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Due South

In new book about apples, Diane Flynt gets to the core of Southern history

By Jeff Tiberii,

Published November 21, 2023 at 10:20 AM EST

Co-host Jeff Tiberii sits down with Diane Flynt, author of the new book Wild, Tamed, Lost, Revived: The Surprising Story of Apples in the South, to discuss the complicated story of apple growth in the South, from its ties to the country's early settlers to the slow disappearance of hundreds of distinct apple crops on family orchards across the Southern states to the erasure of indigenous and enslaved farmers in the annals of apple farming history.

Due South

Jeff Tiberii

Jeff Tiberii is the co-host of WUNC's "Due South." Jeff joined WUNC in 2011. During his 20 years in public radio, he was Morning Edition Host at WFDD and WUNC’s Greensboro Bureau Chief and later, the Capitol Bureau Chief. Jeff has covered state and federal politics, produced the radio documentary “Right Turn,” launched a podcast, and was named North Carolina Radio Reporter of the Year four times.

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Stacia Brown

Stacia L. Brown is a writer and audio storyteller who has worked in public media since 2016, when she partnered with the Association of Independents in Radio and Baltimore's WEAA 88.9 to create The Rise of Charm City, a narrative podcast that centered community oral histories. She has worked for WAMU’s daily news radio program, 1A, as well as WUNC’s The State of Things. Stacia was a producer for WUNC's award-winning series, Great Grief with Nnenna Freelon and a co-creator of the station's first children's literacy podcast, The Story Stables. She served as a senior producer for two Ten Percent Happier podcasts, Childproof and More Than a Feeling. In early 2023, she was interim executive producer for WNYC’s The Takeaway.

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