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It's the bitteritter Southerner Podcast from Georgia Public Broadcasting in the magazine that I edit The Bitter

Southerner. I'm Chuck Reese and this is episode five of our first season today the Southern way of healing

Now we all bear the traumas of life, unexpected illness or injury, sudden loss of work or loved ones,

and blessings be upon all those who suffer from that.

But there are larger traumas, ones that are imposed by societal and governmental

forces that are beyond most of our control, but they wound huge groups of people.

I'm speaking specifically of the traumas of war, southerners bring some long traditions with them of caring for the damaged.

Because we tend as a people to share what we have quite readily

when we encounter people bearing great pain.

It's an impulse that's rooted in traditions and stories that cross

all our cultural barriers.

And one of the best expressions of that impulse that I ever heard came from a field

recording that the folklorist Bill Ferris made about a half century ago. A story

told to him by a quilter in Yazoo City, Mississippi whose name was

Picoleo Warner.

Pacolea told Bill about a time a Bible salesman showed up at her door. Now Ms. Warner didn't need another Bible because

she already had one in every room of her house, but she could tell that the man

was hungry and tired, so she took him in and fed him.

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