The Georgia Agrirama

After surviving Florida's harsh winter, Marlon and his mom, Angie, headed to Missouri where Doug was completing a grueling tax season and Angie would be spending the summer.

On their way, they visited The Georgia Agrirama, Georgia's Museum of Agriculture and Historic Village in Tifton, Georgia. Luckily, the parking lot included full hookup rv sites.

Enjoy the pictures of The Georgia Agrirama.

This is the Tift House where the namesake of the town of Tifton lived.

Inside the Tift house...

The doctor's office

A doctor's unlucky patient could be made into a handy paperweight

How about an exam?

The easy old days of washing up before surgery

The street signs of the 1800's

Century-old cotton

This is where the witches were put on trial

Oops, wrong century. It's the Masonic Lodge.

An old machine

Angie is tired of the motorhome and waits for the train.

A cabin

Another mystery machine

19th century horse or mule (whatever)

19th century soda fountain inside...

a 19th century drug store.

Here sat Marlon

The saw mill

Wisteria

A wicked looking bell

Little wooden schoolhouse

Little wooden schoolhouse classroom complete with teacher

Bird houses

Angie's first tractor

Angie's second tractor

Angie's third tractor but first John Deere

An old grocery car

What goes around comes around...jeans of the 1800's look like jeans of the 2010's

Pedra is done with Georgia's Agrirama and ready to hit the road.

For more detailed information about The Georgia Agrirama, visit their website here .

For more pictures of Marlon's visit, click here .

To be continued...

Fort Pulaski & Cindigenous-Local Short Films of Savannah

After the trolley tour, we headed over to Fort Pulaski National Monument. Fort Pulaski was constructed of about 25 million bricks all transported by golf carts like the one seen below!

Standing on top of the fort walls which survived the Battle of Fort Pulaski in 1862. The Fort even features spiral staircases!

The Tybee Island Lighthouse can be seen in the distance.

An enemy ship is spotted close by.

The POW quarters feature these bunk beds which accommodate a total of 8 POW's each...4 on top and 4 on bottom.

The purpose of this blindage was to create a bomb or splinter proof shield to enclose the rear of encasements.

This large area inside Fort Pulaski is widely believed to be the location of the invention of the game of baseball. The game was initially called rounders. Of course, the cannon would not be on the playing field...

Leaving Fort Pulaski, you cross the moat. The moat ranges from 30 to 48 feet wide and is generally 8 feet deep.

One of Fort Pulaski's hiking trails leads you to the water's edge.

Fort Pulaski is featured in our Savannah highlight video below.
After leaving the Fort, we headed to Telfair Square's Jepson Center for the Arts for a screening of short films, an event called Cindigenous.

Before the screening, Doug tried on some native dress.

The films screened were either filmed locally, produced locally, or somehow have ties to Savannah.

The films included "The Street Cleaner", which told the story of disappearing women of Savannah; the stop-motion animated short "The Madness of Being"; and a film entitled "And Then She Was Gone" featuring Savannah resident Diana Scarwid.

After the short films, it was time for Marlon to take a short rest on a long bench.

The squares of Savannah provide many opportunities for breathtaking nighttime pictures.

A view up the steps down to River Street.

For more pictures of these parts of our Savannah tour, go to http://public.fotki.com/Marlonfleenor/1/2008/may/savannah-ga-day-2/ pictures 100-174.

To be continued...

Oglethorpe Trolley Tour of Savannah Pt. 2

Next, our trolley tour came upon this photo shoot.

Memorize this house...you may recognize it if you ever see the photoshoot or whatever it is they were doing there today.

Memorize this statue...you may come across it someday while visiting Savannah.

Built in 1873 by Samuel Pugh Hamilton, later the President of the Brush Electric Light & Power Company, The Hamilton Mansion was the first residence in Savannah to have electricity. Dr. Francis Turner then purchased the house in 1915, alternately living in it and offering the house for boarding.

Sold to a local church in 1965, the house was saved by the Historic Savannah Association in the late 1960's, as it was to be destroyed in favor of a playground. The Hamilton-Turner House was converted to a bed and breakfast in 1997.

This is the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist located in Lafayette Square. The congregation's original church was located in Liberty Square...of which now only a small portion remains. As the congregation grew, there were no additional lots available in Liberty Square, so the church built elsewhere.

Classic police cars sit outside the Savannah Chatham Police Deparment. The building is still in use...the cars are not.

Another historic mansion you might see while wandering the streets of Savannah.

Fountains are abundant in the squares of Savannah. We believe this one was located in Oglethorpe Square.

It was now time to conquer the steep cobble-stoned hill which led down to River Street.

On the River Front in Morrell Park, you will find the Waving Girl Statue. The statue depicts Florence Margaret Martus, famous for waving at all vessels entering and leaving Savannah harbor for forty-four years.

A view of Savannah's City Market area...City Market is famous for its art, dining, history, shopping and entertainment.

For more pictures of our trolley tour, go to http://public.fotki.com/Marlonfleenor/1/2008/may/savannah-ga-day-2/ pictures 68-99.

For our video highlighting Savannah, click below.
To be continued...