Episode Notes

Today Atlanta is well known as a center of producing popular content of all kinds: music, theatre, comedy, movies... but the roots of that success go further back than you might think! This week's guest, Dr. Steve Goodson, author of _Highbrows, Hillbillies, and Hellfire: Public Entertainment in Atlanta, 1880-1930 _tells us that since the late 19th-century popular culture has been a major influence on the growth of the city.