More from Savannah

There is a part in "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" which discusses the tendencies of Savannhians to drive after having a few drinks. In particular, the narrator mentions a row of trees on the edge of a park which are all scarred at about bumper level. Mom and I had an excuse to drive down this stretch of park, the trees are in fact damaged at bumper level. I was amused.

The picture I'm attaching is series of overhead walkways above the street close to the Savannah river. These are called "Factor's Walks". A Factor is someone with the math skills (arithmetic) to handle the buying and selling of cotton and other goods for the people who buy and sell goods off the boats. The Factor would stand on the walkway and direct the flow of goods underneath them into the warehouses in the lower floor. The walls and streets are paved with the ballast the ships used to stay stable when they came from Europe. Once the people on the ships realized that the colonists were using the dumped ballast for building, they staring selling the stones.

Savannah is working on a park dedicated to "The Siege of Savannah" a battle during The Revolution which cost 11,000 lives. At some point they decided to bring in an x-ray system to look under the area they were tuning into this park. They found the burial site of the soldiers from the battle. Needless to say, this delayed the opening of the park a bit.

Next stop, Hilton Head. A resort island on the Atlantic coast in South Carolina.