Last summer I found myself in one of my favorite places: Savannah, Georgia. An amazing amount of the historic fabric of this old merchant city remains. I love to wander through the past and one of the places I made sure to visit was Bonaventure Cemetery. Made famous by the book and movie “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil” the cemetery is amazingly atmospheric. With the Spanish moss, sandy lanes, and numerous impressive and disturbing memorials I could have wandered there all day. I didn’t see any ghosts but at night I’m sure memory takes foot.
I’m recycling these images for this post from a gallery I had on my Facebook account. Some recent posts by Lady Dandelion on her blog made me think of these and drag them out again.
![p1070118-470-10](https://bleubug.com/wp-content/gallery/banaventure-savannah/p1070118-470-10.jpg "\\"‘O cruel heart,’ she changed her tone,
Is this the end to be left alone,
To live forgotten, and die forlorn?’\\"")
![p1070172-524-26](https://bleubug.com/wp-content/gallery/banaventure-savannah/p1070172-524-26.jpg "Johnny Mercer wrote many a famous tune such as \\"Moon River\\" and \\"Hooray For Hollywood\\". He lived in Savannah and is one of the famous people buried in Bonaventure.
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Unmarked marker at the gate.")
![p1070174-526-27](https://bleubug.com/wp-content/gallery/banaventure-savannah/p1070174-526-27.jpg "Johnny Mercer\'s grave is on the right. He also wrote \\"Jeepers, Creepers!\\" whose title, if not lyrics, fits this place.")
![p1070180-532-29](https://bleubug.com/wp-content/gallery/banaventure-savannah/p1070180-532-29.jpg "Mary M. Kuch who died at a little over 1 year old in 1884. \\"Not dead but sleeping\\".")
![p1070187-539-31](https://bleubug.com/wp-content/gallery/banaventure-savannah/p1070187-539-31.jpg "Johanne Schultz who died in 1876 at age 25. Her epitaph:
\\"When we at death must part
How keen, how deep the pain
But we shall still be joined in heart
And hope to meet again\\"")
![p1070218-570-43](https://bleubug.com/wp-content/gallery/banaventure-savannah/p1070218-570-43.jpg "A somber reminder:
\\"Here lieth
a third of the ashes of 344
cremated sacred souls,
victims of the Nazis,
inlcuding the remains of
Schmul
son of Y\'cheel Szcerkowski
who was killed on the third
of Nison 5705-Mar. 17, 1945
Brought here from Alem,
Hanover, Germany\\"")
![p1070223-575-45](https://bleubug.com/wp-content/gallery/banaventure-savannah/p1070223-575-45.jpg "\\"O you who turn the wheel and look to windward,
Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.\\"")