Georgia On My Mind

"Just an old sweet song keeps Georgia on my mind"

11/10/15

Visited several places today:

• Bonaventure Cemetery - historic old cemetery with some interesting people buried there including:
• Johnny Mercer - Academy-award winning lyricist, singer/songwriter/composer, and founder of Capitol Records
• John Walz - sculptor of stone architectural sculptures and relief ornaments for many of Savannah's public buildings, and funerary monuments
• Gracie Watson - 6 y/o girl who died from pneumonia in April 1889. Her father had John Walz sculpt a life-size statue of her for her grave. Some say that she can be seen playing in Johnson Square...
• Fort Pulaski National Monument - in 1862 during the Civil War, the Union Army successfully tested rifled cannon in combat making brick fortifications obsolete. It was also used as a prisoner-of-war camp. The fort was engineered by Robert E. Lee.
• Tybee Island - went by the lighthouse, but it was closed on Tuesdays. Walked out to the beach to enjoy the sound of the ocean.

Went by Wormsloe Historic Plantation, but got there after they closed; I did get to see their famous driveway, though, through the gates (kinda' too dark for a good picture, though).

Bonaventure Cemetery

John Walz's grave & his family's

Gracie Watson's grave (sculpture by John Walz)

the fence around Gracie's gravesite

Johnny Mercer's grave

bench by Johnny Mercer's grave

at Fort Pulaski

the island has become much larger than it was when the fort was built due to dredging of the river and dumping on the island

Tybee Island Lighthouse

Tybee Island Lighthouse

Starting Point: Savannah, GA --> Tybee Island, GA
Ending Point: Savannah, GA
Miles Traveled: 64.3


11/11/15

Did some walking around downtown Savannah after meandering my way around the Veterans' Day Parade route. Visited St. John's Episcopal Church, the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, Juliette Gordon Low's Birthplace, Cracked Earth Monument (WWII Memorial), Moon River Brewing Co (supposedly haunted), and walked along the water down River St. Went to dinner at Crystal Beer Parlor and then passed by the Mercer-Williams House.

Veterans' Day Parade

inside St. John's Episcopal Church

The Cathedral of St. John the Baptist

inside the cathedral - it had to be rebuilt after a fire in 1898

inside the cathedral - it had to be rebuilt after a fire in 1898

posthumous Medal of Freedom

Savannah River

Savannah River

Cracked Earth Monument (WWII Memorial)

Cracked Earth Monument (WWII Memorial)

Savannah River Queen

Mercer-Williams House

Starting Point: Savannah, GA
Ending Point: Savannah, GA
Miles Traveled: 30.2


Total Miles Traveled Thus Far: 19,092 via my car, ~822.5 via another car/truck, ~143.5 via boat, 17.8 via cog (train), 5.34 via aerial tram


~Elizabeth/Lizzi/ET/Country


all photos copyright 2015 Elizabeth M. Turner