- Collection:
- Southwind recordings
- Title:
- Southwind No. 75
- Creator:
- Lewis, Boyd, 1944-
- Date of Original:
- 1983-08-14
- Subject:
- Drug control--Georgia
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
United States, Georgia, Rabun County, 34.88168, -83.40214
United States, North Carolina, Buncombe County, Asheville, 35.60095, -82.55402 - Medium:
- radio programs
- Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- This recording opens with an introduction of the program by Boyd Lewis. The first segment, which begins at 1:47, is a feature about the aerial spraying of the herbicide Paraquot to combat the growth of Marijuana. The program features audio excerpts from Georgia Congressman Elliot Levitas and Ed Jenkins; Georgia Representative Henry Reeves; Pete Charette of the Drug Enforcement Agency; Marietta Police Chief Buck Craft, and Dick Hand, Public Safety Commissioner of DeKalb County. The second segment, which begins at 13:51, is a feature about how the mountain area of Asheville, North Carolina is becoming less of a quiet retreat and more of a busy, year round destination for people building vacation homes. The segment also features the area of Rabun County which is seeing the same developments. The program features audio excerpts from Marshall Doggett of Waco, Texas; John Abernathy of Montreat, North Carolina; Foxfire director Elliott Richardson of Nagoochee School in Rabun Gap. The program ends with a sign off by Boyd Lewis.
"Southwind" was a radio program about the issues, people, and culture of the South that aired on WABE-FM, Atlanta's public radio station. The series, which aired from 1980 to 1987, was conceived, produced, and reported by journalist Boyd Lewis. - Local Identifier:
- MSS 1118.075.001
ahc.1118.075.001 - Metadata URL:
- http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/cdm/ref/collection/p17222coll4/id/101
- Additional Rights Information:
- Copyright is held by Boyd Lewis. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons, Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivsCC BY-NC-ND license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Extent:
- 7 in. reel-to-reel audio tape, 3 3/4 ips
28:59 minutes - Original Collection:
- Southwind recordings
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
-
