Today we went to the Seabrook Village site south of Savannah. Unlike the exclusive community of Seabrook Island in Charleston, this is the site of a post-civil war Gullah community. So, the exact opposite of Seabrook Island.
When we arrived, we were the only car in the parking lot of the visitor's center, which was pretty much a small house with peeling paint and a stray cat in the front yard. Hmm..... I guess not a normal tourist destination?
We walked through the house, which was half-office half museum and well well under 1000 square feet. After this, we went to a 1900s pre-integration black schoolhouse. A dreary wooden shack, it looked like a 3rd-world schoolhouse. It really showed just how much more struggling for freedom blacks had beyond the Emancipation Proclamation.
Due to lack of funding, not much more was at the site so we left. We walking along the touristy riverwalk, saw some multi-million dollar yachts and speedboats (Owned by Hedge-fund CEOs or Ponzi Schemists?) and then went to dinner. We ate at the Pirate's House, which is one of the oldest taverns in North America, where Robert Lewis Stevenson was inspired to write Treasure Island, and where many a poor unsuspecting seamen was Shanghai'd (kidnapped to work at sea). There are even a few secret tunnels and holding vaults in the restaurant for this purpose!
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