Will you answer?
Ready for that last fling before "fall" arrives? last beach adventure before school routine settles in? Labor Day is around the corner.
COME TO TYBEE!! The waters fine ... great in fact ...
And if you stroll to the South End ... getting there when the tide is out ... OH MAN! you have a whole 'nother experience, world to explore ... you can walk for miles, leaving the crowds around the corner ... it's breath taking ... expansive ... calm ... an adventure in itself ... just watch the tides so you don't get caught out.
While you are here in September ... Go ahead with your plans for the booty time ... yes, I mean Pirate Fest. Get your booty time at BuccaneersBooty.com I'm not talking dirty talk, I'm talking good old Pirate wear ... perhaps you'll even attract your own Captain Jack Sparrow.
Make your plans for Tybee Island, cause from where I sit, I see:
Sea, sun and whole lotta fun are in your future.
www.TybeeIsland.com
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Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
'The most beautiful town in America'
According to John Mellencamp, it is none other than Savannah!
Scouts honor ... he owns a home on Tybee as well as Daufuskie Island. In the current, Connect Savannah he shares his love of the history ... the people ...
He recorded sections of his soon to be released album "No Better Than This" in the First African Baptist Church here in Savannah. A church founded on history ... not the most flattering shot of history but old South history, slavery.
"The "Heroic Age" of George Leile marks the beginning of the church in 1773. He was ordained May 20, 1775 and enjoyed absolute freedom. He constituted the church December 1777 and thus became the first pastor of the First African Baptist Church of Savannah, Georgia.
The First African Baptist Church, a survivor of the Revolutionary War, during the over-awing hand of the hostile British, a growing body of the Reconstruction Period and a strong force during the Revolutionary changes of the 1960's for the Black community had its beginning in 1773. She was officially born May 1775.
Through the years, the First African Baptist Church has rendered service for the community on behalf of all people and is a standing monument for the role she has played.
One of the slaves baptized by George Leile was Andrew Bryan. He was permitted to preach by his slave master Johnathan Bryan. He became the spiritual leader of the church that was established by Leile. Bryan was ordained January 20, 1788 and he became the second pastor of the constituted church. He purchased the fourth site on which they worshipped on West Bryan Street. The congregation changed the name of the church in 1822 from the First Colored Church to First African Baptist Church.
On July 26, 1826, the first Black Sunday School in North America was organized in the church. The initiative was taken by the Independent Presbyterian Church.
The present sanctuary, was erected in 1859 by the members of the congregation doing the work themselves. It is rated excellent in architecture and listed in the National Register of Historic places. This is the first building constructed of brick in the State of Georgia owned by blacks. For years it was known as the "Brick Church."
The pipe organ was installed in 1888. The baptismal pool is located in the pulpit.
The church houses the first museum in any area black church. It contains archives and memorabilia that date the church back to the 18th century."
Address: 23 Montgomery Street, Savannah, GA 31401
www.theoldestblackchurch.org
Hey ... being a Mellenhead, there is no higher complement to my adopted city than to hear Mellencamp share why he loves Savannah ... Rock on John ... Rock on Savannah!
Scouts honor ... he owns a home on Tybee as well as Daufuskie Island. In the current, Connect Savannah he shares his love of the history ... the people ...
He recorded sections of his soon to be released album "No Better Than This" in the First African Baptist Church here in Savannah. A church founded on history ... not the most flattering shot of history but old South history, slavery.
"The "Heroic Age" of George Leile marks the beginning of the church in 1773. He was ordained May 20, 1775 and enjoyed absolute freedom. He constituted the church December 1777 and thus became the first pastor of the First African Baptist Church of Savannah, Georgia.
The First African Baptist Church, a survivor of the Revolutionary War, during the over-awing hand of the hostile British, a growing body of the Reconstruction Period and a strong force during the Revolutionary changes of the 1960's for the Black community had its beginning in 1773. She was officially born May 1775.
Through the years, the First African Baptist Church has rendered service for the community on behalf of all people and is a standing monument for the role she has played.
One of the slaves baptized by George Leile was Andrew Bryan. He was permitted to preach by his slave master Johnathan Bryan. He became the spiritual leader of the church that was established by Leile. Bryan was ordained January 20, 1788 and he became the second pastor of the constituted church. He purchased the fourth site on which they worshipped on West Bryan Street. The congregation changed the name of the church in 1822 from the First Colored Church to First African Baptist Church.
