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?
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…
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…
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