Visit Tom Rankin’s website to see his work and to learn more about his books. https://tom-rankin.format.com/#1

Purchase The Carolina Table: North Carolina Writers on Food (Eno Publishers): http://www.enopublishers.org/books/the-carolina-table-north-carolina-writers-on-food

Listen to Tom Rankin read his entire story, “Raising Goats to Their Rightful Place,” from The Carolina Table: North Carolina Writers on Food:

Podcast music for “Chasing Goats With Tom Rankin”: “Bluegrass Boogie,” by the Undertones. Available on Epidemic Sound. https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/LNTPwPkWYV/

Episode 2: Show Notes

Chasing Goats With Tom Rankin

Documentarian/farmer on the slow-cooked redemption of goats

Documentarian Tom Rankin balances the demands of academic life with caring for his herd of escape-artist goats. He discusses the challenges and the unexpected rewards of raising the often-maligned animals. He reads excerpts from his story “Raising Goats to Their Rightful Place” (featured in Eno Publishers’s The Carolina Table: North Carolina Writers on Food).

Bio—

Tom Rankin is a goat farmer as well as a noted photographer and documentarian. He was director of Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies for fifteen years and now directs Duke’s MFA program in Documentary Studies and Experimental Arts. His photographs have been widely exhibited. His books include Sacred Space: Photographs from the Mississippi Delta and Local Heroes Changing America: Indivisible.