This week, Scott's speaking with Tena Clark, owner of Dunaway Gardens in Coweta County. Founded in 1916 by Hettie Jane Dunaway, the gardens became known across the nation and even overseas as a center for the arts, training high school and college kids in theater, music and dance. Hettie Jane constructed a thousand-seat amphitheater (which still stands), a restaurant, cottages and more that attracted the likes of Walt Disney, Tallulah Bankhead, Esther Williams, and many other stars including Minnie Pearl. Tena Clark is determined to continue Hettie Jane's legacy, restoring and expanding Dunaway Gardens to become a storied retreat and events center rooted in the arts and nature. You could call it the "Sundance" of the south. www.dunawaygardens.com

After hearing that Emory University had been awarded an Alzheimer's Foundation grant to explore

the effect of music on patients, you have to wonder how even more beneficial playing a musical

Instrument could be.

Speaking with Maura Nicholson, the executive director of the Frank Hamilton School in Decatur.

Founded by folk music pioneer Frank Hamilton ten years ago, the school is dedicated to making

playing a music instrument available to anyone willing to work to learn. Frank is 91 now. He still

lives in Decatur. And he still shows up to teach and play. He is the last living copyright holder to

the classic "We Shall Overcome." Folk music sounds a common thread through American history,

and through the lessons at the school and the periodic jam sessions, they are keeping it alive while bringing together musicians of all talent levels. www.frankhamiltonschool.org

This week, Scott's speaking with dentists Dr. Slade Lail in Duluth and Dr. Jay Phillips in Tifton on how Georgia's new tele-dentistry law will work when it goes into effect this month. Not only will it allow a new level of triage for patients in metro Atlanta, but it can also make a huge difference in level of care for patients in rural Georgia and patients with mobility issues.

This week, Scott's speaking with Mike Mies, the executive director of St Vincent de Paul of Georgia. How volunteers make sure donations to Clark Howard's Christmas Kids campaign make it to thousands of Georgia foster children in time for Christmas. Hear how they make it a year-round mission to ease homelessness, hunger and healthcare deficits (with Georgia's only statewide charitable pharmacy.) And now, a $5 million grant from the Bezos Day 1 Family Fund can benefit tens of thousands of homeless Georgia families with everything from emergency shelter to training that can help stabilize a family's income and keep a roof over their heads. St Vincent de Paul touched over 300-thousand Georgians in need in the past year. https://svdpgeorgia.org/

This week, Scott's speaking with Hall County School District Superintendent Will Schofield about the Agriculture Business Program there. Students in the work-based learning program not only get hands on training in everything from meat cutting to ag IT, but they also get high school credits and get paid for their work. They even supply protein to the Hall County school lunch program. The fifty-one-acre campus between Gainesville and Clermont was ninety percent funded by COVID relief and other federal funds along with corporate and private donors. And their farm store in open to the public two days a week to buy meat and pork products and even the honey that's produced there by students. https://agribusiness.hallco.org/

This week, Scott's speaking with long-time Atlanta Journal-Constitution delivery carrier David Neely about the AJC phasing out its print edition after December 31st. After thirty-six years delivering the paper in East Cobb, he figures he's thrown more than two million

papers onto yards and driveways, some as heavy as seven pounds. He says he'll miss the printed paper, but he realizes it makes economic as well as technological sense to make the transition. And at 72, after working seven nights a week, he's looking forward to a break!

Scott Slade remembers some Thanksgivings from his youth and looks at how much and how little has changed for his favorite holiday.

This week, Scott's speaking with Kyle Bryner, this year's winner of Food Network's Barbecue Brawl. Every day, his Blue Hound Barbecue in Dillard, Georgia, serves up the same cuisine that wowed judges like Bobby Flay. Kyle is on a mission to infuse Appalachia flavors into everything he serves. While we have him: the one thing backyard BBQ chefs can do to vastly improve their 'Cue. Be sure and try the beef cheeks and BBQ egg rolls while you're there. www.bluehoundbarbecue.com

This week, Scott's speaking with director Amanda Watkins about the 36th year the Alliance Theater will produce an adaptation of "A Christmas Carol." The forty-one-performance run beginning November 15 is shaping up to be more popular than ever with its mix of music, drama, special effects and a timeless message of redemption from the Dickens classic. Plus, actor Andrew Benator waxes on what It takes to be good Scrooge. www.alliancetheatre.org

As we head to Veterans Day, Scott speaks with Gerry Lewis, who was among the veterans who laid out the vision for the John's Creek Veterans Memorial at Newtown Park. The Memorial Walk there pays tribute to those who served in conflicts ranging from World War I through Afghanistan. And the park is now the permanent home for the Traveling Vietnam Memorial Wall inscribed with the names of over fifty-eight thousand Americans who died in the conflict. Through the work of the Johns Creek Veterans Association and a myriad of private and corporate supporters, the John's Creek Veterans Memorial at Newtown Park stands out as a unique and worthy tribute to all who have served. The "Honoring Our Veterans" celebration there begins at 9:00 AM Saturday, November 8.