Fun Old-Fashioned Family Christmas, 2025: Savannah, Part The First

Savannah is just an half hour's drive from Tybee, so we spent a couple days or more exploring its abundant historical and cultural treasures. We'd all been there before, numerous times in some cases, and so, again, the documentation is not what it might have been. Among the visits/meals/tours not pictured are the nice Indian resto for a lunch, Leopold's, of course, the Mercer/Williams House (no fotos!), several interesting bookstores and other shoppes, and more. Search "Savannah" in the box to the right for pix from other visits. It's a neat place, the old town.

The early 19th century Telfair Mansion, now home of the Telfair Academy

Peppino Mangravite, Prohibition, 1935; numerous New Dealers portrayed, not least Harry Hopkins

Gaston Balande, The Port of Rochelle, 1949

One of the museum's several galleries

Henry Cleenwerke, Bonavenure Cemetery, 1860

Julian Story, The Black Prince at Crecy, 1888

John Singer Sargeant, Henry Augustus Cram, 1893;
New York attorney of note

Silvia Shaw Judson, The Bird Girl, 1936; one of four known casts;
the Savannah version, aka Little Wendy, resided on a family plot
at Bonaventure Cemetery until more recently moved to the Telfair;
muy famoso as a book cover for Midnight in the Garden of Good
and Evil

Another gallery: the "sculptures" are largely plaster-cast from a former
director's trip to Europe; nice work...

Childe Hassam, Avenue of the Allies, 1917; Hassam was right
up there with Mary Cassatt in bringing Impressionism to
Americans; and vice versa...why the US has nearly as many
Impressionist paintings as Europe...

Hassam's Brooklyn Bridge in Winter, 1904; we think Monet might
have approved

Alfred Smith, Bordeaux, View from the Bridge, Winter Day, 1904

Frederick Carl Frieseke, The Garden Umbrella, 1910; painted at
Giverny; was a neighbor of Monet's

It's an artsy town, even the streetside utility boxes

In one of the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD)
buildings

Why it's such an artsy place...SCAD has taken over the
city center...beautifully...

Bookstore cat