Bill, Annie, and Annette step back and look at how hospitality and community service make a part of their inheritance.

Music

Country meet cute by free feral

Albert and Wilmer by free feral

Come on Down by free feral

Jam with Cam 2 by Cameron Jones and free feral

Jam with Cam by Cameron Jones and free feral

You Can’t Help Who You Love by free feral

Walk in the Parlor by Lucius Smith & Sid Hemphill Courtesy of the Association for Cultural Equity

Clarksdale by Memphissippi Sounds

Jam with Cam 3 by Cameron Jones and free feral

Proper with God by free feral

For sound design sources as well as poems, photographs, and more visit our multimedia altar at www.wearethepromisedland.net

Today’s episode features Bill, Annie, Annette, Al, Mattie, Vivian and Shenitha Hollowell, and Annie’s sister Connie.

Sound design by muthi reed with assistance from Cedric Wilson who also mixed the episode. Our Virtual Altar was brought to life by Alleyha Dannett of Ancient Future Fourest with photography by Jasmine B Johnson and Jai Williams. Our house historian is Rhondalyn Peairs.

We Are the Promised Land is produced by free feral, in collaboration with Annette Hollowell. Special thanks to the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi, The Yoknapatawpha Arts Council and the Mississippi Presenters’ Network, and to the Association for Cultural Equity.

We Are the Promised Land is made possible by generous support from the National Performance Network, the Mississippi Center for Cultural Production, Carpetbag Theater, The New Orleans Center for the Gulf South at Tulane, The Panta Rhea Foundation, The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation, Alternate Roots, The Big We Foundation, The Mississippi Humanities Council under a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and with financial assistance from the National Park Service and the Mississippi Hills Heritage Area Alliance.