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Welcome to the website
of Susan Ketchin. From the time she was a young girl growing up
in Georgia, she began to develop a keen interest in her Southern
heritage and the rich and complex culture in which she was
raised.
Now, as a
talented and dedicated educator with 25 years of teaching
experience, she is a nationally recognized author, musician,
lecturer, and performer.
We invite you to
explore this website for fascinating information and resources
on contemporary Southern American culture -- its controversial
and fevered history, its passionate “Bible-belt" religions, its
rich and eclectic music, and its universally powerful
literature.
Why is the
South so rich and contradictory? So endlessly fascinating and
infuriating? Ketchin asks her authors, past and present, these
and other questions that she has found to be crucial to their
lives as artists and to ours as readers. "It's because we lost
the War," Walker Percy famously summed up. We invite you to
explore with Ketchin the fascinating culture of the American
South, to probe with us why this region has been so influential
in shaping this nation’s culture—its music, religion, language,
and literature.
We hope you will want to
learn more about Ms. Ketchin or to
invite
her to speak or perform for your group. |
