Chuck Reece and Rob Rushin-Knopf

Salvation South survives thanks to your support. Join our Family Circle today.

COME IN AND STAY AWHILE

Chuck Reece and Rob Rushin-Knopf

A Back Porch Chat

The editor’s old friend Rob Rushin-Knopf has a back porch chat with us. It’ll be the first of many, we hope.

By Chuck Reece and Rob Rushin-Knopf /

Most Popular

You might never have heard of the poet Annie Woodford. She’s singing the truths of mountain folks in a gorgeous voice that never flinches. It’s time you listen up.

After a lifetime of fishing in—and studying—the rivers of our Blue Ridge Mountains, an ecologist now understands, and grieves, how climate change has altered them forever.

The South lost one of its greatest artists this week, and Salvation South brings you two remembrances of the truth-telling singer from Butcher Holler, Kentucky.

When the bulldozers topple the trees and the owls and the field mice and the feral cats are gone, who will remember?

Clair Mclafferty is an expert on Southern cocktails, so we’ve asked her to give us a series of recipes: classic Southern drinks that you and your guests will doubtless enjoy.

Featured

Two lifelong friends—one a poet, one a painter–talk about it all: labor, joy, and love; the value of slowness; the subtleties of structure; and how to “make it soft, make it low.”

Salvation South survives thanks to your support. Join our Family Circle today.

Chuck Reece and Rob Rushin-Knopf

A Back Porch Chat

By Chuck Reece and Rob Rushin-Knopf /

Legal

Subscribe

Social

Subscribe