Just like the film, visitors go through night guard training and then get to meet the characters that they learn about in the museum
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Davenport House reboots popular Yellow Fever living history program
It details a credibly-documented account of what happened, which might be more frightful than graveyard walks and jumpscares
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Lafayette visits Savannah, Revolutionary War soldiers march again as part of celebrations
Illuminating Lafayette’s sojourn with fascinating local context, the interactive tour takes place Friday and Saturday nights through October.
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Paging Dr. Lavinder: Savannah’s first female doctor at the Davenport House
BEING A DOCTOR during Savannah’s yellow fever epidemic was a tough gig. Antibiotics wouldn’t be invented for another century, leeches were considered the most effective “cure” in your medicine bag, […]
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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.