THIS EVERYDAY LIFE

Savannah Squares A quiet Sunday afternoon is the perfect time to visit and relax in one of Savannah’s Squares. Savannah during normal times is a relaxed and unhurried location but on a lazy wonderful Sunday afternoon it really slows. Especially in its Historical District (there are 21). Seldom is heard a car horn and the many dogs that wander with their masters believe it not do not bark. Guess even dogs realize a good thing when it is presented. Don’t know where these many tourists come from but they communicate in hushed whispers and even River St.(the City’s answer to Atl’s Underground Atlanta) is experiencing a reverent mood. No boisterous drunks and even the kids being dragged from one place to the next go along meekly. The Squares’ plant life is experiencing an early Spring this year. Azaleas and Camellias are in bloom and the Castor plants are really deep green. Lawns in the squares are turning deep green and are a delight for tired bad feet to trod upon. Naked or shoed. Perfect for the kids that attend the Savannah College of Art Design to just lay back and chill without the rigors of academia. Blankets spread out, picnic lunches present and the vendor that offers shaved ices is doing quite well thank you. Visitors and residents alike thank you General Sherman for not laying torch to the squares for on a lazy Sunday afternoon during false Spring days it is a great place to be. Here is how Wikipedia describes the Squares-Savannah is a city located in the state of Georgia, United States. It is the largest city in and county seat of Chatham County. Savannah was established in 1733 and was the first colonial and state capital of Georgia. [3] It is known as America's first planned city and attracts millions of visitors, who enjoy the city's architecture and historic buildings: the birthplace of Juliette Gordon Low (founder of the Girl Scouts of the United States of America), the Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences (one of the South's first public museums), the First African Baptist Church (one of the oldest black Baptist congregations in the United States), Temple Mickve Israel (the third-oldest synagogue in America), and the Central of Georgia Railway roundhouse complex (the oldest standing antebellum rail facility in America). [3][4] Today, Savannah's downtown area is one of the largest National Historic Landmark Districts in the United States (designated by the U.S. government in 1966). [3][A] I am quite certain if the Wiki’s editors were with me they would not have been so scholarly with their definitions. .