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?
04.01.2022
A Child Walks off Into the Woods
Joseph Kitchens / Deep South Stories, Writer's Journal
We lived in an idyllic but isolated place in the middle of a longleaf pine forest, half a…
19.12.2021
A Compact Calamity in Our 1951 Henry J
Joseph Kitchens / Deep South Stories, Humor, Uncategorized, Writer's Journal
Baby at the Wheel We are traveling a red-clay road through September-dry farmland. My mother (we…
08.12.2021
Atlanta Confidential: Christmas Catastrophy Unfolds As My Aunts Are Tossed Out of the South’s Finest Department Store
Joseph Kitchens / Deep South Stories, Humor, Writer's Journal
(Note: I have many new readers and am continuing to repost some of my favorite earlier publications and…
05.11.2021
A Pardon for the Confederate Turkey!
Joseph Kitchens / Deep South Stories, Humor, Writer's Journal
We have all watched the scene dozens of times in TV reruns of the film Gone with the…
30.09.2021
Invasion of the Giant Spiders
Joseph Kitchens / Deep South Stories, For the Love of Labs: Our Labrador Retrievers Peachie, Emily, and Tiny Lab, Humor
When I was a boy, the typical fare at the theaters (remember those places where we used to…
08.09.2021
Gough, Georgia: An Early Twentieth Century Scene, ca. 1917
Joseph Kitchens / Deep South Stories, Uncategorized
I have written elsewhere on this site several articles about the lives of my family ancestors who lived…
05.07.2021
In My Father’s Time, Part 3 (Conclusion)
Joseph Kitchens / Deep South Stories, Uncategorized, Writer's Journal
There is much I have left out of this story of the ways in which history impacted my…
23.06.2021
In My Father’s Time, Part Two
Joseph Kitchens / Deep South Stories, Uncategorized
It is suggestive that our family has no photographs taken of my father in his teens. To continue…
22.06.2021
In My Father’s Time, Part One
Joseph Kitchens / Deep South Stories, Uncategorized
I suppose many of my generation remember our fathers from young childhood experiences, but our fathers often disappear…