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An independent podcast-and-newsletter project from historian Dr. Bob Beatty featuring oral-history conversations and deep dives on Southern music, the Allman Brothers Band, and events like Woodstock. Readers get episode overviews, firsthand accounts, and musician quotes with historical context.

Personal essays, local history, recipes and memoir pieces from the South Carolina Lowcountry, written by a Southern lifestyle author. Paid subscribers also get early draft chapters of the author's forthcoming book set in 1970s Beaufort County.