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?
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…
18.06.2020
Menaboni Retrospective at Marietta Cobb Museum of Art
Joseph Kitchens / Deep South Stories, Uncategorized, Writer's Journal
After months of home isolation during the Covid epidemic, we took a bit of a risk to get…
28.05.2020
A Girl is to Hang: The Spann-Eberhart Tragedy Unfolds in Preston, Georgia
Joseph Kitchens / Deep South Stories, Writer's Journal
The tiny Webster County jail where the two convicted murders were held following their conviction during months of…
23.05.2020
Drinks with Millicent, A Rich’s Legend
Joseph Kitchens / Deep South Stories, Humor, Uncategorized, Writer's Journal
Rich’s in its heyday as the greatest department store in Atlanta was a sight to behold through…
19.04.2020
Georgia Marble, the Lincoln Memorial and Daniel Chester French
Joseph Kitchens / Deep South Stories, Uncategorized, Writer's Journal
You might be surprised to learn that the famous statue of Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial was created…
14.04.2020
The Exceptional Now: A Season of Fear
Joseph Kitchens / Deep South Stories, Uncategorized, Writer's Journal
Every generation rewrites the past. In easy times history is more or less of an ornamental art, but…
30.03.2020
Satisfying Recognition for This Writer
Joseph Kitchens / Deep South Stories, Uncategorized, Writer's Journal
In yesterdy’s mail arrived a letter from Kevin Grogan, Director of the Morris Museum of Art. He and…
28.03.2020
Thomas Wesley Loyless, Fighting Editor, Friend of FDR
Joseph Kitchens / Deep South Stories, Uncategorized, Writer's Journal
For reasons I can only imagine, visitation to my website has grown exponentially-and I enjoy knowing that some…
21.03.2020
Remembering A Friend’s Battle with Polio
Joseph Kitchens / Deep South Stories, Writer's Journal
The current crisis over the Corona virus reminded me that I had my own tragic experience with an…