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Behind the reassuring light of a street lamp can lie unexplained
shadows.
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Even the moon’s rays can cast a certain foreboding during a late
night stroll. |
But Bonaventure Cemetery, east of Savannah, Georgia,
is most welcoming during the day.
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Bonaventure’s 160
acres has several “Oak Alleys.” |
The harmonious blend of wispy gray moss and gray-stained stones
make Bonaventure everything one envisions a cemetery should be. |
These battered bulwarks have weathered dozens of tropical storms
and hurricanes through the centuries. |
Though man may care for the trees during his life, soon the
undertaker is himself overtaken, yet the mighty oaks live on.
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These monarchs have
faithfully watched over governors, bishops, and civil war
generals; the stories that could be told! |
It was upon these
stone-cold graves that John Muir once slept 6 nights. Even back
in 1867, he found Bonaventure breathtakingly beautiful.
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It was in this “Garden
of Flowers” that
Minerva tried to work her magic for Jim Williams in Midnight in
the Garden of Good
and Evil. |
Though the Bird Girl has since been donated to the Telfair Museum
for safekeeping, there remains several ladies the keep vigilant
watch in this city of the dead. |
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