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.06.05.2022
Ten Years on a Yankee Plantation, Episode1
Introduction to the Series Located in the heart of “Quail Country,” Pebble Hill Plantation is a 2,000- acre…
25.04.2022
Is There Life Beyond Academia? What I Discovered Outside the Ivy Walls
After fifteen years as a history profssor at a state university, I left college teaching. I My…
18.04.2022
As the Blade Turns: The Zen of Lawn Mower Repair
Spring has brought the usual tasks-and kept me away from writing. There are the usual lawn treatments to…
06.04.2022
Connections: A Photojournalist, A Professor and a Family Counselor…Reuniting With Friends
Actually, it was not a bar, but an art gallery. After posting plans for Neil McGahee’s photography exhibit…
17.03.2022
Photo Exhibition by Neil McGahee,
“In Ordinary Times” comes to Reinhardt’s Falany March 21-April 8, 2022 My former student and longtime friend, Neil…
28.02.2022
Redux: Mitchell and Warm Springs; A Link Between Two Small Georgia Towns and President Roosevelt
This is a republishing of my earlier post about the links between two small Georgia towns, links that…
14.02.2022
Connections: A Georgia Soldier, Two Presidents, and the TITANIC Disaster
If you have toured the stately antebellum homes in Roswell, Georgia you likely know that President Theodore Roosevelt’s…