Historic Bonaventure Cemetery
Down in Savannah we picked up Images of America: Historic Bonaventure Cemetery, by Amie Marie Wilson and Mandi Dale Johnson. This is the cemetery that was the central image of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. It's a very Romantic place, and well worth the visit. We spent a couple of hours there, and could happily have spent a couple of days.
We sat on the bench that is Conrad Aiken's marker, and saw the nearby bench that is Johnny Mercer's footmarker. There are Civil War era figures, and many others from later on, and the most interesting parts seem to be the Victorian statuary areas. We have such monuments in the Homewood Cemetery at the end of my street, and the Allegheny Cemetery, but not in these numbers. And not surrounded by live oak trees, draped in Spanish moss.
This book is informative, and sticks mostly to archive photographs from the Georgia Historical Society. Some of these go back to the very early days of photography. The weakness of this volume is that the reproductions of many of the pictures are only of medium quality. That reduces the impact considerably, and doesn't quite give you the feeling that you can really tell what it's like to be there.
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We sat on the bench that is Conrad Aiken's marker, and saw the nearby bench that is Johnny Mercer's footmarker. There are Civil War era figures, and many others from later on, and the most interesting parts seem to be the Victorian statuary areas. We have such monuments in the Homewood Cemetery at the end of my street, and the Allegheny Cemetery, but not in these numbers. And not surrounded by live oak trees, draped in Spanish moss.
This book is informative, and sticks mostly to archive photographs from the Georgia Historical Society. Some of these go back to the very early days of photography. The weakness of this volume is that the reproductions of many of the pictures are only of medium quality. That reduces the impact considerably, and doesn't quite give you the feeling that you can really tell what it's like to be there.
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