Second Day in Savannah, GA

We started the day with a stroll down to the Savannah River. All those stones in the street and the walls in the background were originally used as ballast in the ships coming over to pick up cotton:

Here's Jill standing in Savannah's famous (I guess) river-front vortex where if you speak in a certain direction it sounds weird. Kind of silly, actually:

One of the many horse-drawn carriages running around town:

Jill in front of the statue of William Jasper at Madison Square. During the Revolutionary War Jasper had been successful at one battle rallying the troops by picking up the flag and rushing the Brits. But at the Battle of Savannah, he tried the same thing again and got shot down for his troubles:

One of the many beautiful 19th century mansions all over Savannah. Note the grass on the steps up to the front porch!

Lunch (just some regular sandwiches):

The Colonial Park Cemetery, established in 1750 by the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), and closed about a century later:

Parts of the cemetery were vandalized by Union soldiers after Sherman's march to the sea (which ended in Savannah), so many of the tombstones knocked over and defaced were picked up and attached to a brick wall:

Grave of Button Gwinnett, a signer of the Declaration of Independence:

Picture of Jill, just to prove we were really there:

OK, so the other big movie filmed in Savannah fairly recently was "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil," which was about art collector/home restorer Jim Williams' murder trial. Of course, the movie was about much more than just that. Anyway, here's the Mercer-Williams house. (The Mercer who built the house was a Confederate general and great grandfather of songwriter Johnny Mercer--"Moon River," "Jeepers Creepers," "Fools Rush In," etc., etc.):

Here's Jill out back, waiting for our Mercer-Williams house tour to start:

Interior:

More interior shots (thanks Google Images!):

Well we couldn't leave Savannah without stopping at the famous Leopold's Ice Cream, founded in 1919. With that movie marquee it sure looks like we went back in time!