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         The newspaper story told of his being honored by the Veterans of Foreign Wars, how in Savannah he rescued a family from a burning home, that he himself is a husband and father of five children, and that his craft is a way for him to preserve nature.  I learned the sweetgrass of Georgia is slowly disappearing.

         The next day Allan and I took a Trolley Tour of Savannah and I couldn't stop taking pictures of the giant majestic Live Oaks.  They were everywhere and especially prominent in the Squares of Savannah.  We learned there were 24 such squares in the city, each of them like parks and comparable in function to our roundabouts.  You drive around them, not through them. 

         In those squares we found more magnificent Live Oaks, most all of them dripping with Spanish Moss which, we were told, is neither Spanish nor Moss but a living growing plant that shelters creatures like bats and bugs.  We learned that early Southerners used the "moss" to stuff pillows and mattresses and that's where we get the saying, "Don't let the bed bugs bite."

         It was a hop-on hop-off trolley like we found in Copenhagen a couple years ago, and that's exactly what we did.  We hopped on at the Ellis Inn, hopped off at Johnson Square, hopped on at Forsythe Park, hopped off at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist. hopped off at Ellis Inn.

         Then we drove to Tybee Island, Hilton Head, and enjoyed a couple days in Charleston, which we learned is called a Sister City of Savannah.  In some ways, I found them to be Twin Sisters, in other ways not even siblings. 

         For us, the highlight of Charleston was visiting Fort Sumter and learning more about the Civil War.  The Soul of the  South was scarred, yet saved, in those sad and tragic years.

 

 

 

More Soul of the South is located in Sue’s Album.

The Victoria GAZETTE

April 2014