Longleaf Journal

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.

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14.04.2020

The Exceptional Now: A Season of Fear

Joseph Kitchens / Deep South Stories, Uncategorized, Writer's Journal

Every generation rewrites the past. In easy times history is more or less of an ornamental art, but…

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06.04.2020

Baby Ruth at 49: Dreams to Ward Off Fear

Joseph Kitchens / Writer's Journal

I first encountered Baby Ruth as I was driving home from work–a beautiful stretch of Georgia Highway 108…

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30.03.2020

Satisfying Recognition for This Writer

Joseph Kitchens / Deep South Stories, Uncategorized, Writer's Journal

In yesterdy’s mail arrived a letter from Kevin Grogan, Director of the Morris Museum of Art. He and…

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28.03.2020

Thomas Wesley Loyless, Fighting Editor, Friend of FDR

Joseph Kitchens / Deep South Stories, Uncategorized, Writer's Journal

For reasons I can only imagine, visitation to my website has grown exponentially-and I enjoy knowing that some…

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21.03.2020

Remembering A Friend’s Battle with Polio

Joseph Kitchens / Deep South Stories, Writer's Journal

The current crisis over the Corona virus reminded me that I had my own tragic experience with an…

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15.03.2020

Augusta Mail Boy Flees Spanish Flu Epidemic

Joseph Kitchens / Deep South Stories, Writer's Journal

The current health crisis caused by the Corona Virus reminds us that viruses have posed an enormous challenge…

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11.03.2020

Antietam, Bloodiest Day of the Civil War

Joseph Kitchens / Deep South Stories, Poetry, Uncategorized

The following poem by Joseph Hugh Kitchens III was inspired by a news that the National Museum of…

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11.03.2020

Longleaf, A Poem Resurrected

Joseph Kitchens / Deep South Stories, Uncategorized

…shotguns and dogs, covey rises and missed shots…>

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10.03.2020

Land of the Longleaf Pines

Joseph Kitchens / Deep South Stories, Uncategorized, Writer's Journal

We just returned from a long weekend in Thomasville in southwest Georgia. Driving back in the rain that…

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27.02.2020

Rainy Night Dreams

Joseph Kitchens / Deep South Stories, Writer's Journal

On winter’s rainy nights I sometimes lay awake and try to remember the waters I have known and…