On July 26, 1826, the first Black Sunday School in North America was organized in the church. The initiative was taken by the Independent Presbyterian Church.
The present sanctuary, was erected in 1859 by the members of the congregation doing the work themselves. It is rated excellent in architecture and listed in the National Register of Historic places. This is the first building constructed of brick in the State of Georgia owned by blacks. For years it was known as the "Brick Church."
The pipe organ was installed in 1888. The baptismal pool is located in the pulpit.
The church houses the first museum in any area black church. It contains archives and memorabilia that date the church back to the 18th century."
Address: 23 Montgomery Street, Savannah, GA 31401
www.theoldestblackchurch.org
Hey ... being a Mellenhead, there is no higher complement to my adopted city than to hear Mellencamp share why he loves Savannah ... Rock on John ... Rock on Savannah!
Monday, August 9, 2010
Forsyth Park
This park is a true beauty ... you are surrounded by the trees ... the history of Savannah ... the charm.
Here's a history of the park from City of Savannah itself:
"The Fountain is a large, ornate, two-tiered cast-iron fountain surmounted by a classically robed female figure standing in extreme contrapposto, holding a rod. Water comes from this rod into the top basin. The top basin appears to be made of three successive rows of closely arranged flat leaves, around the base of which are arranged acanthus leaves. The pedestal which supports this top basin is surrounded by grasses, including cattails, and a wading bird with wings outspread. This pedestal and basin stand in another, larger octagonal pedestal and basin, into which the water overflows. It is more geometric and architectural than the top basin and pedestal, but it is also ornamented with leaves, in low relief. An ornamented drop pendant is just below the intersection of each side. There is also a hole in the bolection molding around the basin, located at the intersection of each side. A waterpipe protrudes from this hole. In addition, there is a similar hole located in the middle of the molding of each side. These sixteen pipes are the water outlets for this lower basin. The octagonal pedestal is ornamented with a cartouche on each of its sides. Another cartouche composes each of the eight vertical sides of the pedestal where it spreads out to support the basin. The vertical part of the pedestal is set off, top and bottom, by a molding. The lower pedestal and basin have been treated artistically as if they were a classical or Egyptian column in its divisions, ornamentation, etc. At the base of the pedestal, jutting out from every other octagonal side, are four blocks on which stood originally, four tritons (half man and half sea serpent) each with his left hand on his waist and his right hand holding a shell-horn, through which water is spouted in an arc. These tritons were moved a few feet out beyond the basin into the large pool in which the fountain stands, ahd have been replaced by four urns, which are not part of the water flow. Four spouting swans were also added to the pool; they are located farthest out, equidistant from one another, around the pool, which is surrounded by a stone or cast stone coping. The pool is surrounded by an ornamental wrought-iron fence just tall enough to keep children away from the pool and the fountain. Inside the fence is a paving of "signature bricks" which are engraved with the names of those who contributed to the fountain restoration in 1988. There is a brick walkway around the perimeter of the fence.
Forsyth Place was the first large park created in Savannah. Stylistically, the park was influenced by the urban renewal of Paris in the nineteenth century, when broad boulevards and parks were created. This greatly influenced city planning throughout the industrial world--every large city in the United States was developing large city parks beginning in the 1850's. Culturally speaking, it is not insignificant that the Forsyth Park fountain was thought to be a copy of the one in the Place de la Concorde, by Hittorff, who completed two monumental fountains in that square only a few short years before Forsyth Place was created. Bull Street was thought of as a boulevard and promenade (both French terms) and the fountain served as a focal point of a long vista, all the way from the Exchange, which was City Hall. In an economic context, the park and the fountain would not have been possible if Savannah were not experiencing economic prosperity. The 1850's were the first consistently prosperous period throughout the South, which admired and emulated the high style of the Frech Empire.
During its installation in 1858, the pool was enlarged and the fixtures re-arranged to deal with the high water pressure which caused the water to gush too vigorously. The fountain was supplied with fresh water and ran only in the afternoons. In 1860, brick paving was added around the fountain, the fountain was painted the first of many times and the first of many repairs was made. In 1868, new balls and implements were put in.
