Savannah Day 3

We devoted our entire third day in Savannah to touring a couple of houses that I definitely wanted to see. First, we made our way to the Mercer-Williams House, the scene of the "incident" in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. While I was unable to take any pictures inside the house, I was able to get a pretty decent picture from across the street. It was really cool to see the inside of this house. In a little bit of movie trivia, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil wasn't the only movie shot in this house. The parlor of the Mercer-Williams House was used as the study of Matthew Broderick's character in Glory. They say that if you pay careful attention in several scenes from Glory, you can see a palm tree growing outside in the yard. Palm trees would definitely not survive in Boston! We continued on with our touring of historic houses by touring the birthplace of Juliette Gordon Low, the founder of the Girl Scouts. It was neat to see where she grew up, and I was a bit surprised that her family was considered "middle class". To me, it seemed that they were pretty wealthy. After that, we went to the Telfair Museum of Art, where we were lucky enough to get up close and personal with the statue of Bird Girl, the famous statue from Midnight in the Garden. Originally, this statue was in a family plot in Bonaventure Cemetery, but idiots in search of the statue started disrupting burial services and destroying and damaging graves by tromping through them to see the statue, so the family donated the statue to the Telfair for safe keeping. In a related note, we did go to Bonaventure Cemetery just to see it. There were some pretty amazing tombstones and statues in the older plots of the cemetery. I'll be sure to link pictures that we took in Savannah. After a long day of touring around Savannah, Kenny and I headed back toward Central Georgia where we spent the night just south of Macon. All in all, Savannah was a pretty amazing place. It kind of reminded me of New Orleans before Katrina, although much less wild and bawdy. Much to my disappointment, I didn't get to see the Lady Chablis. She wasn't performing again until August 11th, and Kenny had to be back to work by August 6th. Oh well, I guess I'll save that for my next visity.