An engineering prodigy arrives in the South, fascinated with an ancient relic and searching for the aerodynamic laws of angel wings, all the while nurturing his grove of Carolina dogwoods. It’s a good life.

This April and May mark the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe and the death of two notorious dictators--Mussolini and Hitler.

A grandfather’s hardscrabble, Southern life on a farm and in the mill is a legacy embraced by this North Carolina writer who remembers him with “gnarled leather skin like a pair of old work gloves.”

Life in eastern North Carolina's tobacco country had some lessons for a young teen from the city.

A North Carolina writer learns that Southern graces don't come easily or without tears. .

Gratitude is what keeps us humble as we realize at any age how much of a role luck plays in our lives.

A native of Ohio, William Hildebolt shares a family story from the earliest days of his ancestors who have lived on and worked the same land near the Indiana border and kept up the family homestead for 200 years.

a foretaste of glory divine yet to come -

Artist, writer, and athlete Bill Gramley of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, recounts his discoveries of Southern cooking and describes the delectables offered up from the table set by his mother-in-law on a 1950s North Carolina farm.

This bonus episode shares some history from 50 years ago in April 1970 with relevance to our challenges across the world today. Certainly the first Earth Day would be a good guess, but this story is about the other event, the one you might remember or know of as a movie fan if not as a history buff.

Coming from the Mountain West fifty years ago, a new bride discovered what “small town” really meant in South Carolina.

This episode is the first of Season 2 and begins the sharing of stories from “That Southern Thing—living, loving. laughing, loathing, leaving the South,” the third anthology of the Personal Story Publishing Project.