We arrived in historic Savannah, Georgia, last night. What a change from Atlanta! Savannah is a charming city with a lively and lovely historic downtown. It felt good to walk around, with lots of people out and about enjoying a pleasant evening. Atlanta is… totally different.
Today we went to Bonaventure cemetery. Why? The place is famous from the book and movie Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Midnight, voodoo and cemeteries… The “garden” was here in Bonaventure.
It was a spooky sort of day for it, with a bit of overcast adding atmosphere, and the wind blowing the moss that hangs heavily from the trees. Unlike many manicured cemeteries, this former plantation is a wild and beautiful place, with beautiful statuary scattered among large trees draped with moss.
John Muir (famed naturalist and founder of the Sierra Club) was taken with Bonaventure, spending 5 days and nights here. 5 nights in a cemetery? He said
The grand old forest graveyard, so impressive that almost any sensible person would choose to dwell here with the dead rather than with the lazy, disorderly living.”
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No matter what John Muir said, I’m thinking that for our women’s trip we’ll pass on the graveyard, and stay in a hotel instead. 
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1 So there we were… in the garden of good and evil | Gardening Tips and Products // Apr 7, 2008 at 4:49 pm
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