I spent this sunny Sunday afternoon taking a long walk through Bonaventure Cemetery in Thunderbolt, GA. Although it is 10 minutes down the road from where I live, I don’t visit it nearly enough. Every live oak-shaded path on this vast 160-acre property is filled with epic monuments-large and small- celebrating lives who have moved…
Category: Community Relations
Northern and Southern?!? The identity crisis of a state just below the Mason-Dixon Line
“I’m visiting my cousins from the south,” as my cousin Tim from Massachusetts referred to my brothers and I on a phonecall. “Y’all’s a bunch of Yankees,” said a Florida man my friends and I encountered in a town near Lake Worth, FL. When our Northern neighbors call us Southern and when our Southern neighbors…
They Fix Anything But A Broken Heart: Bradley’s Lock and Key is a Savannah Gold Standard
After living in Savannah for 2.5 years, I finally had the chance to go into this amazing little shop. It always drew my interest when passing by, but it wasn’t until my boss needed copies of a key made that I went in. Upon entering, I was immediately taken back to another place and time….
Shopping Local for Christmas and beyond
Every winter the holiday season seems to get more and more commercialized, with corporate greed seeming to trump common sense and the whole holidays bringing people together idea. This concept is not lost on many people, as evidenced by the recent Occupy movement, as well as just conversations I have had with various friends and…
What makes a community?
It is precisely this question that we sought answers for one summer day in West Savannah. Working with a group of 3 students in a summer camp at the Moses Jackson Advancement Center (MJAC), we explored the elements that make a place more than a series of houses. MJAC exists to improve the lives of…
Divergent Wanderings 