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Alright, we did it. The show was too expensive and rather bad, as we suspected it would be. Still, we couldn’t leave Savannah without seeing the Lady Chablis at least once.

She was the highlight of Saturday night’s two-hour long drag show at Club One. The Lady, who makes her home in Columbia SC, waltzed onto the stage after five other drag queens of varying quality had performed. One of them didn’t know any of the lyrics to the song she was lip-syncing, and that song was Aretha’s Think! Which everyone knows! But whatever: the crowd (middle-aged, white, Mid-Western) was there only to see Miss You-Know-Who.

And Chablis didn’t disappoint. Her act was short, but fun. She looks great; lithe and elegant, and her sassy, dirty banter was hilarious and mildly shocking. She’s a true character, and it’s obvious why John Berendt wanted her in his novel, and Clint Eastwood wanted her in his film.

But let’s cut to the chase. All you really want to know is: would I hit that? The answer is: Yes. Yes, I would totally hit that.

ACH! I’m just joking! Of course I wouldn’t.*

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About half-an-hour north of Beaufort, there’s a place in the woods which has become one of the low country’s favorite secrets. The ruins of the Old Sheldon Church are found down a tiny road, in a forest of towering oaks draped in Spanish moss.

The Prince William’s Parish Church was originally built around 1750, but was burnt down by the British during the Revolution. It was rebuilt in in 1826, and once again met a violent death during the Civil War, finding itself in the thoughtlessly destructive path of General Sherman. Since then, it’s been left to ruin.

But what ruins they are! Somehow, huge bricked walls with intact archways have defied gravity and stand up tall, while a number of columns sprout from the ground as though in competition with the oaks. Scattered around the site are a number of graves, some too worn to read, some mostly sunk into the ground. Within the church sits the tombstone of William Bull, who was of great assistance to Oglethorpe in the layout and development of Savannah, and is whom Bull Street is named after.

For immediately apparent reasons, Old Sheldon Church is a popular place for wedding portraits. If you find yourself anywhere in the area, and it’s a sunny day, make the trip over. It’s an unforgettable scene.

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Laid out in 1791, Warren Square was named in honor of General Joseph Warren, a Revolutionary hero from Massachusetts who was killed at the Battle of Bunker Hill. Warren Square itself looks like a battlefield — in a fight being waged between the forces of preservation and development.

On the square’s west side is a hulking parking lot, damaging Warren’s aesthetics and rudely truncating the lovely St. Julian Street, which is notable for the oyster shells in its pavement. Turn your attention to the east of the square, however, and an entirely different picture emerges.

On Habersham and especially on St. Julian, there are a number of splendidly restored houses, some of which were moved here from other locations. With its Savannah grey brick, the house at 420-422 E. St. Julian is particularly striking, as it’s so isolated from other buildings. Another excellently restored house is at 24 Habersham, which was built in 1797 by a plantation owner from Daufuskie Island. It hosted Marquis de Lafyette in 1825, and served as a makeshift hospital during the yellow fever epidemic of 1876.

Warren Square itself is almost completely nondescript. There’s a nicely kept yard, but no statues or markers of any kind. But with its location near the river, the beauty of the homes on the east side, and since you probably parked in that hideous garage on the west side anyway, there are plenty of reasons to make a swing through it.

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