This is a great opportunity to come visit this amazing site and learn about its history while helping the local environment. It will be more than just a cleanup day, hope to see you there!
Sunset at Mallows Bay
The Ghost Fleet fades into the cover of night and an incoming tide.
The captivating salt marshes of St. Simons Island, GA: My Happy Place
“….Somehow my soul seems suddenly free From the weighing of fate an the sad discussion of sin, By the length and the breadth and the sweep of the marshes of Glynn.” – Sidney Lanier, 1878 So wrote Sidney Lanier over a century ago about his beloved South, and today this feeling continues along the land…
Weird Wednesday: The Cottingley Fairies
This is a story that has captivated my attention since I was a little girl. It was 1917 in Cottingley, UK when two cousins, Elsie Wright, then 16 and her 10 year old cousin Frances Griffiths created two photographs- one of Frances with fairies and another of Elise with a gnome. These pictures were shown…
Savannah Saturday: Haint Blue
There was a point in time when a certain hue was widely accepted as a means of protecting one’s home from the threat of spirits entering. The theory holds that these ghosts, called haints, cannot cross water. Thus, painting the exterior of a structure the color of water will trick these malicious haints into staying…
The Roberds Dairy: A glimpse into Savannah’s agricultural past
On a recent winter morning, I took a trip with some friends to explore the site of an abandoned dairy. I had no idea anything like this even existed in Savannah, being such a humid and urban place it’s hard to imagine cows grazing on a marsh. But apparently they did, and there is proof…
Adaptive Rehabilitation in Downtown Savannah: The Warren A. Candler Hospital
With so many vacant and unused properties throughout downtown Savannah, it is nice to the transformation from vacant to vibrant in what is arguably one of the most captivating buildings in the city. The Warren A. Candler Hospital, or the Old Candler Hospital as it is commonly referred to, was the first hospital in Georgia….
The Weak and the Wounded: Film Explores and Embraces Asylum’s Dark Past
With the Halloween season in full swing, I find myself spending late evening hours watching creepy movies in the dark. One of my absolute favorites is the psychological horror film “Session 9,” a cult favorite filmed in 2000 at the now demolished 500 acre Danvers State Hospital site near Boston. When it still stood, the Danvers…
Final Resting Places of the Victorian Era
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…
Divergent Wanderings 