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.13.10.2021
Connections: The Long Way Home from Apalachicola
The long drive home from St. George Island and Apalachicola began along the stretch of coastal highway through…
07.10.2021
Mystery Roots of Emily the Lab
To refresh your memory, we lost our dignified and beautiful “Peachie” the Lab two years ago. Peachie had…
05.10.2021
Emily’s Halloween Birthday
03.10.2021
Connections: Complex History Along Florida’s “Forgotten Coast”
After a year of near isolation, we ventured to the Gulf Coast of west Florida, celebrating our anniversary…
28.09.2021
Relic of a Vanishing Georgia Town
My grandfather, Calvin Leon Sego, grew up in Augusta but left at 19 -perhaps a reaction to the…
15.09.2021
Connections: A Florida Masterpiece, Georgia Marble and a Small- Town Gem
On a recent trip to Desoto Falls State Park in northwest Georgia, we opted for a “trail talk”…
04.09.2021
Connections: The Cowboy Legend, the Georgia Coastal Plain, and the Way to Texas
Our drive to Houston, Goliad and San Antonio took us through cattle country, reminding me that not only…
01.09.2021
Connections: Georgia, the Texas Revolution and the Tate Marble Quarry
Several years ago, we drove west to Houston to visit a sick family member. On impulse, and because…