"Fetch aft the rum!"

"Savannah's called the 'Hostess City of the South,' you know. That's because we've always been a 

party town. We love company. We always have. I suppose that comes from being a port city and having played host to people from far-away places for so long. Life in Savannah was always easier than it was out on the plantations. Savannah was a city of rich cotton traders, who lived in elegant houses within strolling distance of one another. Parties became a way of life, and it's made a difference. We're not at all like the rest of Georgia. We have a saying: If you go to Atlanta, the first question people ask you is, 'What's your business?' In Macon they ask, 'Where do you go to church?' In Augusta they ask your grandmother's maiden name. But in Savannah the first question people ask you is 'What would you like to drink?'"

-Mary Harty

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Roses made from corn husks. 

Tall ships. We actually saw these ships a few days ago in Fernandina. 

Speaking of ships, we had dinner at the Pirate House. During our tour of the rum cellar, we learned about how sailors were acquired. They would get nice and drunk and then crewmen would knock them on the head, drag them downstairs (or throw them down the trapdoor) and sneak them out through a tunnel leading to the river. This tunnel was specially designed to sneak rum in to the Pirates House, and into the city (prohibition, you know), but it did double duty to snatch unsuspecting young men and turn them into sailors. Which they would realize when they woke up the next morning aboard a ship, heading across the ocean. 

 

Chipewa Park. It was here that parts of Forrest Gump were filmed (when he's waiting for the bus and telling his story). It was also here that I took a nap on a park bench while my mom shopped nearby. It was a wonderful, restful hour of my life, disturbed only by a local woman in a wheelchair yelling "Is she breathing? Is she bleeding? Call an ambulance!" I turned over, stretched, and assured her that I was fine.