Smokey Robinson headlines the upcoming All That Jazz Concert and Ball in January 2022.Ĭartersville will further cement its reputation as “Museum City” when the 65,000-square-foot Savoy Automobile Museum opens in December.
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It takes an omnivorous, eclectic approach to Black history and culture: Founded in 1981 in a former warehouse/nightclub in downtown Macon, the museum boasts exhibitions on the creations of Black inventors and on Macon’s centrality to American music-this is, after all, Little Richard’s birthplace-as well as lecture series and annual events, including jazz and blues fests. It’s named for Harriet, of course, but the Tubman Museum of African American Art + History + Culture is not only about one of America’s great heroes. Opened in 2018 on the backside of the island, this short, winding trail is meant to represent the journey of a young victim of the slave trade, from his capture in a village in central Africa to the auction in which he was sold signs along the way tell the story, expressing both the violent tragedy of the American slave trade and the resilience of those who endured it.
The smugglers were indicted though never convicted the people they kidnapped were sold to plantations on Jekyll and beyond. The United States banned the importation of enslaved people in 1807, but the transatlantic trade continued illegally until the eve of the Civil War: The Wanderer, one of the last known slave ships, came ashore at Jekyll Island in 1858 bearing nearly 500 captives. Prepare to get messy! 11 North Main Street, Clayton Located in the back is an art studio, where owner Rabun Martin teaches unique painting classes, helping students use their fingers and a palette knife on wooden boards. Part home goods and furniture store and part art studio, Lulu & Tully Mercantile features handmade work from local artists-including paintings, jewelry, and pottery. Law, a shady cypress grove, and the usual Savannah smattering of Southern magnolias and azaleas whose neon-bright blooms frame the elegant old tombstones in early spring. Laurel Grove North is more ornate, though you’ve got to have the stomach for a lot of Confederate iconography attractions in the pastoral, deeply peaceful southern part include the resting place of civil rights leader W.W. The northern and southern parts were established as two distinct cemeteries in 1850, for white and Black Savannahians respectively today, they’re separated by the I-16 feeder ramp. But Laurel Grove, on the other side of town, is just as historic, nearly as pretty, and a whole lot quieter. Tip: It’s only open Wednesday through Sunday.Įverybody goes to Savannah’s Bonaventure-whose fine reputation is completely deserved. Enjoy live music every Thursday, with a different band each week. The patio is dog friendly, and you may get a visit from the “house dogs,” Freya and Bleu, or even the house cat, Thibodaux, named after a dish on the menu. Guests can enjoy freshly baked French bread, oysters, gumbo, and po’boys and can finish with a slice of praline cheesecake. Descendants of Pin Point’s founders still live in the surrounding neighborhood-just about a 15-minute drive from downtown Savannah.īoasting an expansive outdoor patio with some covered seating, Clarkesville’s Bleu Canoe serves Cajun American fare and an impressive list of New Orleans–style cocktails. Today, the old Varn buildings have been beautifully restored and converted into this museum, which tells the specific story of Pin Point as well as the broader story of Gullah Geechee life on the Georgia coast-and offers sweeping views of the waving salt marsh, Moon River, and Skidaway Island just beyond.
Varn & Son Oyster and Crab Factory, where most residents worked. The village of Pin Point (aka Pinpoint) remained a vibrant Black fishing community throughout the 20th century, centered around the A.S. Following the Civil War, a group of formerly enslaved people founded a small community on Ossabaw Island-which moved to the mainland after a series of hurricanes devastated the coast in the 1890s.
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