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Greeting Flannery at 99
The Southern gothic ghosts might’ve preferred a gloomy day rumbling with distant thunder and misery, but they would have been deeply disappointed. For…
Mar 27
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Jessica Leigh Lebos
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Are We In For A Local Water War?
I’m not much of a hellfire and brimstone type, but I firmly believe that wasting water will end you up in hell. Of all the ways humanity has advanced…
Mar 20
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Jessica Leigh Lebos
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Looking for Luck in All the Right Places: How to St. Patrick’s Day in Savannah (2024)
*Between traveling across the country and back, starting a new grown-up job, freaking out over being a speaker at TEDx Savannah (buy yer tickets now…
Mar 13
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Jessica Leigh Lebos
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Throwing Down with the Mah Jongg Mavens
I could hear the clackety-clack-clack before I even entered the room. Pushing open the heavy wooden doors of the synagogue social hall, I saw the source…
Mar 6
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Jessica Leigh Lebos
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February 2024
Hell Yes to The Dress!
I knew it the minute I tried it on: A tea length strapless number in cream satin overlaid in lace, bearing the label of Jessica McClintock, the epitome…
Feb 28
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A Belated Blessing for Taylor Square
I’ve been around long enough to believe Sistah Patt Gunn when she says that it never, ever rains on Gullah Geechee events. But I didn’t know conjuring…
Feb 21
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Jessica Leigh Lebos
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I Can Buy Myself Flowers (But I’d Rather Steal Them)
It’s peak season for sneaking around Savannah’s yards, which means every surface of my house is covered in glass dishes displaying petals of riotous…
Feb 14
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Kamala Came. She Saw. Can She and Joe Conquer Chatham County Again?
She seemed shorter than she looks on TV, and I couldn’t tell if she was wearing sneakers. But the first female Vice President of the United States…
Feb 7
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January 2024
Forget Blush and Bashful, This Southern Wedding Went Bold and Beautiful
If you’re going for theatrics at your wedding, you can’t do better than a chihuahua ringbearer. Such delights and surprises were surely expected at the…
Jan 31
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Jessica Leigh Lebos
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Hang On Little Camellia
Last week’s freeze already seems like a distant reverie, a wintry angel that passed through to deliver a delicious chilly kiss and leave us agape with…
Jan 24
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Cherish That Savannah Patina
I know I keep clanging this bell like an old washerwoman calling the family home for supper, but the Savannah I used to know is swirling down the drain…
Jan 17
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Can Sapelo Be Saved?
Once upon a time, if you were any kind of 20th-century capitalist worth the weight of your ill-gotten gains, you wintered on an island off the Georgia…
Jan 10
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