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?
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…
08.01.2021
Why Do I Love You, Scarlett?
Joseph Kitchens / Deep South Stories, For the Love of Labs: Our Labrador Retrievers Peachie, Emily, and Tiny Lab, Humor, Uncategorized
I swear I cannot walk by a TV when Gone with the Wind is playing. Maybe it is…
18.12.2020
Finding Your Family in All That History
Joseph Kitchens / Book Reviews, Deep South Stories, Uncategorized, Writer's Journal
My imagination is ignited by the past. You and I continue to live out the consequences of the…
08.12.2020
Are Our National Politics Defined by Our Grievances?
Joseph Kitchens / Book Reviews, Deep South Stories, Writer's Journal
The current airing on a streaming service of the film Hillbilly Elegy, based on J.D. Vance’s memoir, prompted…
24.11.2020
Going to School on Tobacco Road
Joseph Kitchens / Deep South Stories, Humor, Uncategorized, Writer's Journal
This story is true as well as I can remember. We moved to Fleming Heights in Augusta, Georgia…
17.09.2020
A Boy’s Encounter with a Crop Duster
Joseph Kitchens / Deep South Stories, Writer's Journal
In the summer of 1949, I turned seven and on visits to my grandparents, I was free to…
14.08.2020
The Packard Dies on the Road to Tybee
Joseph Kitchens / Deep South Stories, Humor, Uncategorized, Writer's Journal
…where the sand is hard-packed and smooth, and where the water skittered up in a warm wash…
05.08.2020
I Fell Off the Jekyll Island Bridge and Lived to Tell About It
Joseph Kitchens / Deep South Stories, Uncategorized, Writer's Journal
Life was risky around my father. A mix of fierce physicality, keen mind and, when circumstances required, genteel…
20.07.2020
Storm Warning Too Late
Joseph Kitchens / Deep South Stories, Uncategorized, Writer's Journal
My daughter Mary is vacationing on the Gulf of Mexico along the “panhandle” of west Florida. She sent…
01.07.2020
Restoration Mania
Joseph Kitchens / Deep South Stories, Humor, Writer's Journal
When the rising tide of the historic preservation movement caught hold during our Bicentennial celebration in the mid-to-late…
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