I kind of like these posts! I get to choose photos and relive a trip, or time, of my life. After much thought, I have decided that today is….Savannah, Georgia! For those who do not know, I am also a private college consultant, and Randy and I took a trip to Savannah to check out Savannah College of Art and Design. Fabulous school…and we fell in love with the city. It feels like going into the past…it is charming and beautiful, with so much history! We also loved the river, and the Bonaventure Cemetery. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil…we only saw the good side of Savannah!
And who, you ask, was Johnny Mercer? An American lyricist, songwriterand singer. He was also a co-founder of Capitol Records.
General Nathanael Greene, second in command to General George Washington, is interred in Savannah. General Greene is an ancestor of Randy’s, on his mother’s side.
As their website says, “It is a place full of nostalgia and intriguing characters. It is a colorful mosaic of times and people and the bonds that have formed throughout the years. The feelings of home and family are evident when you walk through the door. As you look around at all of the knickknacks, paintings, family pictures and memorabilia that form its décor, you may wonder how a drugstore could have evolved into what you see now…..World Famous Clary’s Café. ” If you go to Savannah, you must eat at Clary’s!
The Northern Troops camped in Savannah’s sacred Colonial Park Cemetery, and defaced many of the tombstones, and changed dates and performed other mischief. When you go, be sure to view these stones.
We loved our visit to Savannah, and looking at these photos, I’d love to go back! I have an excuse, I have 3 students at the Savannah College of Art and Design!
Looks like it was a great trip !! Good photo’s as well. It is a place I plan to visit in the future.
Barb
It was a fun trip. We went in 2012, so not all that long ago. We went earlier in the year, I hear the summers can be brutal with the humidity. Thanks, and hope to see you soon.
You’ve captured the flavor of the place so well! One of my favorite Southern destinations, Tam.
It is absolutely southern!
I have several former students who went to SCAD, fell in love and have stayed. It is such a charming place! Thanks for sharing!
It is a quaint little place! I love the art feel throughout the city from SCAD.
I attended Williams College, a small, isolated liberal arts college in the Berkshires of northwestern Massachusetts. One of my good friends was from Savannah—-talk about a fish out of water. He stuck out the 4 years, but he doesn’t share my fond memories of my college years. When I visited him in Savannah, I realized why he had culture shock for four years. Nice photos.
Beautiful pictures! I was just recently in Savannah and it definitely a wonderful city!
It is, isn’t it? Full of history and mystery!
I’d love to see this! We don’t have history here in Edmonton, Alberta. Here, if a building reaches the grand old age of 50, its pulled down and replaced. With newer and uglier and vastly more . . . inferior. My Husby’s an historian. I live for our trips into the past. It looks like Savannah needs to be one of them!
Ah you would love it. It is like stepping back in time.
I love Savannah, it’s been too long since I visited last – and your trip took me back to some wonderful places I really enjoyed seeing the last time I was there – beautiful!
Yes, I loved Savannah too. So charming!
What a lovely place. I’ve been to Atlanta, but never Savannah. It looks like it might be worth a visit!