How Storytelling Endures In the South
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The creators explore Southern culture and how storytelling remains vital in the South.
Director Craig Renaud and the creators explore Southern culture and how storytelling remains vital in the South.
How Storytelling Endures In the South
Clip: Season 1 | 1m 30sVideo has Closed Captions
Director Craig Renaud and the creators explore Southern culture and how storytelling remains vital in the South.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship(light, shining music) - [Narrator] Story is the means through which people and places achieve immortality.
(upbeat guitar music) - The series captures all different genres of storytellers.
People like Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jericho Brown.
- Poems are always after your subconscious or your unconscious.
- [Craig Renaud] Mary Steenburgen.
- I loved being a trainman's daughter, I was proud of it.
- [Craig Renaud] And Billy Bob Thornton.
- The South is made for writers.
The ultimate beauty in writing is something that makes you expand as a soul or a person.
- Our culture is still being informed.
It's still ongoing.
We don't have a settled history.
William Faulkner said the Southerner feels a compulsion to explain.
- I think what surprised me the most is how much the South is changing, and how rapidly it was changing, even during the production of this.
A lot of the culture that's been there for a very long time is disappearing fast.
- Much of what we want to remember, much of what we need to know, gets erased.
- Story is a thing that we carry with us each and every day.
- The literary canon has kept us out.
Our stories deserve to be heard.
- Our culture is still open for interpretation and explanation, and exploration, and I think that's what makes storytelling so vital in the South.
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