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?
18.08.2019
Calvary Episcopal Church in Americus, Georgia
Joseph Kitchens / Deep South Stories, Writer's Journal
Churches are the anchors of many small towns, spiritually, historically, socially and architecturally. This lovely church-in my opinion…
17.08.2019
The Sun is Going Down on Gough, Georgia: Photo of Town Watering Pump
Joseph Kitchens / Deep South Stories
In an earlier post (The Sun is Going Down on Gough, Georgia, Part 2) I describe a scene…
10.08.2019
Atlanta Confidential/1960 (Part 2)
Joseph Kitchens / Deep South Stories, Writer's Journal
Men and the Mail in Underground Atlanta At the end of my first quarter of college at West…
05.08.2019
The Sun is Going Down on Gough, Georgia (Part 2)
Joseph Kitchens / Deep South Stories, Writer's Journal
Elegy for a Small Town My mother’s life was forever altered by her father’s surprising decision to leave…
01.06.2019
Arminta’s Quilt
Joseph Kitchens / Deep South Stories
Note for the reader: This letter to my daughter about her great-great grandmother’s life and the quilt I…