John Shelton Reed – Vice-Chancellor of the Fellowship of Southern Writers – taught for 31 years at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and helped found the Center for the Study of the American South and the quarterly Southern Cultures. He is the author or editor of 18 books, including Whistling Dixie: Dispatches from the South and, most recently, Holy Smoke: The Big Book of North Carolina Barbecue (with his wife, Dale Volberg Reed).

Speaking Schedule

Thursday, April 2
Livingood Address
Presented by the Chattanooga History Center
5:30 p.m.

Saturday, April 4
Closing Remarks
3:45 p.m.

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James L. "Bucky" & Diane Wolford - Erlanger Health System - Hacker & Kitty Caldwell - Wild Hare Books - Senator Bob Corker

Baylor School - Chattanooga Funeral Home - Chattanooga State Technical Community College - Chattanooga Coca Cola - Girls Preparatory School - Greyfriars Coffee & Tea - Henry and Colleen Luken - Memorial Health Care System - McCallie School - Southern Adventist University - The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and the UTC Department of English - BB&T - Cornerstone Community Bank - Patten & Patten, Inc.

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