Category: Deep South Stories
Reader- inspired stories of their family’s encounters with history. Do you have a story about how history impacted you or your family? Or is there a story handed down in your family of a historic event or personality impacting your family. Ask yourself a few questions to get you started: Where was my grandfather born? What did my mother do during the war? Did anyone famous ever visit my town?
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…
27.06.2023
Fathers Day: A Look at the Times in Which My Father Lived
Joseph Kitchens / Deep South Stories, Uncategorized
Come Father’s Day once again, and I often find myself reflecting on the times in which my father…
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…
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.
Joseph Kitchens / Book Reviews, Deep South Stories
Except as an adjunct to genealogy, local and regional histories often have little to offer because they fail…
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…