Southern Agrarians

Flannery O'Connor, as, uh, most of you probably know, is a Southern writer.

Um, she's very often assimilated to a whole group of Southern writers who were working in the 1930s and '40s, the Southern Agrarians.

Um, she was friends with a lot of the major figures of that movement, especially Allen Tate, and, um, Carolyn, uh, Gordon.

She, uh, lived out her life mostly in a small town called Milledgeville, Georgia.

Um, it's a YouTube channel and a social media network, and he muses there about various topics on his faith, politics, uh, books, and of course, pipes.

Um, and he's also the founder of The New Bradford Institute, which seeks to, uh, advance the study and understanding of Southern conservatism and Southern agrarian thought, and to celebrate how the South, uh, has had an enduring impact on American culture at large.

And so with that, uh, welcome to the Coram Deo podcast, Dr. Harrelson.

Oh, Zach, it's such a privilege to be here with you.

We talked about the works of Wendell Berry and his legacy.

Um, and so but today I, I'm having you on, uh, to talk about, um, uh, kind of a wide discussion a little bit.

We're gonna talk about it in a couple sections, but we're gonna be talking about, as I just mentioned, the, your New Bradford Institute and how you're seeking to, um, preserve and to, to deepen the study and advance the study of, of Southern agrarianism and, uh, Southern culture and the impact it's had on, um, American culture at large.

But before we get to that discussion, um, you know, as I think about particularly being a man of the South myself and, um, the impact of Southern culture, one can't help but think, uh, one of the, the, the goodnesses of Southern culture that it has produced is its music, and all the way early days of, of country music with, um, before country music was even a thing, uh, before it was even an organiz- organized, um, brand or, or, um, business.