Episode 26: Welcome to Paradise
May 20, 2021He had always wanted to come here, to this diamond in the rough wedged in-between kissin’ cousins of a state line: Paradise — a city split down the middle between the Commonwealth of Virginia and the State of Tennessee — was a bustling town in the early winter of 1928.
CW: Discussion of historical slavery and military desertion, human trafficking, assault and robbery.
Written by Cam Collins and Steve Shell
Narrated by Steve Shell
Sound design by Steve Shell
Produced by Cam Collins and Steve Shell
Intro Music: “The Land Unknown (The Hollow Heart Verses)” written and performed by Landon Blood
Outro Music: “God’s Dark Heaven” by Those Poor Bastards
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