{"id":7163,"date":"2014-10-25T12:29:40","date_gmt":"2014-10-25T16:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/?p=7163"},"modified":"2014-10-25T12:35:27","modified_gmt":"2014-10-25T16:35:27","slug":"nyt-travel-section-check-out-whats-doing-in-savannah-in-1986","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2014\/10\/25\/nyt-travel-section-check-out-whats-doing-in-savannah-in-1986\/","title":{"rendered":"NYT Travel section checks out what&#8217;s doing in Savannah &#8211; in 1986"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"e26b170012445c56d240655bdd03f7bf\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: left; margin: 10px 10px 10px 0;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-5595881567027133\";\r\n\/* Medium Rectangle *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"8584504377\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>I wish I could say I found the article linked below because I was searching for some background for a City Talk column in the Savannah Morning News or for a detailed blog post here. But I ran across this travel piece about Savannah &#8212; in 1986 &#8212; when I was trying to confirm an old phone number for someone. I did a quick search of the number and &#8212; bang &#8212; I was reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1986\/12\/28\/travel\/what-s-doing-in-savanah.html\" target=\"_blank\">What&#8217;s Doing In: Savannah<\/a> by Frogmore, S.C.-based Cecily Deegan McMillan, published on December 28, 1986.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t even move to Savannah till 1995 &#8212; post-<em>Midnight<\/em>. This article is pre-<em>Midnight<\/em> but makes a prominent mention of Jim Williams (even though it obviously omits anything about the 1981 shooting of Danny Hansford):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One of the oldest and best-known of the antiques shops is run by Jim Williams (430 Whitaker Street; 912-236-6350), a dealer and renovator who has restored several homes in Savannah and the Carolina low country. He restored the main house at &#8221;Tombee,&#8221; a plantation that has become well known with the recent publication of the antebellum diaries of its owner, Thomas B. Chaplin.<\/p>\n<p>At his shop, he has a superb collection of country furniture of Georgia -sideboards, plantation tables, cabinets. The cherry, yellow pine and poplar wood of these pieces (priced from $2,500) gives the room a warm glow.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Antiques dealers Francis McNairy and Nostalgia Station (the amazing building on Stiles) also get nice mentions, and so does artist Bob Christian. Architect William Jay gets a particularly prominent spotlight early on in the piece, which mentions the Owens-Thomas House, William Scarbrough House (now the Ships of the Sea), and the Telfair Academy. The Green-Meldrim House and King-Tisdell Cottage also appear:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Green-Meldrim House on Madison Square (912-233-3845) looks, with its crenelated roof line, like the sort of place where General Sherman might have stayed &#8211; and he did. He spent the winter of 1864-65 there when he ended his march to the sea. Hours are 10 A.M. to 4 P.M. Tuesday through Saturday. Admission is $2.<\/p>\n<p>The slavery that Sherman marched to wipe out is documented in the King-Tisdell Cottage at 514 East Huntingdon Street in bills of sale and newspaper advertisements for slaves. A tiny gingerbread gem, the cottage is operated by the Savannah-Yamacraw chapter of the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History. Hours are noon to 4 P.M. Monday through Saturday. Admission is $1.50; 75 cents for children. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For all the changes in Savannah, it&#8217;s nice to read so many passages that could still be written today, almost 30 years later (although few of today&#8217;s travel writers would use such pleasantly understated prose): <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You couldn&#8217;t hurry through Savannah if you wanted to. The city&#8217;s 20 squares of parks, landscaped with palmetto trees, azaleas and native flowers and shaded by giant live oaks, are spaced throughout the heart of the city, and the single-lane streets that encircle the squares carry traffic one way only. The mansions clustered around the squares evoke a period of antebellum self-confidence and extravagance. In winter, the squares are uncrowded and it is easy to survey the city&#8217;s surpassingly lovely landscape.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you&#8217;re wondering what restaurants the NYT included in this 1986 profile, here you go: Mrs. Wilkes&#8217; Boarding House, The Crystal Beer Parlor, Elizabeth on 37th, 45 South (now 45 Bistro at The Marshall House), and The Windows at the riverfront Hyatt (where double rooms cost between $93 to $122 per night, with a special weekend rate of $65). Kind of amazing that the writer picked ones that would still be open, and apparently booming, so many years later. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/10003963_620879877993828_1154350282_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7164\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2014\/10\/25\/nyt-travel-section-check-out-whats-doing-in-savannah-in-1986\/10003963_620879877993828_1154350282_n\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/10003963_620879877993828_1154350282_n.jpg?fit=960%2C529\" data-orig-size=\"960,529\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"10003963_620879877993828_1154350282_n\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/10003963_620879877993828_1154350282_n.jpg?fit=300%2C165\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/10003963_620879877993828_1154350282_n.jpg?fit=594%2C327\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/10003963_620879877993828_1154350282_n.jpg?resize=594%2C327\" alt=\"10003963_620879877993828_1154350282_n\" width=\"594\" height=\"327\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/10003963_620879877993828_1154350282_n.jpg?w=960 960w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/10003963_620879877993828_1154350282_n.jpg?resize=300%2C165 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"e26b170012445c56d240655bdd03f7bf\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:300px;height:250px\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5595881567027133\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"4374909701\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wish I could say I found the article linked below because I was searching for some background for a City Talk column in the Savannah Morning News or for a detailed blog post here. 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