Day 3:
Savannah – Friday April 14th,
Good Friday
Another day
in Savannah, recovering from jet-lag. With
Good Friday not being recognised as a public holiday (such is the US
determination to separate church and state), all the shops were open.
We ventured
into the centre of the city, walking the length of Bull St (after John
Bull?). This took us through and around
Savannah’s famous twenty-two squares.
These are delightful patches of lawn, gardens, seats and always at least
one statue honouring a figure from the War of Independence or the Civil War.
One has a
most beautiful fountain and another, what they call an outdoor interactive xylophone
(it is actually a glockenspiel) which delights the children as they make music.
We walked
past the home of Juliette Gordon Lowe, founder of the Girl Scouts and past the
place that previously held the seat of ‘Forrest Gump’ of movie fame. Close by
is the steeple made famous in the movie; the steeple of The First Presbyterian
Church around which fluttered the feather that landed at Forrest’s feet.
The centre
of Savannah is crammed with wonderful architecture, much of it now preserved
through the National Register of Historic Places.
Mickve
Israel Synagogue, 1878 
Scottish
Rite (Masonic) Temple, 1913
One such
historic building now houses the Savannah College of Art and Design. It was the first of what are now dozens of
buildings restored by the college. From
small beginnings, the college is now one of the predominant places to study any
kind of artistic design, creative writing and even equestrian studies in the
USA and in Hong Kong. The college has many campuses dotted throughout Savannah and its students comprise much of the workforce at its cafes, restaurants and the like.
The walk
back to the car took us past the delightful homes in the ‘Victorian’ district.
‘Toward the end of the 1800s the beautiful
Victorian District was born due to the overcrowding of the Historic District.
Highly detailed Victorian and Queen Anne Victorian homes, constructed between
1870 and 1910, were built in a 50-block division.’
It is very interesting to me that more than one
hundred years after America gained its independence from Britain in the
American War of Independence (1775-1783), architectural styles were still named
for the British monarch, Queen Victoria.
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