Even if you know little of Savannah’s history, architecture, art, or culture, by the time your travel vacation concludes, you will be “in the know,” and refreshed. The Savannah National Historic Landmark District offers a villagely vibe with small scale, historic art collections, modern art and historic museums dotting the environs near the lush green squares.
“My God, even the shadows in Savannah are green,” writes artist Robert Leedy when painting Mercer House on Monterey Square.
“But let us note that art – even on an abstract level – has never been confined to an “idea”; art has always been the ‘realized’ expression of equilibrium.” – Mondrian, c. 1930. Less [-]
Green Savannah
Savannah's subtropical climate keeps the city's many gardens thick with green foliage and keeps residents under umbrellas during frequent, but short rainfalls.
Greene Square - Greene Square is named in honor of General Nathaniel Greene, second in command to George Washington in the Revolutionary War. The city’s lush green square that James Edward Oglethorpe laid out offer enduring green foliages and are called “those green jewels in Savannah's crown” (Insider's Guide to Savannah GA), the comfortable green spaces that seem to maintain the city's unhurried pace. Savannah's Leafy Green Squares (The New York Times).
Coastal Georgia Greenway Trail
Fried green tomatoes specialties are found at Mrs. Wilkes Boarding House, Vic’s on the River, Clary’s, Matthew’s Bakery, and Lady & Sons. A specialty at Olde Pink House is Fried Green Tomato with Sweet Corn Sauce AND Beef Tenderloin with Green Peppercorn Sauce. Beer Battered Fried Green Tomatoes with Sriracha Sauce is featured on the menu at the New South Café (located at the Mighty Eighth Museum in Pooler GA). Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, starring Jessica Tandy and Kathy Bates, was filmed in Juliette, Georgia.
Delia Green is buried at Laurel Grave Cemetery South, in Savannah. In Bob Dylan’s World Gone Wrong album (1993) liner notes, Dylan does offer a vivid interpretation of the mystery that turns out to be historically on the mark: “[T]he song has no middle range, comes whipping around the comer, seems to be about counterfeit loyalty.” That accounting, even with its tentative note, is truer by far to what happened than the most widely listened-to “Delia” to date, by Johnny Cash. “Delia’s Gone” is the overpowering first track on Cash’s album American Recordings, which, when released in 1994, won Cash a new following among music fans of the rap-and-grunge generation. Cash sings in the first person as an unnamed, calculating killer who, dealt some unmentioned hurt that is almost certainly infidelity, has tracked the “low-down, triflin’ ” -- Koerner, Ray & Glover's version of "Deliah's Gone"
Forsyth Park is 30 acres of intense green, city center town green enjoyed for picnics, weddings special events and sports.
The Ellis Project documents the destruction of Savannah's City Market garage and the return of green, public space in the form of the lost Ellis Square.
Ubiquitous green beer, green donuts and city fountains run emerald green water during St. Patrick’s Day (March 17) celebrations annually. Revelers in green, and cocktails and grits are dyed to match.
Romantic Days and Nights in Savannah, by Georgia R. Byrd, features "Love Turns Green" is a two day, one night celebration of Saint Patrick's Day, when the river runs green.
John Berendt describes the "luxuriant green garden" [Savannah, Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil]
Jonathan Green’s art work is featured in the Beach Institute Museum in Savannah.
Green-Meldrim House
The Green-Meldrim House (1853) is one of the earliest Gothic revival houses in Georgia and is distinguished...
Catharine and Nathanael Greene became owners of Mulberry Grove, a plantation estate near Savannah.
Film Industry in Georgia
Georgia has been the location for hundreds of feature films, commercials, and music videos, along with...
Tidal Marshes
Almost a third of the Atlantic Coast's tidal salt marshes are located in Georgia's Lower Coastal Plain...
Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace Garden
During the 1950s, Clermont Lee designed gardens for several of Savannah's most prominent historic homes,...
Folk Arts and Crafts: Overview
One of Georgia's great riches is its heritage of folk art, but different meanings for that term have...
Savannah River
The Savannah River, one of Georgia's longest and largest waterways, defines most of the boundary between...
Foodways: Overview
Foodways, a comparatively recent term, is the study of the procurement, preparation, and consumption...
Jasper Greens (organized in 1842). The Irish Jasper Greens Fall, 1861. This company of Georgian Militia, wore a distinctive green trimmed uniform, shown as they appeared on Garrison at Fort Pulaski in 1861 ** Jasper Spring (1868) is located on Augusta Ave. at I-516 in Savannah, Ga. St. Patrick’s Day features the Jasper Green Ceremony. The Jasper Monument is located in Madison Square.
