Scott Slade's Georgia

"Looking ahead to Veterans Day — a tribute to Georgia Vietnam veterans and their mission to give back." It's thought that over 200-thousand Vietnam veterans are currently living in Georgia. As we approach Veterans Day next week, speaking with John Butler with the Atlanta Vietnam Veterans Business Association. He describes how their mission started over four decades ago as a way to communicate the...

Speaking with Georgia filmmakers Luke Pilgrim and Brad Kennedy about their latest project, "Unknown Georgia -- Macon to Augusta." Collecting stories from real people about their paranormal experiences ranging from UFO sightings to a haunted floor in an Augusta hotel popular with guests. Strange how there seem to be a quite of few of these stories popping up along the Georgia Fall Line. https://www...

"How a six-decade tradition of bluegrass music is being kept alive and well in North Gwinnett." Speaking with those who have been keeping Everett's Music Barn thriving since 1964 in Suwanee. Here's how Tommy Everett, Rena Everett MacDaniel and a long list of musicians and volunteers are keeping the popular Saturday night performances up and running for all these years. Their October Fall Festival...

Speaking with White County High School Principal Steve Horton about his school's ultra-successful student media Pathways program. A hundred students are involved year round In everything from live and recorded broadcast production to selling, writing and producing commercials for local businesses for the Friday Night live football game broadcasts on the school's YouTube channel, Warrior TV. This i...

"Here's the recipe for a stunning leaf season in the North GA Mountains." Speaking with Georgia Forestry Commission Ranger Casey Tudor about how the leaf season is shaping up. Peak weeks are usually the last week of October into the first week of November. Follow along at www. GAtrees.org and hit the "leaf watch" button. https://gatrees.org/forest-management-conservation/fall-leaf-watch/

"Here's the recipe for a stunning leaf season in the North GA Mountains." Speaking with Georgia Forestry Commission Ranger Casey Tudor about how the leaf season is shaping up. Peak weeks are usually the last week of October into the first week of November. Follow along at www. GAtrees.org and hit the "leaf watch" button. https://gatrees.org/forest-management-conservation/fall-leaf-watch/

"It's not just football and pumpkin spice — it's Joro Spider Season in Georgia!" Speaking with UGA Entomology Professor Jason Schmidt about the study he has coauthored on what makes these spiders tick. They have been with us for about a decade, imported from Japan, and lucky us — they thrive in north Georgia, the thinking being it's a climate similar do their native Japan. They tend to build their...

"Here's a rare opportunity to own a piece of Georgia history." A sizeable portion of historic Gay, Georgia, is now on the market. Speaking with Harrison Summerour, whose family owns and operates the small Town and the biannual Gay Cotton Fair, coming up the first weekend of October. Offered at $13.5 million, the town is about 50 miles south of Atlanta. The property contains about 64 acres,17 build...

How this year's Dekalb Peachtree Airport Good Neighbor Day event will make history this weekend. Speaking with PDK Airport Director Hunter Hines and airshow announce Matt Jolley about the Saturday September 19 event that features aerobatics, static displays, an interactive STEM exhibit, and for the first time ever at PDK: a nighttime airshow segment with drones and fireworks. Gates open 1:00 PM-8:...

"NOAA says the lower 48 United States has just experienced the hottest summer in 132 years of record keeping." The summer heat is making a difference in the North Georgia apple season this year. This week, Scott's speaking with Anna Woodward, the Agricultural and Natural Resources Extension Agent in Fannin and Gilmer Counties. While there will be plenty of apples for picking through October, the h...

Scott Slade interviews Donna Hyland

"The Georgia showman whose unusual talent made him nationally famous." The story of Jimmie Edmondson, Sr. This week, Scott's speaking with his son Jimmie, Jr., about how his dad woke up from a coma with an unusual ability to write, speak and listen in reverse. Born in 1910 in Atlanta's Fourth Ward, he became known as "Professor Backwards," appearing on most of the major variety shows of the time (...

"The Georgia ties to the new professional baseball league that's been a long time coming." This week, Scott's speaking to Janet Thomas McKeen from Acworth. She's part of the inaugural umpire crew for the new Women's Professional Baseball League now playing their first season. There are some slight differences from the men's game, but all in all, the rules are almost identical, including hard-ball,...

"Here's how a Gwinnett County campus is making a difference in Georgia's doctor shortage." This week, Scott takes you to the White Coat Ceremony for 135 aspiring doctors studying at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine in Suwanee. Speaking with Dean Dr. Andy Mann about how they will fill future primary care physician slots as well as other specialties. And for those who don't know, how...

"As he enters the home stretch, Georgia's top legal officer reflects on a decade in office." This week, Scott's speaking with Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr about some the benchmarks of ten years in office. We talk about an effective statewide prosecution tackling human trafficking, the challenge AI is presenting to law enforcement, and hopes the federal government will come through with auth...

"Meet the young newspaper owner determined to keep local journalism humming along in small-town Georgia." This week, Scott's speaking to 25-year-old Evan Newton, the editor, publisher and owner of The Monticello News. What he calls a full-circle moment from reading the paper as a first-grader to now owning it. We'll talk about his advantage over much larger media outlets and what goes into the mix...

The WSB Careathon gives us a chance to let you know about the breakthroughs that you have been inspiring in the fight against childhood cancer and blood disorders. This week, Scott's speaking with Dr. Doug Graham, the Director of the Aflac Cancer Center and Blood Disorders Service at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta. Dr. Graham has an update on some exciting horizons in treatment and even cures.

"An international whale rescue that will culminate in Atlanta." The Georgia Aquarium is set to become part of rehoming beluga whales from a Canadian marine park that has been shuttered since 2024. Hear what is involved in getting them here and why the Georgia Aquarium is one of the few facilities with the expertise to pull off a rescue like this.

"They are smart, reproduce like rabbits and leave a wake of damage everywhere they go. These porcine pests have long been a plague in Georgia." This week, Scott's speaking with Georgia Department of Natural Resources Deer and Feral Hog Biologist Charlie Killmaster about the estimated $150 million damage a year caused by feral hogs in Georgia. They show up in all 159 Georgia counites and now in mos...

"What was Georgia like 250 years ago this summer?" We were untamed, rural, with a brutal plantation economy. And as Berry College History Professor Christy Snider tells us, up to the mid 1770's, we largely stayed out of revolutionary politics. Here's what happened that got those early Georgians involved.

Updating the effort to crown Georgia's first national park. This week, Scott's speaking with Tracie Revis, CEO of the Ocmulgee National Park and Preserve Initiative, to get a progress report on elevating the Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park to a full-fledged national park. Along with the natural beauty and rich biodiversity of the area, Revis says human history there stretches back some se...

"Meet the people who continue to find a way to get vital nutrition to hundreds of metro Atlanta seniors -- many who depend on Meals on Wheels Atlanta as their only source of food." This week, Scott's speaking with Meals on Wheels Atlanta (MOWA) volunteers Valerie and Dwayne Williams, and MOWA Culinary Director Robert Gerstenecker. How they are managing to prepare and deliver meals to seniors despi...

This week, Scott's thoughts on Father's Day — and on being a dad.

The super-food harvest underway now in South Georgia. This week, Scott's speaking with blueberry farmer and state senate agriculture committee chairman Russ Goodman about Georgia's number one fruit crop. Why a swatch of South Georgia is ideal for propelling Georgia some years to best in the nation for growing this health-conscious crop.

What your news outlets could look like in the years to come. This week, Scott's talking to University of Georgia Journalism School Dean Charles Davis. It can be a toxic atmosphere for the news business these days; how that might affect future journalists? He’s pretty optimistic.