The adventures of Jen and Doug and a black cat named Mr. Knightley.
Beaufort, South Carolina, has a lovely historic downtown district that sits along the Beaufort River and features many stately mansions. We had read that many of the porches have ceilings painted “haint blue,” so we …
The Wormsloe Historic Site sits on the outer edges of Savannah. It was once the Wormsloe Plantation, the estate of one of Georgia’s founders, Noble Jones (c. 1700-1775). Though the site indicates there are the ruins …
Bonaventure Cemetery is a 160-acre rural cemetery just outside of Savannah in Thunderbolt, Georgia. It is located on the site of the former Bonaventure Plantation. The first plantation home burned to the ground in the …
Doug loves visiting authors’ homes, and so it was we found ourselves on the steps of the Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home in Savannah, Georgia. Mary Flannery O’Connor lived at this 1856 home from her birth …
The Telfair Academy in Savannah, Georgia is an art museum situated inside of an English Regency mansion. The home was designed by William Jay of Bath, England, and completed in 1819. The Telfair Academy also …
Doug will probably disagree, but I found the Florida Citrus Tower in Clermont to be completely underwhelming. It was $11 per person to ride up to the top and look out where Citrus trees used …
The Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park is located in Cross Creek, Florida, and it’s where you can tour the cracker-style home where the Pulitzer Prize-winning author lived for 25 years. The homestead is currently …
I finally found a Confederate site that Doug wouldn’t object to visiting: the site that marks where Confederate President Jefferson Davis was captured on May 10, 1865, at the end of the Civil War. Located …
In 1996, the powerful docudrama Andersonville aired on television. I remember being horrified/fascinated by it, and reading a book about it soon thereafter. Ever since I’ve wanted to visit the camp, and we were finally …
Plains, Georgia, is clearly proud to be the hometown of our 39th President, Jimmy Carter, and his wife Rosalyn. Plains had just 600 residents when Jimmy was born, so I guess producing a President (and …
