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The Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi was established in 1977.\\xa0 Its mission was to investigate, document, interpret and teach about the American South. In this episode, Ann Abadie recalls the Center\\u2019s first public event. Abadie also discusses the Center\\u2019s most ambitious project: The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture.\\xa0 She explains how one section of that publication inspired them to form the Southern Foodways Alliance.

No study of Southern Culture would be complete without the Blues. Abadie remembers how Bill Ferris, the Center\\u2019s first director, brought Living Blues Magazine from Chicago to Oxford.