May 19, 2025
The Forgotten Stories of Southern Journalism
I drove three hours to talk with my grandmother about her years as an award-winning journalist. Her story began when she felt compelled to tell someone else’s—a man who had just written his first big country hit. It was the late 1980s when she cold-called the Mobile Press-Register, Alabama’s oldest newspaper, and pitched a feature.
By Emilee Ruth Calametti
