No visit to Savannah is complete without seeing the Bonaventure Cemetery, featured, sort of, in the best-seller Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Say what you will about the decline of reading, literacy, books, etc., but Savannah's tourism stats skyrocketed after publication of the book and later the movie, in the 90s. Something about "Southern Gothic." The "Bird Girl" statue has been removed from the cemetery, for her own protection, and is now in one of the museums. Another visit.
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| Entrance |
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Interestingly does not specifically prohibit hoodoo
ceremonies between 11:30PM and 12:00AM |
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Having seen enough of Johnny Mercer, we decided to
hunt for the poet Conrad Aiken, whose monument, I've
read, is simply a bench on which one is supposed to
sit and sip a martini |
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Bonaventure is mostly all arranged in these neat, and sizeable
family plots |
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| Thus |
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| Street scene |
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| Rather possessive, I thought |
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| Costco evidently was in the monument business some years ago... |
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| Spooky tree |
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| Many obelisks |
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Running water on every plot--something Pere Lachaise
doesn't have |
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| Art Deco! |
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| Surprisingly, to us, many, many German surnames |
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| Longer view |
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| New arrival |
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| On stilts...must have been expecting a hurricane |
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| Nice statuary all around |
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| Gothic!!! |
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So the Wright family bought this plot in 1852, but has let it go
unused for 170 years...a really poor investment? Or maybe they
moved to Dayton, Ohio? |
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| Jogging girl |
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Something neither Pere Lachaise nor Milan's Cimetero Monumentale
has: tourist carts! we never found Aiken's site, which was just
as well since I was fresh out of gin; but I bet if we'd engaged one of
these guides, we'd have gotten to it easily; maybe they provide the gin |
1 comment:
My first visit to Pere Lachaise was with you and Vicki!
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