Traveling East through the South to Georgia
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Louisanna
Louisanna
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Mississippi
This is the prettiest Welcome Centers that we saw of all the states we have passed through.
I love the shadow of the bridge in the river.
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Alabama
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Georgia
"Nestled on the Georgia coast, midway between Savannah, GA, and Jacksonville, FL, lies the mainland city of Brunswick and its four beautiful barrier islands: St. Simons Island, Sea Island,Little St. Simons Island and Jekyll Island. Spanish explorers seeking gold originally descended upon the territory more than 400 years ago, only to find astonishing beauty, mild weather and a natural radiance that inspired the area’s name, the Golden Isles...
"http://www.goldenisles.com/discover-golden-isles
Sidney Lanier Bridge to St. Simon Island
For our Maryland Terriapin friends
Sign seen after crossing the bridge
The Marsh seen after crossing the bridge to Sea Island
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Welcome to Sea Island
http://www.jekyllislandhistory.com/earlyseaisland.shtml
"In the book This Happy Isle: The story of Sea Island and the Cloister, Harold H. Martin states that Addison Mizner designed the Glynn Isle Hotel "... in the Spanish motif-the low red-tile roof, the sunlit patios, the grand lounge with its high beamed ceiling and clerestory windows, all reminiscent of the dream hotel he had built in Florida. And out of sentiment perhaps, he persuaded them to name it "The Cloister."
By the 1930s Howard Coffin and the Sea Island Company would change the coastal island's name from Glynn Isle to Sea Island".
The Cloister - Sea Island
The Ruins
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The Lodge at Sea Island
The beauty of the drive up to The Lodge
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Visiting Lisa and Derek Smith
We spend 4 wonderful days with Derek and Lisa, who were the most amazing hosts.
Their home is so beautiful and Lisa's artistic creativity really shines through out.
I have loved getting to know Lisa through these past years and I cherish the time we were able to spend together on this visit just getting to know each other more and more. She graduated a few years after me from our beloved Wykeham Rise and is such a beautiful artist.
Lisa is a very special, sweet person, with whom I am so happy to have in my life!
We will never forget the evenings of good friendship, good food and good wine, the beautiful tours around Sea Island & St. Simon Island, and Derek, John is still raving about the fabulous golf at Frederica Golf Club.
John and I Thank You both so very much!
The painting over the fireplace is a beautiful painting by Lisa. And the fireplace is made
from local Sea Island Tabby. Below are views of the back of the home, Lisa's previous Marley
and the view of the marsh from the back deck.
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| Marley |
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Tabby
Tabby, made with lime, oyster shells, sand and water, was popular in the
coastal Southeast where building stones and brick-making soil'were scarce...'
Tabby in the dinning room at The Lodge.
"....The first tabby used by English-speaking people was in Charleston, SC, around 1690. When Georgia became a colony in 1733, settlers from South Carolina brought the “recipe” for this handy building material with them – building forts, chapels, lighthouses, hospitals, sugar mills, barns, breweries, homes and slave quarters. Native American shell “middens” (prehistoric heaps of discarded shells) were often the source for the quantity of shells needed to make tabby...."
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/sea-island-strata-144625350/?no-ist
http://www.goldenisles.com/lore-legends-of-golden-isles/enduring-story-of-tabby
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Day tripping in St. Simon
Birds on the Island
The Pier
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http://www.naturelssi.com/?tag=sea-turtle-nesting
"Little St. Simons Island, 123 loggerhead nests were recorded in 2013 and 53 in 2014.....
The 2015 sea turtle nesting season is off to a busy start on Little St. Simons Island and along the coast of Georgia. As of June 4 we have already found 35 sea turtle nests...."
The Beach
Little St. Simon Island
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Savannah, GA.
Bonaventure Cemetery
James Rhodes Sheldon, My Great Grandfather
Bessie Roberts Sheldon, My Great Grandmother
James Rhodes Sheldon, Jr. My Grandfather
James Rhodes Sheldon Bessie Roberts Sheldon James Rhodes Sheldon, Jr
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Family Homes
Monterey Square is a shaded alcove that welcomes visitors to pause and check out the towering monument that pays homage to General Casimir Pulaski. With the Statue of Casimir Pulaski at the center, Monterey Square is widely considered Savannah's most picturesque square. The Mercer House, is located at the corner of Ball and Wayne streets, across the street from my fathers cousins home
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My Dad's second cousin, Emma Adler.
Her home on Monterey Square & Ball Street, Savannah, Ga
We had a lovely visit with her and below are 2 more views,
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This beautiful home below was my Grandfathers home on Gaston Street,
where my father visited many times during the Summers.
My Mother, my sister~Drusie, and I visited here about 7 years ago and I have
a wonderful photo of Mom in front of the fountain.
Side view of the Gaston Street home
Below is a beautiful church where there is a stain glassed window of one of our relatives, I need to do more research on this. I have a photo from our last trip of it and will try to find it.
The other photo is just a beautiful example of a lovely Savannah home.
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