A line out the door discouraged us from getting ice cream at Leopold's. The Savannah College of Art & Design had programmed an interesting movie next door. Encountering David Bowie in the Deep South was odd. His turn playing an inscrutable alien probably won't draw the same crowds.
A local body shop demonstrated Southern hospitality the next morning by reattaching the bumper and belly pan free of charge. We did some sightseeing in the River District and downtown, including the African American Families Monument with its sobering and controversial Maya Angelou inscription.
An Uber driver told us not to miss the fountain in Forsyth Park. Meh.
Like many before us, Bonaventure Cemetery was our final stop in Savannah. It's segregated by religion, although wreaths decorated both entrances.
We wanted to see the Bird Girl, pictured on the book jacket of Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil, a bestselling nonfiction account of a local male prostitute's murder published in the early 90s ("it's like Gone with the Wind on mescaline" claimed author John Berendt when he first pitched the story to New York magazine). Lady Chablis, a drag queen, played herself in the movie adaptation, directed by Clint Eastwood. She died of pneumonia last September at 59. Bird Girl had been moved to a museum but the Spanish moss provided the Southern gothic atmosphere we sought.
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