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Kenneth. 18. Savannah, Georgia. Historic Preservation.
l-e-v: Map of Charleston, showing the approaches by land and water, the Rebel batteries and lines of fire, roads, inlets, principal plantations, etc., from Harper’s Weekly, March 28, 1863
intracoastal-wanderings: 83/366 Old Charleston. Charleston, SC is the perfect setting for a vintage photograph.
Boone Hall
intracoastal-wanderings: Rooftops in the South of Broad neighborhood
fycharleston: Gravestone from the Circular Congregation Church graveyard150 Meeting Street  The skull with wings is an example of the Memento Mori (“remember the dead” or “remember your mortality”) style that is ubiquitous in Charleston graveyards.
"Growing up, I absorbed the Southern obsession with place, and place can seem to me somehow an extension of the self. If I am made of red clay and black river water and white sand and moss, that seems natural to me."
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  Frances Mayes, Under the Tuscan Sun
magnoliamerryweather: Savannah, Georgia (via sxse)