Director's Cut Podcast No. 7: The Real UT

11/22/24 • 6 min

The Director's Cut podcast shares stories that did not make the final cut for the live version of the StoryTown Radio Show. They're still great stories, though, and deserve to be shared. This story was submitted by Doug Gross for the "Workaday World" episode in September of 2024. Doug shares what it was like moving to Northeast Tennessee and learning all about the UT Vols and the local football culture. The story is read by Doug Gross, Denise Gross, and Matthew Gulley.

Previous Episode

Voices from the Archive: Lucinda Grandy

Voices from the Archive is a monthly segment of StoryTown Radio. It shares stories from people living here, just how they told them. You might think of it like a news report that tells you about all sorts of things. From ghost stories to apple butter, you could learn just about anything from the people living here in East Tennessee. Listen in as they tell the stories of their lives here in Appalachia.

StoryTown Radio is a production of the McKinney Center's Story Initiative. Grounded in the belief that stories connect people to each other, the Story Initiative sets out to collect, archive, and share the stories from the region. Broadcast from Jonesborough, Tennessee, the Storytelling Capital of the World, StoryTown Radio is one way these stories are shared with people, nearby and all around.

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Storytellers: Lucinda Grandy

Story Collector: Jil Smith, Jules Corriere, Diane Roanhorse

Producer & Narrator: Nori Shaw

Editors: Nori Shaw, Anne G'Fellers-Mason

Music:
Music by audionautix.com
Titles: Rocky Top (trad.)

Sponsors:
Tennessee Arts Commission (https://tnartscommission.org/)
Trivia with Budds
The Silver Raven
Mountain Empire Cremation and Burial Service
The Wild Women of Jonesborough

McKinney Center (mckinneycenter.com)