Author: Joseph Kitchens
Southern writer/historian focuses on Deep South and Georgia topics, especially of Native American Cherokees and Creeks, plantation life and cotton. Academically trained with a sense of humor and curiosity about how history impacts families and their everyday lives, even in the smallest places.29.07.2024
J.D. Vance is Now the Republican Nominee for Vice President-It All Started With His Book Hillbilly Elegy
Reposting my review of Vance’s popular book, “Melting Pot of Grievances; Finding Context for Hillbilly Elegy” We are…
13.06.2024
Why Ancestry is Only Part of Your Story
Like most people with even a vague sense that they have ancestors that must somehow have influenced their…
06.03.2024
Culture Shock – From a Yankee Plantation to a Night at the Opera
Located in the heart of “Quail Country,” Pebble Hill Plantation is a 2,000- acre hunting preserve, one of…
10.02.2024
The Idiot’s Guide to Leaf Disposal
We live in a garden, one with lots of hardwood trees. Those twelve- foot trees growing in our…
28.11.2023
The Reluctant Gardener
After years of resisting gardening because I know little about it, I have finally given in. There is…