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.25.08.2021
Connections: The 54th USC Infantry, Saint Gaudens and the Second Bloodiest Battle of the Civil War fought in Florida
When historical lives and events intersect in unexpected ways, I find it exciting as I hope you do….
22.08.2021
Connections: Daniel Chester French, James Oglethorpe, and Tate, Georgia
Often on winter nights, I am awakened by the sound of the blasting at the marble quarry, which…
11.08.2021
Connections: Darien, Georgia, the Civil War and Sculptor Augustus St. Gaudens
Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907)) is known for his many extraordinary sculptural creations, many of them on display at his…
05.08.2021
New Echota and the Cherokee Removal Story
The old capital of the Cherokee Nation is part restoration, part reconstruction. It includes a small and beautifully…
31.07.2021
Appalachian Hiker and Autism
It took him more than six months to hike the long trail from Amicalola Falls in Georgia to…
30.07.2021
“Indian Territory”: A Few Common Misconceptions About the Southeastern Native Americans
Most of us have a tendency to “conflate” what we learn about specific periods of history so that…
24.07.2021
Georgia Road Trip: From Talking Rock and Tate to Thomasville and Cordele, Georgia
Entertaining my son, daughter and granddaughter during their summer visit from Thomasville, we found much to see at…