She Who Kept Us Alive

Before doctors had licenses and hospitals had beds, there was a woman with a black bag who came in the dark. She delivered the babies and prepared the dead and carried the knowledge of what keeps a community alive through generations when no one else would. Tonight we talk about the granny witch, the Cherokee Corn Mother Selu, and the women of Appalachian tradition who stood at every threshold birth and death and everything in between. This one is for them.