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?
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…
10.08.2022
Waters I Have Loved #3: Mill Ponds
Joseph Kitchens / Deep South Stories, Writer's Journal
My father continued a long tradition when he returned from service in World War II: fishing the mill…
04.08.2022
Waters I Have Loved #2: An Ocean in Flames
Joseph Kitchens / Deep South Stories, Uncategorized, Writer's Journal
My father was many things: son of a family down on its luck because of the Depression, self-taught…
03.08.2022
Redux: A Link Between Two Small Towns and FDR
Joseph Kitchens / Connections, Deep South Stories, Writer's Journal
For reasons I cannot explain, this has been the most popular of all my 150 or so posts…
31.07.2022
Redux: Waters I Have Loved #1
Joseph Kitchens / Deep South Stories
The great response to my last post “Black Water Encounter” inspires me to re-post some of my earlier…
29.07.2022
Black Water Encounter
Joseph Kitchens / Deep South Stories, Writer's Journal
The ancient Sturgeon is being restored to Georgia waters. My own family lore is peppered with stories of…
18.07.2022
In Dog Years
Joseph Kitchens / Deep South Stories, For the Love of Labs: Our Labrador Retrievers Peachie, Emily, and Tiny Lab
One way to write the story of my life might be to break it up using the names…
12.05.2022
“Baby” on the Dirt Road: Recalling My Mother’s Grit
Joseph Kitchens / Deep South Stories, Humor, Writer's Journal
We are traveling a red clay road in dry September. Dust roils though the car windows. We…
07.02.2022
Connections: Albany, Georgia Welcomes World War II RAF Pilots
Joseph Kitchens / Connections, Deep South Stories, Uncategorized
On the rarest of occasions, I have brushed up against historically significant people and events. Such a time…
28.01.2022
Connections: Georgians and the Spanish War, Arizona Troops in Georgia, and a Fight Erupts to Save Albany’s “Big Oak”
Joseph Kitchens / Connections, Deep South Stories, Writer's Journal
By 1898, “Yellow journalists” had made “muckraking” articles about corruption, anarchy, war and murder the fodder for the…
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