Destination: Savannah
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Ever since I read John Berendt’s Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, I have wanted to visit this historic city, so when a friend decided to celebrate her birthday with a girls’ weekend there of touring, shopping and eating, I was thrilled to join in. Only a two-hour direct flight from New York, Savannah exceeded my high expectations on all three (touring, shopping, eating) fronts. Savannah is able to honor its storied past without any museum mustiness, thanks to the incredible energy being breathed into it by the burgeoning Savannah College of Art and Design, which, with its 7,500 art students, has made the city arguably the most exciting creative university scene in the country.
What appealed to me most was how utterly unto itself Savannah is. John Berendt wrote early in Midnight, “I suspected that in Savannah I had stumbled on a rare vestige of the Old South. It seemed to me that Savannah was in some respects as remote as Pitcairn Island, that tiny rock in the middle of the Pacific where the descendants of the mutineers of the H.M.S. Bounty had lived in inbred isolation since the 18th century.”
Bottom line: Savannah is a magical otherworld where the pace is slow, history holds sway, and you can eat and shop extraordinarily well. Imagine equal measures of stopped time (some houses have a distinct Grey Gardens atmosphere) and community-art vibe.
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