Savannah’s Talmadge Bridge is a beautiful piece of engineering whose moniker honors racial injustice
Orlando Montoya
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A small farmer with a big heart
‘People look down on us but we got one of the best jobs there is’
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‘We’re going to maintain our humanity’
YOU CAN look the other way. You can turn off the TV. But it won’t stop reality. Humanity is experiencing its greatest refugee crisis since WWII, with conflict and persecution forcing millions to flee […]
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Peggy Riggins: Sounding the alarm on coal ash
I’M HERE to tell you that the good guys sometimes win. The bad guys are on a roll right now. But sometimes they lose. Or in this case they back down. Just […]
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‘No bombing, no rockets, no death’
SYRIAN REFUGEE and new Savannah neighbor Naji Abousaleh remembers safer times in Aleppo, where he lived most of his 67 years and taught English. But safe wasn’t happy. “Because you’re afraid,” he says. […]
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Laiken Love: In demand and in control
HAS ANY Savannah singer come as far, and as fast, as Laiken Love? Barely five years after taking voice lessons and starting her own band and two years after she says she “turned […]
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Soccer + entertainment = South Georgia Tormenta
If you don’t live near an MLS (first tier) team, USL is the next best thing. The guys in South Georgia Tormenta are hungry for that kind of life.
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Remembering victims of German U-boat attacks off the Georgia coast, 75 years later
At a shady burial plot at Brunswick’s Palmetto Cemetery, I help retired merchant seaman Michael Higgins slowly step over a few inches of brick wall that surrounds the graves.
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‘A Catholic school on a Protestant island’
WHEN A school falls in the woods, does it make a sound? Or, to ask the question a little differently, when a school fails, when a church mission fails, when […]
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Andrew Gill: Amazing musician and lifelong ‘river rat’
“It’s hard to keep a band together,” Gill says. “I think that’s the hardest thing in music.” He gets wistful about those times. He was in late teens, early 20’s then. Who wouldn’t?
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Savannah-Chatham Off-Road Racing Enthusiasts celebrate 30 years
WHEN I walk around Lake Mayer sometimes, I find myself asking, “What the hell is that noise?” Every now and then, the tranquility of ducks and sailboats is interrupted by what […]
