Mercer House - home of musican Johnny Mercer (deceased) and Jim Williams (also deceased). A very popular visitor site in Savannah.	This is probably the weekly entry y’all have been waiting for. I personally cannot remember all that were “revealed” during the Savannah town tour I went on with my dad during our first visit here. I would have had to take notes if I wanted to remember all of the interesting facts (and fiction?) while reading John Brenedt’s Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. (Trust me on this one – the book’s far better than the movie, nevermind that Clint Eastwood was the film director).
The fourth state to be accepted as part of the United States, Georgia is nicknamed The Peach State. Savannah was once in a state of dismay that the Queen of England dubbed the town as “a beautiful woman with a dirty face.” A restoration society was quickly set up in the long and agonizing process to “restore” the beauty in the buildings within Savannah’s historic district. Many of the homes have wrought iron fences and gates; some of them so intricately decorated like a piece of art. The colors of the houses and buildings come in such a variety and have some kind of harmonious effect. On the window shutters on a few of the homes here, a shade of blue called Haint Blue is used – in the old days; it was believed that the shade could ward off evil spirits.	The gazebo where many wedding ceremonies are held.
An array of homes along Gaston Street	Savannah has been filmed in many movies, many unbeknownst to us. “Forrest Gump”, “The General’s Daughter”, and of course, “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil,” just to name a few.
Like I said in the first entry, the town of Savannah has 20-something squares. The squares were invented by a historical figure (sorry, I’m bad with remembering historical names!) so we would be forced to slow down and “smell the roses,” (enjoy the leisurely drive and the views) instead of speeding down a straight road towards your destination. Each of the squares is different – some of them have statues, one has a gazebo, another a fountain and a couple have interesting pieces of bronze sculptures. I write this entry in Pulaski Square, where Johnny Mercer’s house is right behind me (yes, the house where Jim Williams resided in The Garden of Good and Evil). And sad to say, the center of this square is under construction so I don’t even know what it is – or what it’s supposed to be.	Talk about colors! A pink home also on Gaston Street
I took this picture because I liked the house (no particular reason!)	There is a gothic Jewish temple with the structure and steeple so high above I wasn’t able to capture it all on camera. Many tiny shops and cafes can be found around the corner (however, being a graduate college student I haven’t quite been able to visit many of them). On River Street, a statue of a woman waving a piece of cloth, standing tall beside her trusty dog, waves over the ripples of the Savannah River. The woman, nicknamed “The Waving Girl,” would wave at shops docking in or simply passing by every day. Legend has it that she was waiting for a lost love to come back from sea. She waved every day for more than thirty years, River Street does not have a paved street – instead it’s made of cobblestone, which makes driving a little more … fun.
There is so much more to mention about Savannah, but I’ll save it for another time…	This house reminds me of a patchwork quilt - there are colored stained glass squares bordering the windows.
You see many of these onion-shaped steeples in homes and buildings of Savannah.	Hmmm....
Interesting....	This house has pretty cool colors, don't you think? Not that I'd want to live there or anything...

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