The 66th annual Junior League Thrift Sale promises to be a wonderland of good deals and epic scores, boasting aisles of gently-used clothes, lovely furniture, in-demand toys, barely-read books and adorable tsotchkes
Jessica Leigh Lebos
Community Editor Jessica Leigh Lebos has been writing about interesting people, vexing issues and anything involving free food for more than 20 years. She introduces herself at cocktail parties as southern by marriage.
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Get sick at the Davenport House
Set in various parts of the refined American Federal-style domicile on Columbia Square, the hour-long show chronicles the horrific illness that killed one out of five Savannah citizens and provides a fascinating and germane context of social norms, race relations, media propaganda and medical inefficacy.
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Savannah’s sustainability headquarters
Some of the cut timber could end up as a fence or paneling for a kitchen remodel across town; other chunks may find their way across the room to Southern Pine Co.’s furniture building studio. One thing is for sure, however: Every piece of wood stacked inside this building originally started out as something else.
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The Veep came to town and I didn’t even get a T-shirt
Thing is, Biden gave almost exactly the same speech earlier that morning in South Carolina, which has its own harbor deepening enterprise brewing at the Port of Charleston.
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Battleship (almost) down
Battle Voices is a collection of personal accounts and recently-acquired treasures that uncovers new depth of the events of Sept. 11, 1943 aboard the USS Savannah (CL-42), the light cruiser named for the Hostess City.
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Victims finding closure
Several hundred people traveled from near and far for Victims Visitors’ Day, a day-long program that gives victims of violent crime and their families an opportunity to discuss the parole status of the offenders that have irrevocably affected their lives.
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The once and future reign of E. Shaver
“The Internet has transformed reading, yes. But there will always be people who want to touch a book,” assures Esther Shaver, who has indulged bibliophiles from near and far for the past 38 years from her cozy shop on Madison Square. “Books are not going to go away.”
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Skyway: When the bridge came down
His life destroyed, pilot John Lerro found work teaching at a maritime college and as a counselor; he eventually died of complications from multiple sclerosis.
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#Hashtags for hunger
Now through October 31, photographing and tagging your food can have philanthropic reach for diners at The Sparetime, where Executive Chef James Levens has created a signature meal for the James Beard Foundation’s Taste of America Local Dish Challenge.
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In defense of the Liberal Arts
True, a degree in English won’t teach you to build a bridge, treat leukemia or bring down a Dementor. But the idea is that you could go on to pursue such things in an effective and compassionate way with a foundation based in the Big Ideas and a well-crafted set of directions.
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This spud’s for you
For around six bucks, you can choose from standard Russet or orange sweet, and pile it high with all the usual fixin’s — and plenty of unusual ones, too.
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College Issue: Beyond the blue blazer
At some point, be it for a job interview or meeting your girlfriend’s parents, you are going to have to clean up your act. And we’re not talking about shaving off the soulpatch: You’re going to need a good suit.