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REEL SOUTH
Stay Here Awhile
Season 8
Episode 802
A Tennessee folklorist, a fifth-generation Carolina farmer, a Mississippi river guide, and a former professional football player journey through loss and healing in this poetic ode to the power of landscape. A film shot during the COVID-19 Pandemic, ‘Stay Here Awhile’ invites us to linger in the space we find at the end of things.
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A historian revisits the oral history of a 1920s school teacher in the Mississippi Delta.

21:10
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14:26
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17:18
An ode to one man’s fight against strip mining the Appalachian mountains he loved dearly.

30:26
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24:04
Two Korean-American adoptees meet their birth mothers for the first time.

27:09
An Alabama inmate fights to keep a jailhouse romance alive while advocating for parole.

27:32
Youth suicide at a Louisiana juvenile detention center exposes a legacy of abuse.

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