Ah Savannah. Man, I really like this town.
The whole of the historic district is only a mile by a mile. So it’s little effort to walk the entire place twice in the course of a day all the while noticing nifty things you didn’t notice on your first walk through. I took a break about mid-afternoon to get out of the heat and realized I needed to retrace some steps because of really neat things I hadn’t noticed: like Joseph E. Johnston’s house, the homes of Conrad Aiken, the site of Forrest Gump’s park bench.
One thing I did notice on every walk by was that the former Georgia Historical Marker denoting Sherman’s Headquarters was missing. And the sign denoting US Army occupation headquarters under OO Howard was hidden by a large palm frond. I was pretty irritated about Sherman’s sign gone missing – when I visited years ago I was so surprised I kissed the porch of the house in gratitude. I decided that, all things considered, and it being Georgia I should be more surprised there ever was a sign at all – not that it had gone missing.
All kinds of nifty stuff in Savannah: Revolutionary War Battlefields where fell Pulaski and Sgt. Jasper, the final resting place of General Nathanael Green, the remains of old Fort Wayne marking the Irish neighborhood, River Street, Factor’s Walk, a very big gay bar. Lovely place.
And I got to spend the entire day without getting in a car! That’s a rare treat, and one to be most definitely savored.