Longleaf Journal

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?

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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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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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22.07.2019

The Sun is Going Down on Gough, Georgia (Part 1)

Joseph Kitchens / Deep South Stories, Writer's Journal

The sun is going down on many small towns

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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…