Category: Writer’s Journal
Writer’s journal about my life, my Georgia, my family.
28.11.2023
The Reluctant Gardener
Joseph Kitchens / Humor, Nature, Writer's Journal
After years of resisting gardening because I know little about it, I have finally given in. There is…
21.09.2023
Jimmy Buffett is Gone -It’s Been a Lovely Cruise
Joseph Kitchens / 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…
01.09.2023
Bank Crisis Fuels Suicides in Atlanta and Woodstock
Joseph Kitchens / 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….
16.08.2023
Redux: The Georgia Banking Crisis of 1926 (A Prequel published earlier about the Manley Banking Scheme and its Tragic Consequences
Joseph Kitchens / Deep South Stories, Writer's Journal
“Three or more crooks, sharpers or fools may apply to the Secretary of State and secure a (bank)…
16.08.2023
Desperate Decade: Georgia BEFORE the Great Crash of 1929
Joseph Kitchens / 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…
08.07.2023
Joro Redux
Joseph Kitchens / Nature, Uncategorized, Writer's Journal
State Officials and experts are already posting about the return of the Joro spider for the 1923 season….
11.03.2023
The Lincoln Memorial, Georgia Marble and How We Memorialize Our Heroes
Joseph Kitchens / Deep South Stories, Writer's Journal
You might be surprised to learn that the famous statue of Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial was created…
27.01.2023
The “Great War” Brings Prosperity -and Despair- to God’s Smallest Places
Joseph Kitchens / 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…
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.”
Joseph Kitchens / Deep South Stories, Writer's Journal
US involvement in World War I was relatively brief and left our European allies deeply in financial debt…
28.11.2022
Cotton Crash in 1920’s Georgia
Joseph Kitchens / Deep South Stories, Writer's Journal
My mother’s father, Calvin Sego, moved to the little town of Gough in 1919. The village was itself…