We saw the original metal film canister from Troop Beverly Hills (one of my favorite childhood movies) at Leopold's.
Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) owns half the town. literally. and we are thankful, because they are who helped spur/finance the restoration of the town.
St. John's Cathedral was pretty. No docent led tours of it :( The Baptismal font was GIGANTIC.
Originally, Catholicism wasn't allowed in Georgia, but they had an Anglican church and an Episcopalian church...and TWO African churches. They also had a John Wesley statue.
I love the large oaks that you can walk under, and the moss hanging off them. It's beautiful! Brittany said "You just like it because it's Spanish moss." hahaha.
Everything our tour guide said was "_____ is the 1st/oldest__________ in America/Georgia."
We visited the only Gothic Architecture style Synagogue in America. It was a little disconcerting. I kept thinking I'd see a stain glass window depicting Jesus or a station of the cross. The congregation is the 3rd oldest Jewish congregation in America.
She-crab soup!!!!!!!!
Rum Bisque Ice Cream!!!!!!
I'd almost like to come back to Savannah and just spend the whole week eating at every restaurant. That might get a leeetle expensive.
so Flannery O'Connor...
-according to our tour book, the house was only open on the weekends, so you can imagine my surprise and delight when it was open when we showed up!!
1. She started calling her parents by their first names when she was SIX.
2. She stopped playing with dolls when she was FOUR.
3. She wrote in her books at a young age, on the title page. "splendid first read" or "not a very good book"
4. The only fairy tales she liked were Grimm's.
5. She had a pet chicken that she taught to walk backwards.
http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=28819
and then she was on film for it!
6. She quit going to children's Mass and started going to adult latin Mass at age 6. When her school teachers found out, they told her parents she should be at the children's Mass, and Flannery said "I won't let the church dictate which service I go to!"' She was the only child in the adult latin Mass.
7. She didn't like other kids, but her mom forced her to have play dates.
8. She didn't care to spell right. About each of her classes she said "I would have gotten 100, but they marked me down for my spelling." On her report card that they showcased, spelling was her worst grade, 78, and algebra was her best! ha.
9. Her house was super skinny!!! But it had a fabulous door with multicolored glass.
10. She made her "friends" read her books out loud, or her writings out loud. That was her favorite activity, and she often made them reread parts she liked.
11. The tour guide said we should read her books out loud, because that's how she wrote them, saying all the words out loud while writing them down.
12. The bed set that her parents got when they were married was two tiny pine beds. They almost looked child sized. eeek. Later, their cousin Katie bought them a real bed.
ok. that's all :)
Highlights from the beach include:
My brother getting stung by a sting ray.
Catching 56 sand dollars.
The children that are so precocious and talk to strangers, i.e. me.
Running into one of my sister's college friends! (She knew he was on the island, but there are 12 miles of beach, what are the odds?!)
The white sand blowing over the hard wet sand like snow flurries
Kicking a soccer ball WITH the wind. It went faster than we could run! eeek.
The 230498309248 families getting their family pictures taken on the beach every night wearing all white. Really, it's only 10-15 families, but gracious me, it seems like an epidemic.
If you have never read "I am the Cheese" by Robert Cormier, you should.
ok. that's really all.
