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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28.11.2023

The Reluctant Gardener

/ Humor, Nature, Writer's Journal

After years of resisting gardening because I know little about it, I have finally given in. There is…

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21.09.2023

Jimmy Buffett is Gone -It’s Been a Lovely Cruise

/ Connections, Deep South Stories, Uncategorized, Writer's Journal

Jimmy Buffett’s music will provide the musical score for my life story when the movie is made. Reanimated…

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01.09.2023

Bank Crisis Fuels Suicides in Atlanta and Woodstock

/ Deep South Stories, Uncategorized, Writer's Journal

 Driving south along a deserted stretch of road near Woodstock around midnight on October 11, 1926, John N….

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16.08.2023

Redux: The Georgia Banking Crisis of 1926 (A Prequel published earlier about the Manley Banking Scheme and its Tragic Consequences

/ Deep South Stories, Writer's Journal

“Three or more crooks, sharpers or fools may apply to the Secretary of State and secure a (bank)…

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16.08.2023

Desperate Decade: Georgia BEFORE the Great Crash of 1929

/ Deep South Stories, Writer's Journal

Mitchell, Georgia in the mid-2000’s. one of hundreds of small farm towns that emerged in the decades following…

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08.07.2023

Joro Redux

/ Nature, Uncategorized, Writer's Journal

State Officials and experts are already posting about the return of the Joro spider for the 1923 season….

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29.06.2023

Connections: A Georgia Soldier, Two Presidents, and the TITANIC Disaster

/ Uncategorized

The great luxury liner Titanic is again in the news and I thought it would be timely to…

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27.06.2023

Fathers Day: A Look at the Times in Which My Father Lived

/ Deep South Stories, Uncategorized

Come Father’s Day once again, and I often find myself reflecting on the times in which my father…

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14.06.2023

We Never Forget Our Dogs

/ For the Love of Labs: Our Labrador Retrievers Peachie, Emily, and Tiny Lab

“….his personality jumped out of the box before he did.”

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13.04.2023

Connections: Tate, Georgia and Florida’s Bok Tower

/ Uncategorized

The day after my presentation to the Ball Ground Historical Society (March 28th) on Georgia Marble and the…

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