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.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…
23.12.2019
Max Cleland with Ben Raines, Heart of a Patriot; How I Found the Courage to Survive Vietnam, Walter Reed and Karl Rove. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2009.
I met Max Cleland while serving as director of the Pebble Hill Foundation in Thomasville, Georgia. I lived…
14.12.2019
Poems of the Great War by Joseph Kitchens III, Part IV
Readers will recall I challenged my son Joseph Kitchens III to write a poem about the First World…
23.11.2019
Lost Dog: Peachie the Labrador
We are still grieving over the loss of our yellow lab, Peachie, our friend and family member for…
18.11.2019
Woodrow Stretcher; DNA Testing Reveals Straight-Legged Genes
Before going to the Three Brothers Barbecue for dinner, I had once again wasted a perfectly good Saturday…