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.24.06.2022
The Middle Passage in Slave Times -and Later
Mid-career I found myself in a new setting. After leaving Pebble Hill Plantation, I served a stint with…
22.06.2022
Connections: Art, Scandal, and Murder
Actually, mostly art. We visited the Philadelphia Museum of Art recently where we saw August Saint-Gaudens’ wonderful sculpture…
18.06.2022
Scenes from Longwood Gardens
During our recent trip to Philadelphia we were eager to see many things. One lay beyond the city…
16.06.2022
Battle Between the Hawks and Crows
Our little subdivision sits astride a short, dead-end blacktop that arcs down to and over a small stream…
14.06.2022
Ten Years on a Yankee Plantation, Episode 2
Prologue. Located in the heart of “Quail Country,” Pebble Hill Plantation -now a popular stop on the road…
11.06.2022
Connections: A Trip to Philadelphia, Bartram’s Travels and a Tree from Georgia’s Colonial Frontier
More than two years into the Covid lockdown, our lives have changed. Gardening has taken over at…