Mountain Talk Monday Every Tuesday!

In this episode we’ll hear from two southern women using words to craft healing and comfort in the rural communities from which they come. First we’ll hear from Salaam Green, a writer and activist working with the Black Belt Citizens in Uniontown, AL to fight environmental, economic and racial injustice, and we’ll here about how Green uses writing to heal community members along the way. Then, we’ll hear from Ronni Lundy, an Appalachian writer and cook from Corbin, KY who talks about her book Vittles, and the people, landscape, foods, and stories that led her to create this homage to Appalachian food. While Green and Lundy work in communities that might look very different from the outside, and use writing towards different ends, their commitments to the rural landscapes, foodways, traditions, and health of their communities shows us just how much we have in common as rural people, across this country, and across this world.