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.17.02.2020
Yellow Dog Blues
My readers often ask about my late labrador retriever “Peachie.” And of course, friends still console me because…
16.02.2020
Snow on the Roof, February 2020
Snow comes only occassionally to Tate, Georgia, though it is more common to see it lace the mountain…
15.02.2020
Cherokee vs. Creeks: Who Owned Georgia?
When I am speaking to various groups and am asked the question “What Indians lived here?” my answer…
28.01.2020
Big Screen Cowboy
Like ninety percent of the boys of my generation, I wanted to be a cowboy and spent many…
20.01.2020
Sis Meets Margaret Thatcher (Sort of)
Despite an aversion to following in our father’s footsteps, my sister has a definite penchant for falling into…
20.01.2020
Lila and Millie: Even our Grand Kids are Dogs
Since Peachie, our 14-tear-old Labrador, left us in October, the house has been quiet. Of course we still…
08.01.2020
Theo Lippman, Jr., The Squire of Warm Springs; FDR in Georgia, 1924-1945.Chicago: Playboy Press, 1977.
I have been a professional historian all my adult life and know that it is often sentiment that…
06.01.2020
Woodrow Strecher: The Groundhog War
When I wandered into the Three Brothers Barbecue last Thursday, I had not seen Woodrow Stretcher since his…