Savannah Blog

  • Savannah Restaurant Tips

    A Few Great Savannah Restaurants

    Eating well in Savannah isn’t a problem. There are any number of excellent restaurants to discover, from classic barbecue joints to more modern cuisine.

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  • Lady Hat Travel Blog

    Lady Hats at the Mansion

    “Lady Hats at the Mansion” is a suggestive title, yes? Is it a metaphor? A play on words? Well, apologies for being so literal, but in this case, we’re referring to actual lady hats.

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  • Beach Institute Art

    The Beach Institute

    Opened in 1856, the Massie School may have been the city’s first public school, but many of Savannah’s aspiring students would have to wait eleven more years for the founding of the Beach Institute:

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  • Savannah River Boats

    The Rowdy Fun of River Street

    Say you’ve got a lady companion on your arm. She’s a fine lady, dainty and demure, and you wish to take a romantic stroll along the river, and perhaps even muster the courage to steal a furtive kiss on the cheek.

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  • Savannah Red Spanish Moss

    Savannah: Five Years Later

    Five years had passed, and we thought it would be a good time to return to Savannah. We wouldn’t be staying for 91 days, this time, but just a couple weeks.

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  • Savannah Square Reynolds Statue

    Reynolds Square

    At the top of Abercorn Street is Reynolds Square, originally laid out in 1734 as Lower New Square, but renamed in honor of the Royal Governor John Reynolds.

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  • Madison Square Travel Blog

    Madison Square

    Madison Square, on Bull Street between Chippewa and Monterey Square, is possibly the most monumental in Savannah.

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  • Laurel Grove Entrance Sign

    Laurel Grove Cemeter(ies)

    Laurel Grove was established in 1853, after the more central Colonial Park Cemetery was deemed too full and closed to further burials.

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  • Old Sheldon Church

    Old Sheldon Church

    The ruins of the Old Sheldon Church are found down a tiny road, in a forest of towering oaks draped in Spanish moss.

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  • Savannah Spanish Moss

    Spanish Moss: Neither Spanish nor Moss

    Spanish moss doesn’t come from Spain. It’s indigenous to the Southeastern US, with a range between Florida, Maryland and Texas

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  • Savannah's Book Bird Girl

    The Inescapable Influence of The Book

    Before we moved to Savannah, me, Jürgen and four-year-old Xiao Liang of Taiwan were the only three people on Earth who hadn’t read Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, by John Berendt. And now, noble Xiao stands alone. Jürgen and I have buckled down and read “The Book.”

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  • Savannah Happy New Years

    Happy 2011 in Savannah

    As 2011 rolled in, we had some things to celebrate… mainly, the fact that we still had another month in Savannah!

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