Savannah drips with Southern hospitality, and humidity, too! The historic district has squares lined with oak trees bearing trails of Spanish moss. It’s a very walkable city, humming with music, art and great food.
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- Savannah comes alive at night, thanks to a student population from SCAD, Savannah College of Art and Design.
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- Aboard the Savannah Belles ferry.
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- The Cotton Exchange was built in 1872, when Savannah was the “Wall Street of the South”. A little insect, the boll weevil, rendered the building obsolete by 1920.
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- Historic cobblestones make walking a little dicey.
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- My hero! We had 3 flat tires in 3 days. He changed this one with semi trucks whizzing by.
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- The first Girl Scout troop was established in Savannah by Juliette Gordon Low.
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- Johnny Mercer? He wrote 1,400 songs (from Baby It’s Cold Outside to Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah) and co-founded Capitol Records.
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- As Forest Gump said on this bench, “Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get”.
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- John Wesley came from England to evangelize to Native Americans, but he ended up with European settlers, and founded the Methodist church.
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- Battlefield Park is a memorial to the second bloodiest battle in the Revolutionary War, in 1779.
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- More than 8,000 troops fought for 30 days. When the dust cleared and the casualties were buried, the British had control of Savannah.
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- We happened on a proposal in Forsyth Park. She said YES!
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- On St. Patrick’s Day, the fountain is ceremonially died green, in honor of Savannah’s deep Irish heritage.
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- The old US Custom House has columns topped by tobacco leaves.
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- Savannah has 49 inches of rainfall per year. Even Seattle only has 36 inches!
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