From moonshine to Mollie Barr, we read the mycelial pathways of marronage in Hill Country clay. Then the kids talk business, imagine the past and future of the Ranch.

Music

Black Mattie performed by Napoleon Strickland courtesy of the Association for Cultural Equity

Othar Turner & Rising Star Fife and Drum Band : 2 of 9 , 1978 courtesy of the Association for Cultural Equity

maroon, distillery, minor changes, heavy hitter, change is a foot, boony tune, machinations, and deep down by free feral

Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen trad. arranged by free feral

For sound design sources as well as poems, photographs, and more visit our multimedia altar at www.wearethepromisedland.net

This episode features Annie Hollowell, Bessie Pegues, Mattie Moore, Corine Taylor, Rhondalyn Peairs, Rachel McGee, John Leslie, Annette Hollowell, and Selah and Ida Hollowell Simons-Jones. Interviews by Rhondalyn Peairs and free feral. Special thanks to Cory Diane for the Tape sync.

Sound design by Cedric Wilson who also mixed the episode. Our Virtual Altar was brought to life by Alleyha Dannett of Ancient Future Fourest with photography by Jasmine B. Johnson and Jai Williams. Our house historian is Rhondalyn Peairs.

We Are the Promised Land is produced by free feral, in collaboration with Annette Hollowell. Special thanks to the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi, The Yoknapatawpha Arts Council and the Mississippi Presenters’ Network, and to the Association for Cultural Equity.

We Are the Promised Land is made possible by generous support from the National Performance Network, the Mississippi Center for Cultural Production, Carpetbag Theater, The New Orleans Center for the Gulf South at Tulane, The Panta Rhea Foundation, The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation, Alternate Roots, The Big We Foundation, The Mississippi Humanities Council under a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and with financial assistance from the National Park Service and the Mississippi Hills Heritage Area Alliance.