Charles Kuralt in the Southern Quote

He was born in Wilmington, North Carolina in 1934. You might remember him best as the wistful host of “On the Road” with Charles Kuralt. His look at the lives of his fellow countrymen became a favorite segment of CBS news. From the driver’s seat of a motor home, he spent twenty years introducing America to America, bringing us everyone from a 104-year-old jogger to the owner of the world’s largest ball of string.

Disturbing revelations surfaced at the reporter’s death in 1997. For nearly 30 years, while living with his wife in Manhattan, Charles Kuralt had been maintaining a second home with another woman and her children. The controversy threatened to obscure everything he had accomplished, but I’m not here to try and sort out Mr. Kuralt’s personal life. Instead, I dug up one of his quotes because it speaks to my own experiences here at All Things Southern.

Watching the news can make you feel like the whole world is going to hell in a hand basket, to quote an old expression, but it’s not. It’s easy to think that morals and manners aren’t taught anywhere anymore and faith is totally out of fashion, but my first-hand experience says that’s not the case. In my work here at All Things Southern, I find myself blessed to speak to pockets of good people everywhere who are trying to do the right thing. Getting up, going to work, loving on their families, going to church, folks who just keep on keeping on.

In today’s Southern Quote, I’d like to dedicate the words of Charles Kuralt to these fine folks I’ve met in my travels. You know who you are. The late Mr. Charles Kuralt once said… “It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn’t in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals…The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.” — Charles Kuralt

~Shellie