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    The very design of this exhibition reveals the creative skills of the curator
    1A cutaway model of a Confederate ironclad gunshipAnother ironclad cutawayAnother cutaway model1The difficulties of shooting through the glass can't hide the modellers skillAnother Civil War 'ironclad' gunboatCloseup of previous imageOverall perspective of the previous modelAn early beam engine powering an early side-paddle steamerA daylight view from my window of a set of factory stacks? (see next photo)1Those chimney stacks at night. The Plant Riverside district.1Lamb chops made in Georgia! Who'd've guessed?Savannah at dusk, from the Thompson rooftop bar. Can you see those red 'factory stacks'?An old colonial regulation permits bars to pour 'travellers' you can walk around withNZ kitcheneers please take note for when I visit 😄Ditto...My historic hotel in the Savannah historical district

    Aug 6-8: Tatts, tiny ships, & touring

    10 de agosto, Estados Unidos ⋅ 🌧 24 °C

    I met a creative native of Savannah on the train; a talented museum curator, historian, and a published woman of letters (whose father had been a railroad locomotive engineer 😃). She generously invited me to a presentation she was giving at the Maritime Museum on the nautical influence on tattooing and some of the artists around Savannah who do it. We heard a description of the artists, the work they did and how they got started, and the nautical 'language' of sailor's tattoos (many of these illustrations have a shared meaning among seafarers). We also received a guided tour of the museum that ignited my passion for detail when I saw the brilliance and beauty of the models on display and read the history of each vessel - most of them having been early passenger vessels that plied the east coast or were part of Civil War and pre-war merchant marine fleets and navies.

    There's also a few images that I hope will serve to depict the Savannah that I've enjoyed so much these past few days.    Leia mais

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