Granny was a healer.

At the end of a difficult 2020 when we are facing more of the same for a good while yet, this story from the beginning of “6-minute Stories” 18 months ago, offers courage and hope in a story from Appalachia.

After moving south recently from Upstate New York, writer and antiques dealer, Paloma Capanna, shares her experience of being welcomed to the community of Beaufort, North Carolina, and her continuing appreciation of the state’s artisans and their craftsmanship.

A serendipitous find at a used book sale offered North Carolina writer Randell Jones the chance to imagine for the holidays how some family's treasure came to be..

In the spirit of the classic 1983 movie, “A Christmas Story” with Ralphie dreaming getting a Red Ryder BB gun for Christmas, Dr. Bohdan Dziadyk offers this story of his building a "firecracker gun" as a boy while developing a love of the forest, thus preparing his lifelong love of environmental science.

What we don't know about tears

North Carolina writer Landis Wade confronts his disappointments imposed by the pandemic on the traditional gathering of his family for the holidays

South Carolina writer and genealogist Paula Teem Levi shares a story of her great-grandmother, “fetched” to help the mothers-to-be in the Poe Run holler in West Virginia.

In this bonus episode, North Carolina writer and portrait artist Arlene Mandell remembers two fathers of her career—admiration and inspiration, of course, but also her father and Grandpa Moe.

Forty years after arriving South from Massachusetts, a North Carolina writer and photographer reflects on losing his innocence of assumptions and being awakened to an awareness of race realities in a changing South.

In keeping with the theme of “That Southern Thing,” podcast host Randell Jones shares in this bonus episode the story of how the first day of thanksgiving by English-speaking settlers happened in Virginia two years before the Pilgrims had their celebrated day. Wishing you and yours a safe and happy Thanksgiving.

At Thanksgiving and in gratitude and love for the life of her late sister who charmed the world as “Clancey, the Clown,” North Carolina writer and poet Karen Luke Jackson shares selected excerpts from her tribute chapbook, “Grit” in this bonus episode. Karen’s writing for “that Southern Thing” appeared previously this season on July 22.