CANDIDATE Larry Lower used the word “inclusive” at least five or six times in my 30 minute conversation with him. And when Lower, a current school board member who was […]
Orlando Montoya
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Irish Jews: A closer look at a lesser-known aspect of the Irish experience
Georgia Southern’s Dr. Howard Keeley hopes to get the message into our consciousness with a new exhibit at Savannah’s Congregation Mickve Israel.
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‘We tell them, “You’re not alone”‘
NEXT WEEK, Savannah’s Irish will carry on a tradition that goes back 194 years. The St. Patrick’s Day parade and the formal Irish societies that go along with it were all […]
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A reckoning on Cumberland Island
SOME TIME this spring, coastal residents could wake up to news of the biggest deal on Cumberland Island since the deal that created the National Seashore there in the 1970s. Right now, behind the scenes, […]
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Telling the whole story at the Davenport House Museum
A FEW weeks ago, about 35 docents from the Isaiah Davenport House, one of our city’s most-visited historic sites, sat down for a workshop in the spirit of continuing education. What […]
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Tiny houses, big benefits
A new initiative from Cindy Kelley and the Chatham-Savannah Authority for the Homeless aims for 75 affordable homes, most of them 128 square feet, on 3.5 acres of land off Wheaton Street. Two earlier site locations failed because of community opposition.
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Consolidation Fever: Have you caught it?
This might be a good time for some civic education. It might not be obvious to some residents, but Chatham County is the basic unit of government in Chatham County.
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The Georgia lineman is still on the line
Lineworkers perform exhausting work in extreme weather. And, of course, they work around lines carrying enough power to kill people.
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Armstrong: More than a name
I suspect the name will become an obscure bit of trivia on signs and stationary. Name death by Regents decree. That is, unless people continue to use the name.
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Diane Cantor’s novel deals with agency and young sexuality
‘Sometimes we all have a desire to assert ourselves,’ Cantor says of her character, Mavis.’We don’t want to be pushed around.’
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Classically Kurt Ollmann
He’ll soon record an album, with pianist Mary Dibbern, of French art songs, often compared to German lieder. The two forms are something of a specialty for him.
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Josephine Johnson: Ukulele Poet
Jack Johnson couldn’t have spoken truer words than Savannah’s own Josephine Johnson. “Things seem to be happier on the ukulele,” she says. The ukulele brings us “Banana Pancakes,” Israel Kamakawiwo’ole […]