A direct descendant of Benjamin Sheftall, one of the 41 Jewish settlers who joined General Oglethorpe in the first few months of wrangling some civilized order on this Godforsaken, mosquito-ridden, humidity-cloaked bluff, Ms. Marion has a personal legacy that comes straight from the history books.
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What Would Daisy Do?
LIKE ANY great historical figure, Juliette Gordon Low’s legacy can mean different things to different people. To some, she is a revered local icon, the famous daughter of a storied […]
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Ain’t misbehavin’…much
After discovering Ola Wyeth’s depth, an intergenerational posse of audacious acolytes have founded the Women’s History Committee of Savannah to shine a light on the character, commitment and courage of our city’s forgotten females.
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Shouts from the underground
With a handwritten aesthetic and scissor-cut graphics from William Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Albion’s Voice resembled a cross between an 18th-century political pamphlet and a Grateful Dead poster.
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Around the fire with Michael W. Twitty
I don’t know if he’s the only gay, black, Jewish culinarian in the entire world, but this gent is definitely my kind of unicorn.
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What the butler did
‘If you think about it, some of the slaves probably knew the house and site more intimately than the owner.’
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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.