her second year she transferred to the Women’s College in Greensboro, North Carolina where she studied early childhood education. She worked as a teacher and lived for 20 years as a Presbyterian missionary in South Korea, twenty years at Koinonia Farm in Americus, Georgia and twenty years at Jubilee Partners in Comer, Georgia.
These recordings were made in the spring of 2019 at Coffee’s home at Jubilee Partners in Comer, GA. She moved to Florida in May of that year. She was 99 years old at the time of these recordings and she had some difficulty understanding some of my questions. These recordings are unedited and show my growth as an interviewer and her patience with me and my questions.
The most vivid recollections she shares are from childhood, early adulthood and Korea. Stories and details about her last 40 years at Koinonia Farm and then Jubilee Partners often overlapped.
She and her family have given me permission to share these stories with you.
There are a total of five recordings that I did over four sessions.
A Conversation with Jemar Tisby, author of the Color of Compromise. Oxford, MS, August 2019
Greta Brown Bully and Ineva Mae Pittman, Bully’s Soul Food, Jackson, Mississippi, August 2018
The next three recordings were made in Jackson, Mississippi in August 2018 right after I visited the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum and the Museum of Mississippi history. I had a conversation with Greta Brown Bully, a co-owner of Bully’s Soul Food who also hosts a local radio show. She then introduced me to a regular customer, Mrs. Ineva Mae Pittman, a Civil Rights veteran who agreed to answer some questions that were nagging at me after my museum tour.