In 1960-61, the fountain was renovatd by Mr. Carsten Tiedeman in memory of his father, Judge G. W. Tiedeman, and a plaque was installed in commemoration. In 1973, vandals smashed three of the tritons, which were reported to be made of "pot metal" not cast iron. New tritons of silicone bronze were cast in 1974 by Tony Gilkes, an employee of Bailey's Forge of Savannah. One of the urns was knocked off in 1974, and several of the ornamental gloves on the light poles around the pool were smashed.
In early 1977, the figure on the fountain collapsed during an ice storm, and was reconstituted with fiberglass and resin so that it was no longer hollow. In late 1977, the Rotary Club paid for underwater lighting in the pool of the fountain. The incandescent lighting system was replaced in 2007 with a fiber optic system illuminated by metal halide lights. This system uses 1/10th of the power required by incandescent lights.
In 1988 the fountain was completely restored by Robinson Iron Works of Alexander City, Alabama, financed about half and half by the City and by private donations, much of which came from the sale of "signature bricks". In 1989, the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation gave the Park & Tree Commission and the Signature of Savannah Committee an award for an "Outstanding Restoration".
Don't just drive by ... park, walk around, the trees provide shade or you can get your vitamin D by sitting out on the grass ... it is as valuable as it's history!
Here's a history of the park from City of Savannah itself:
"The Fountain is a large, ornate, two-tiered cast-iron fountain surmounted by a classically robed female figure standing in extreme contrapposto, holding a rod. Water comes from this rod into the top basin. The top basin appears to be made of three successive rows of closely arranged flat leaves, around the base of which are arranged acanthus leaves. The pedestal which supports this top basin is surrounded by grasses, including cattails, and a wading bird with wings outspread. This pedestal and basin stand in another, larger octagonal pedestal and basin, into which the water overflows. It is more geometric and architectural than the top basin and pedestal, but it is also ornamented with leaves, in low relief. An ornamented drop pendant is just below the intersection of each side. There is also a hole in the bolection molding around the basin, located at the intersection of each side. A waterpipe protrudes from this hole. In addition, there is a similar hole located in the middle of the molding of each side. These sixteen pipes are the water outlets for this lower basin. The octagonal pedestal is ornamented with a cartouche on each of its sides. Another cartouche composes each of the eight vertical sides of the pedestal where it spreads out to support the basin. The vertical part of the pedestal is set off, top and bottom, by a molding. The lower pedestal and basin have been treated artistically as if they were a classical or Egyptian column in its divisions, ornamentation, etc. At the base of the pedestal, jutting out from every other octagonal side, are four blocks on which stood originally, four tritons (half man and half sea serpent) each with his left hand on his waist and his right hand holding a shell-horn, through which water is spouted in an arc. These tritons were moved a few feet out beyond the basin into the large pool in which the fountain stands, ahd have been replaced by four urns, which are not part of the water flow. Four spouting swans were also added to the pool; they are located farthest out, equidistant from one another, around the pool, which is surrounded by a stone or cast stone coping. The pool is surrounded by an ornamental wrought-iron fence just tall enough to keep children away from the pool and the fountain. Inside the fence is a paving of "signature bricks" which are engraved with the names of those who contributed to the fountain restoration in 1988. There is a brick walkway around the perimeter of the fence.
Forsyth Place was the first large park created in Savannah. Stylistically, the park was influenced by the urban renewal of Paris in the nineteenth century, when broad boulevards and parks were created. This greatly influenced city planning throughout the industrial world--every large city in the United States was developing large city parks beginning in the 1850's. Culturally speaking, it is not insignificant that the Forsyth Park fountain was thought to be a copy of the one in the Place de la Concorde, by Hittorff, who completed two monumental fountains in that square only a few short years before Forsyth Place was created. Bull Street was thought of as a boulevard and promenade (both French terms) and the fountain served as a focal point of a long vista, all the way from the Exchange, which was City Hall. In an economic context, the park and the fountain would not have been possible if Savannah were not experiencing economic prosperity. The 1850's were the first consistently prosperous period throughout the South, which admired and emulated the high style of the Frech Empire.
During its installation in 1858, the pool was enlarged and the fixtures re-arranged to deal with the high water pressure which caused the water to gush too vigorously. The fountain was supplied with fresh water and ran only in the afternoons. In 1860, brick paving was added around the fountain, the fountain was painted the first of many times and the first of many repairs was made. In 1868, new balls and implements were put in.
