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?
15.03.2020
Augusta Mail Boy Flees Spanish Flu Epidemic
Joseph Kitchens / Deep South Stories, Writer's Journal
The current health crisis caused by the Corona Virus reminds us that viruses have posed an enormous challenge…
11.03.2020
Antietam, Bloodiest Day of the Civil War
Joseph Kitchens / Deep South Stories, Poetry, Uncategorized
The following poem by Joseph Hugh Kitchens III was inspired by a news that the National Museum of…
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…