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.25.06.2020
“War Baby”
I tend toward the sentimental if I indulge too much in celebrating holidays. Memorial Day, July 4th, Mother’s…
20.06.2020
Searching for Another Peachie the Labrador Retriever
Life runs in cycles. Recently, we find ourselves scanning the animal rescue websites, partly because we miss our…
20.05.2020
Woodrow Stretcher on Rat Genes
Saturday morning. After sleeping late, I awakened to the weekend edition of the Today Show. Twenty-something year-old women,…
19.05.2020
A Belated Mothers’ Day Story: Blazing Salads in the Pirates Den
My mother, a woman as demure as a kitten, refuses to have dinner in a restaurant with me…
18.05.2020
Millicent: The Chicken Who Worked at Wal-Mart
You know how you can get in trouble telling stories? I’m in trouble with my granddaughters Sarah (6)…
14.05.2020
Truth on the Baseball Field
Let me say at the start that I believe in baseball. Sandlot baseball is a testament to democracy…
01.05.2020
Woodrow Stretcher: “Is Trump an Alien?”
Its been months since I ran into Woodrow Stretcher at the Home Despot. The garden supply section seems…