In 1960-61, the fountain was renovatd by Mr. Carsten Tiedeman in memory of his father, Judge G. W. Tiedeman, and a plaque was installed in commemoration. In 1973, vandals smashed three of the tritons, which were reported to be made of "pot metal" not cast iron. New tritons of silicone bronze were cast in 1974 by Tony Gilkes, an employee of Bailey's Forge of Savannah. One of the urns was knocked off in 1974, and several of the ornamental gloves on the light poles around the pool were smashed.
In early 1977, the figure on the fountain collapsed during an ice storm, and was reconstituted with fiberglass and resin so that it was no longer hollow. In late 1977, the Rotary Club paid for underwater lighting in the pool of the fountain. The incandescent lighting system was replaced in 2007 with a fiber optic system illuminated by metal halide lights. This system uses 1/10th of the power required by incandescent lights.
In 1988 the fountain was completely restored by Robinson Iron Works of Alexander City, Alabama, financed about half and half by the City and by private donations, much of which came from the sale of "signature bricks". In 1989, the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation gave the Park & Tree Commission and the Signature of Savannah Committee an award for an "Outstanding Restoration".
Don't just drive by ... park, walk around, the trees provide shade or you can get your vitamin D by sitting out on the grass ... it is as valuable as it's history!
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Week-ending
Another weekend is approaching and if you are headed, or already here in Savannah, have fun!
I recommend seeing a particular band, Liquid Ginger, voted best of Savannah. I'm in process of clarifying where and if they are playing this weekend. When in Savannah, musically you must try and see Liquid Ginger. They around town, as well as Tybee ... whether an acoustical show or full-power they are worth hunting down ... a treasure hunt!
If you are a true treasure seeker, hunter and like pizza, then venture down the block, a few blocks off Bay to Screaming Mimi's, on E Oglethorpe (near Habersham). It may be a hike but that can be your excuse to eat even more! They have other options than pizza but why? Ok OK, you'll enjoy the atmosphere and no matter what you have to as a main course, ask for the PBJ pizza for dessert ... yes, you saw that right, not a typo PBJ pizza, can't describe it .. trust me it is good.
Not up for pizza but want some place "Where Food is An Art"? then walk to W. Liberty Street and the SoHo South Cafe ... with a name like SoHo you know art is involved. This may not be your traditional "southern' experience ... it can be a nice break from the old south feel ... yet still experience southern charm.
For the quintessential Sunday Brunch experience ... stroll to the other end of Liberty St, and check out J Christophers. They serve breakfast and lunch menu with items 'off the griddle" and "skillet" sensations. A real yummy treat!
There are many options to really enjoy southern, and pseudo-southern cooking giving you the energy to enjoy a good walking tour.
Good eats ... good walking ... good music! The week is ending, why not Savannah?
I recommend seeing a particular band, Liquid Ginger, voted best of Savannah. I'm in process of clarifying where and if they are playing this weekend. When in Savannah, musically you must try and see Liquid Ginger. They around town, as well as Tybee ... whether an acoustical show or full-power they are worth hunting down ... a treasure hunt!
If you are a true treasure seeker, hunter and like pizza, then venture down the block, a few blocks off Bay to Screaming Mimi's, on E Oglethorpe (near Habersham). It may be a hike but that can be your excuse to eat even more! They have other options than pizza but why? Ok OK, you'll enjoy the atmosphere and no matter what you have to as a main course, ask for the PBJ pizza for dessert ... yes, you saw that right, not a typo PBJ pizza, can't describe it .. trust me it is good.
Not up for pizza but want some place "Where Food is An Art"? then walk to W. Liberty Street and the SoHo South Cafe ... with a name like SoHo you know art is involved. This may not be your traditional "southern' experience ... it can be a nice break from the old south feel ... yet still experience southern charm.
For the quintessential Sunday Brunch experience ... stroll to the other end of Liberty St, and check out J Christophers. They serve breakfast and lunch menu with items 'off the griddle" and "skillet" sensations. A real yummy treat!
There are many options to really enjoy southern, and pseudo-southern cooking giving you the energy to enjoy a good walking tour.
Good eats ... good walking ... good music! The week is ending, why not Savannah?
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