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?
11.03.2020
Longleaf, A Poem Resurrected
Joseph Kitchens / Deep South Stories, Uncategorized
…shotguns and dogs, covey rises and missed shots…>
10.03.2020
Land of the Longleaf Pines
Joseph Kitchens / Deep South Stories, Uncategorized, Writer's Journal
We just returned from a long weekend in Thomasville in southwest Georgia. Driving back in the rain that…
27.02.2020
Rainy Night Dreams
Joseph Kitchens / Deep South Stories, Writer's Journal
On winter’s rainy nights I sometimes lay awake and try to remember the waters I have known and…
13.02.2020
Mitchell and Warm Springs: A Link Between Two Small Georgia Towns
Joseph Kitchens / Deep South Stories, Uncategorized
I am a subscriber to Brian Brown”s wonderful photo blog, Vanishing South Georgia . If you feel affection…
30.12.2019
The Marquis de Lafayette in Georgia
Joseph Kitchens / Deep South Stories, Uncategorized
We are soon to be hearing a great deal about the Marquis de Lafaytte. As a very young…
30.12.2019
Civil War Era Iron Furnace near Waleska, Georgia
Joseph Kitchens / Deep South Stories
I have quite a library of photographs of little- known or seldom- visited places in Georgia. For those…
05.11.2019
“Finding Your Roots,” Dr. Louis Gates and Why Genealogy Is Not Enough
Joseph Kitchens / Deep South Stories, Writer's Journal
After rereading and posting my review of Dan Miller’s biography of writer Erskine Caldwell, I recalled that the…
21.09.2019
Gough, Georgia: Five Photos from the Early 20th Century
Joseph Kitchens / Deep South Stories, Writer's Journal
This portrait image is of Ellen Ponder Davis Gay ca. 1895, about twenty years younger than in the…
05.09.2019
Aaron Burr in Georgia?
Joseph Kitchens / Deep South Stories, Writer's Journal
Occasionally I stumble across interesting historical sites that are virtually unknown except to those living nearby. This is…
03.09.2019
Georgians! Remember Goliad and the Texas Revolution.
Joseph Kitchens / Deep South Stories, Writer's Journal
Goliad: Georgians in the Texas Revolution It was in the blazing hot summer of 2012. Karen’s brother was…
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