Oh, being Southern. What does being Southern mean to me? I think it means being great storytellers.

We're all storytellers. Even the bad ones are pretty good ones. My mama is this incredible writer in her stories.

Make the South, you can taste it. You know what I mean? And I guess I inherited some of that.

But the storytelling.

You know, we have the best writers.

Everybody knows it.

Welcome to Biscuits and Jam from Southern Living.

I'm Sid Evans, editor-in-chief of Southern Living magazine.

My guests this week have emerged as the faces of small-town revitalization in the South in recent years,

but you won't hear them taking credit for it. For this incredible duo, they're just cheerleaders for the power of a southern community.

People come and they see the houses that we've done on the show, and they think that that's it.

But what they don't see are the people who, you know, organize the lighting project in downtown Marl. They see us, you know, plastered on everything. They think, gosh, look at what all Aaron and Ben have done in this town.

We just get to be the mascots of it.

Yeah.

So that's the thing that we always try to convey to people when they say, oh, gosh, I wish we had an

hearing of Ben.

You're probably the Aaron and Ben if you care about it.

Or you might be the Josh or the Jim or the

Randy or the Valerie. Yeah, everybody's valuable. So valuable. Aaron and Ben Napier are the

husband and wife renovation team from the hit HGTV series Hometown, which premiered in 2016.

By shining a spotlight on their small town of Laurel, Mississippi,

Aaron and Ben have introduced millions of fans to the charms, quirks, and history of their community.

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