Savannah, Georgia. This is a beautiful historic city founded in 1733 by British General James Oglethorpe where there would be freedom of religion. There were three prohibitions in the founding charter; no lawyers, no hard liquor and no Catholics! The British were at odds with the Pope at the time. The original city plan was laid out on four squares. Each square was centred around a large public park surrounded by trust lots to the east and west for public buildings like a church and tything lots to the north and south for residences. The whole thing was 3 or 4 square blocks. Eventually 24 of these squares were knitted together to form the historic old city, an area about 1 1/2 square miles. As you walk through the old city you come to a beautiful park in the centre of one of these squares every few blocks. Very pretty and very green. We went to Mrs. Wilkes Restaurant, specializing in southern food where they seat you together with 14 people at a communal table. They brought 24 dishes (evidence below) so there is a lot of passin' around the table. There is a line up around the block to get in, This is a very beautiful city that was spared during Sherman's March to the Sea. Union General Sherman burned down most cities as he marched east at the end of the civil war. This city had millions of dollars of cotton stored in dockside warehouses stuck behind the Union naval blockade. The cotton was actually owned by northern financiers who pleaded with Lincoln not to burn it. Lincoln asked Sherman to spare the city. Sherman arrived in Savannah in December of 1864 and wired the president: "I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah, with 150 heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about 25,000 bales of cotton."

Mrs. Wilkes Restaurant

24 dishes

Canopy of live oak 

Savannah cat

Spanish moss

Lots of synagogues in Savannah.....Shalom Y'all food festival

Antebellum Home

The house from the movie Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Halloween....and check out the vertical moss on the risers

Brunswick Stew, a southern delicacy.....very good