Trip To Savannah, Georgia

Our yearly jaunt with 5 other couples just ended this week.
We all rented a house on Tybee Island outside of Savannah for four days.
The house was built the end of the 1900 century around 1893 and owned now by a family who uses it to hold reunions and parties.  We rented it from them.
It was amazing to go into this home with all these large floor to ceiling rooms.  I am showing you a photo of what was told to us to be a water heated radiator that kept the food warm in the dining room.
We would walk to the beach about a block away but the weather was cold so jackets or coats was the fashion of the day. 
Some of us went to the Island to do some boutique style stores, while others went to a Fort or to the Lighthouse.  Had dinner one night at Uncle Bubba's (Paula Deen's brothers resturant) and since Shrimp and Grits is one of their special meals, I tried it.  It was so rich and creamy, not at all what I have had before, and I got sick that night.  Too rich for my taste.
This home is near the lighthouse and a fort so the homes were built to house the military genteel.They called it Officers Row and ours was Number 9.
I always wanted to buy an old home like that, maybe a bit smaller but on the same design.  Heat rises you know, that heater was going like crazy. I can imagine the electric bill. It was obvious that maintenance on it was a big job.  Even the clawfoot bathtub, that I always loved, was hard to get in and out of.  So any thoughts of doing that went flying out the painted shut windows. Give me a one story home now.  Oh! Thats what I got.

The home was haunted.   I have a picture of the staircase that went up three floors and you can see a shadow of a figure.  Heard footsteps when everyone was asleep  Yes we did, my girlfriend and I.  Fun, really.  Thinking of maybe doing a story about ghosts now.

Talented American Indians

When I passed through on my way home to Tennessee from Asheville, N.C. we decided to go over the mountains and through Cherokee, N. C.   I have been there many times and although it is really being built up it still remains a tourist area, complete with Casino that is run by the Cherokee Indians.  A beautiful building.

Big hotels are going up but it still looks shabby to me. Indians are performing on little outside stages while tourist pay or give them a tip to sit in one and watch them dance. It kind of sadden me.
The museum there is very lovely showing all the wares of original indians who lived in N.C.
 However, I did notice these bears that were throughout the area of Cherokee, each one painted different.  This one I took a picture of because it was so American Indian.