Reading and Roaming
EATING SOUTHERN You will not go hungry in Savannah. Portions are generous to very large and shrimp and grits appear on almost every menu. Other local favorites are fried green tomatoes, pimento cheese, ham and biscuits, and crab meat. Here’s where we dined. Husk We had lunch in their upstairs dining room which was largely empty and pleasingly …
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FRIENDSHIP The experts say, and I’m inclined to agree, that the older we get, the more we appreciate and value long-term friendships. I now have close friends I have known for more than forty years and some more than fifty. We recently had lunch with my girlhood friend and her husband. I’ve known J. since we were in …
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FLORIDA FROLIC: ST. AUGUSTINE In our quest to become better acquainted with our home state, we’ve been taking short trips to cities not that far from us. For the last two years, we and good friends made a December trip to Winter Park to visit the museums, cruise on the lake, and sample the local eateries. This year, …
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ENDLESS SUMMER This is so far a strange November. We’ve changed the clocks and it gets dark early, but the sun is still hot during the day and the mercury scrapes 90. Overnight it doesn’t get really cool (still low 70’s) and the days are sticky humid. Usually by now, the local paper has had at least one …
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