EVENTS
These are some of the current and upcoming programs featured at our members' sites. The list is updated regularly, so please check back often.
ON-GOING EVENTS AND EXHIBITS
Permanent Exhibit - Georgia Southern Museum - Natural History of the Coastal Plain - The museum's newly renovated Natural History of the Coastal Plain exhibit takes you back 100 million years ago, to a time when mosasaurs prowled the ocean and dinosaurs ruled the land. Each display will bring you closer to the present day. Along the way you will learn about the dramatic environmental changes in Georgia and how they affected the animals that once lived here. Featured is Georgiacetus vogtlensis, a 40 million-year-old whale, whose pelvic bones establish a missing link between land mammals and whales. Georgiacetis is the most important fossil ever found in the state of Georgia. For further information, please phone (912) 681-5444.
July 13, August 10 & September 14, 2008 -  Bonaventure Historical Society - Second Sunday Tours at Bonaventure - 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Tours of the historic section of the cemetery led by members of the society. Comfortable walking shoes are recommended. There is no charge for this event. For more information, please call 897-3313.
UPCOMING EVENTS AND EXHIBITS
July 11 & 25, August 8 & 22, 2008 - Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace - Civil War Journeys - The Gordons like many other families, had relatives fighting on both sides during the Civil War. This presentation consists of a tour of the historic Wayne-Gordon House and a discussion of the role of the Gordon family in the Civil War as well as in Savannah's history. The cost is $15.00 per person; space on the tours is limited. For further information or to make reservations, please call 912-233-4501.
July 18, August 1 & 15, 2008 - Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace - The Spirits Are Willing: A Look at Spiritualism in the Victorian Period - The Victorian era was rife with movements, revivals and philosophical exploration. The Gordons and other prominent Victorians were fascinated with Spiritualism. Learn about this fascinating belief through correspondence of the Gordon family and through literary documents of the period. The cost is $15.00 per person; space on the tours is limited. For further information or to make reservations, please call 912-233-4501.
July 24, 2008 - Georgia Heritage Society - A Tale of Two Georgias - At 6pm on Thursday, July 24th at the Savannah History Museum theater (303 MLK, Jr. Blvd., inside the same building as the Visitors Information Center), the Coastal Heritage Society will premier the new documentary film, A Tale of Two Georgias.  The 25-minute made-for-TV film profiles both the Confederate ironclad warship CSS Georgia and the newly re-launched nuclear submarine USS Georgia. 

Filmmaker and Coastal Heritage Society Public Relations Director Michael Jordan completed a masters thesis on the CSS Georgia in 2006, and recently went to sea aboard the submarine USS Georgia.  The film profiles the surprising similarities between the two very different ships and their crews.  Interestingly, both ships went to sea with the help of Georgia’s women.  In the 1860s, Ladies Gunboat Associations throughout the state raised the money to build the Confederate ironclad Georgia.  Over the 2000s, Georgia Navy League member Sheila McNeil spearheaded a lobbying effort that spared the USS Georgia—bound for the post-Cold War scrapheap—from destruction, and saw it converted into a new guided missile sub.

For more information on the premier, please contact the Coastal Heritage Society at (912) 651-3673 and leave a message.  Please specify that you are calling about the Tale of Two Georgias premier, and leave us a way to contact you.

This page was last updated: 07/01/2008