Life in Pittsboro NC, with Madeleine Austin & Matthew Young - The Sower Episode 82

Chris Anadale interviews Madeleine Austin and Matthew Young about the value of place and their home of Pittsboro, North Carolina.

Madeleine Austin lives in Pittsboro, North Carolina. She is a graduate of the Virginia Military Institute and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. When Madeleine is not playing her banjo, she works as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Army Reserves. She also received the Ciceronian Society's 2025 Batchelder Award for the Study of Place, for which she was interviewed on Episode 60 of The Sower.

Matthew Young lives on a small farm in Chatham County, North Carolina, with his wife Camille and their four children. He is an assistant professor of political theory at Elon University, where he teaches courses spanning the history of political thought and constitutional law. His writing focuses on the difficulties of toleration and civil discourse. His book manuscript draws on seventeenth century sources to show that toleration is dependent on hope. He holds degrees in political science from Berea College and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Christopher Anadale is podcast editor for the Ciceronian Society and Associate Professor of Philosophy at Mount St. Mary's University in Emmitsburg, Maryland. His runs a philosophy YouTube channel.

Mentioned in this Episode: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsboro,_North_Carolina

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