The adventures of Jen and Doug and a black cat named Mr. Knightley.
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 …
William Scarbrough (1776-1838) was a sea merchant and, as of 1818, the president of the Savannah Steamship Company. He was one of the principal owners of the SS Savannah; in 1819 it was the first …
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 …
Unless you were a Girl Scout, you may not know Juliette Gordon Low, but we learned she was a very interesting women. We visited the home of her early life, the Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace …
Having already visited the Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace, we needed to complete the circle and go see where that dimwitted blighter husband of hers came from: the Andrew Low House Museum, also in Savannah, Georgia. …
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 …
I was a bit underwhelmed by the Owens-Thomas House & Slave Quarters in historic Savannah, Georgia, especially in comparison to some of the more elegant homes in the area. The home, finished in 1819, is …
There are museums around the world devoted to all kinds of unusual topics, and you can count on us visiting them whenever they pop up near our itinerary. And so when we learned about a …
