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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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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11.03.2023

The Lincoln Memorial, Georgia Marble and How We Memorialize Our Heroes

/ Deep South Stories, Writer's Journal

You might be surprised to learn that the famous statue of Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial was created…

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25.02.2023

Review: Kenneth H. Wheeler, Modern Cronies; Southern Industrialism from Gold Rush to Convict Labor, 1829-1894. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2020.

/ Book Reviews, Deep South Stories

Except as an adjunct to genealogy, local and regional histories often have little to offer because they fail…

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27.01.2023

The “Great War” Brings Prosperity -and Despair- to God’s Smallest Places

/ Deep South Stories, Uncategorized, Writer's Journal

N.B.: The article below is a prequel to my previous article on the 1926 banking crash in Georgia…

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23.12.2022

The 1926 Atlanta Banking Crisis: “Three or more crooks, sharpers or fools may apply to the Secretary of State and secure a (bank) charter.”

/ Deep South Stories, Writer's Journal

US involvement in World War I was relatively brief and left our European allies deeply in financial debt…

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28.11.2022

The Last Joro

/ Uncategorized

Last Joro. It seems I was mistaken . Charlotte, the beautiful Joro spider we allowed to dominate our…

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