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.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…
08.11.2019
Our Beloved Labrador Peachie (2005-2019)
Karen and I said our goodbyes to our wonderful yellow lab two weeks ago, just a few days…
31.10.2019
Dan B. Miller, Erskine Caldwell; The Journey from Tobacco Road. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.
“…lurid covers and movie posters only reinforced the indignation many southerner felt….”
25.10.2019
Erika Dethlefs Passantino, Coffee Hour in Flensburg; Stories of War and Peace, of Adventure and Love. Amazon, 2019.
As a Georgia writer and reader, I occasionally come across something remarkable: a book I nearly missed by…
21.09.2019
Woodrow Stretcher on Chicken High
Stretcher Morphs to Rooster “Even the man whose heart is pure, and says his prayer as you and…
17.09.2019
Hank Margeson photographer, text by Joseph Kitchens. Quail Plantations of South Georgia and North Florida. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1991.
One day in the summer of 1991 I was sitting at my desk at Pebble Hill Plantation near…
11.09.2019
Laurence Bergreen, Columbus: The Four Voyages, 1492-1504. New York: Penguin, 2012.
Those who have read Samuel Elliott Morison’s Admiral of the Ocean Sea (1942) will wonder if this work…