ELLIOTT: Did you try a Kool-Aid pickle ... Medley's book is "Thank You Please Come Again: How Gas Stations Feed And Fuel The American South." An exhibition of her photographs opens this spring ...

Her new book, Thank You Please Come Again, captures how these establishments serve as important community meeting points across class, ethnic and racial divides. In today's episode, Medley speaks ...

NPR's Debbie Elliott talks with photographer Kate Medley about her book, "Thank You Please Come Again," on eateries in Southern gas stations. She also speaks with Otha Campbell who helps run one.