Southern States

Two half-sisters, one black and one white, embark on a risky road trip through the Jim Crow South of the 1950s in this spellbinding story of identity and race....

Neal Burgess, a semi-retired, middle-aged computer analyst from California, had just cashed in from a start-up company he helped bring to life. He bought the sailboat of his dreams and was enjoying his new liveaboard lifestyle in a small marina...

Mandy Rose Bokum wanted to go home. Her mind and body were getting sicker. Three lonely years living in one room in California were enough. She yearned for peace. She craved love. She wanted answers. The townies blamed her. Accused her of murder....

Nothing much ever seems to change in the small Southern town of Delphi. The bag boys still take customers’ groceries out to their cars, the churches still frown on rock and roll, and every now and then...a dead body is dragged out of the Delphi River....

A woman dragged down by racism, but overcomes all. Winifred Dixon was born to a family who were slaves for the McAllister family in Savannah, Georgia. Her father was a butler for the family as well as working in the fields of the plantation. Mama was a sex slave for Mr. McAllister....

When the small North Carolina mountain town of Eli was flooded in the early 1940s to make way for a TVA dam and lake, the homes and businesses were buried beneath the water - but buildings weren’t the only things buried. There are hushed stories of a spirit that lingers beneath....

This profound portrait of family life takes listeners inside the hearts and minds of members of the Quick family, whose raw-edged emotions are stirred up by a visit home. An inexplicably violent death and painful confrontations leave every family member forever changed....