

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Sidney's Salon w/ Caroline Rose Peyton, author of "Radioactive Dixie"
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 19 Feb, 2026 at 06:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Join us for a presentation from Dr. Caroline Rose Peyton, author of "Radioactive Dixie: A Nuclear History of the American South." We will begin with a reception and light refreshments at 5:30, and the presentation will begin at 6:00.

How and why did the South’s history, culture, and politics shape the region’s nuclear and energy industries? And how is that history linked to broader developments in the nuclear and energy industries—nationally and globally? Radioactive Dixie answers those questions as it traces the origins of the U.S. South’s love affair with the atom.

The South contains more nuclear reactors than any other region in the United States and much of the nation’s radioactive waste. This book shows how the South’s atomic footprint resulted from a decades-long effort by Southern politicians, industry figures, universities, and government officials to transform the American South into a nuclear-oriented region. Waving the atomic talisman, the nuclear industry served as one pivotal part in a larger project of regional modernization—a process that began in the nineteenth century and lasted more than a century.

From this perspective, bomb plants and nuclear reactors promised to expand the South’s economy and to cast its identity as a center of modern industry, science, and engineering and as a producer of cheap, limitless energy. Radioactive Dixie is the first book to chronicle this regional story that had national implications. Southern history informed national siting decisions, regulatory oversight, and attitudes toward the various nuclear projects that proliferated in the post–World War II period.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/macon/sidneys-salon-w-caroline-rose-peyton-author-of-radioactive-dixie/200029689890322
- **Event Categories**: Art, literary-art
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## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://bit.ly/49QllXo?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=macon-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Macon
- **state**: GA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 950 Third St., Macon, GA, United States, Georgia 31201
- **lat**: 32.82885
- **long**: -83.63267
- **full address**: 950 Third St., Macon, GA, United States, Georgia 31201

## Event Organizer details

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- **organizer**: Historic Macon Foundation (https://allevents.in/org/historic-macon-foundation/1974379)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Thu, 19 Feb, 2026 at 06:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 950 Third St., Macon, GA, United States, Georgia 31201
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Historic Macon Foundation
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** Art, literary-art
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Sidney's Salon w/ Caroline Rose Peyton, author of "Radioactive Dixie" ?
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