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Patriotic Picnic In The Park

Carnies Rule

carnival

The theme for 2016 Savannah Picnic in The Park was  “Under the Stars and Stripes”, and attendees wore their patriotic best. The Savannah Philharmonic played classical music selections including John Phillip Sousa’s “Stars and Stripes Forever” and “The William Tell Overture”.

Kids at Picnic in The Park

Once the sun went down the weather was perfect.  My friends Brian and Jeannine set up a carnival for their tent and set up games for kids to play.  The games were a duck pond, a ring toss and a ping pong throw.  For winning the games, the kids got tickets. Then they could redeem the tickets for prizes.  I was a carnie for the evening, and the kids had a blast!  I actually heard a kid say that they had never had a box of Cracker Jacks which was one of the prizes.  Wow!

Picnic in the Park is a great local event. However, since people bring food and drink for their family and friends, there’s no public food options for tourists or people who just happen to wonder by Forsyth Park. It would have been great if a couple food truck vendors were around.  Maybe next year.

 

 

 

 

 

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Savannah’s Sizzling With Fun Events

Balloons

 

It has been a hot summer. I am ready for the fall weather, but in Savannah, I will settle for 80-degree weather. There are cool things happening here in Savannah in September and October.

Sept 3:  The Savannah Craft Beer Fest

Sept 12: Edna Lewis dinner featuring some of the best chefs in the South.  The dinner will be at The Grey.

Sept 13 – Sept 18: Tibetan Monks are returning to the Jepson Center

Sept 20: Crash Comedy at Sentient Bean. I will be performing!

October 2: Picnic in the Park at Forsyth Park. This year’s theme is “Under The Stars and Stripes”.  4PM. FREE

October 13-15: GeekEnd, a tech and entrepreneur festival. I went last year and it was great.

October 29:  FoodDay at Daffin Park.  I volunteer at Food Day last year.

 

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Savannah Picnic In The Park

Hooray For Hollywood

Linda Dancing

What’s the big deal about a picnic in the park? It’s a big thing when it is the annual Picnic In The Park when the Savannah Philharmonic plays. Annually, Savannahians convene at Forsyth Park with decorated tents,bringing picnic baskets and dressing up based on a theme. This year’s theme was “Hooray for Hollywood”. BTW, I learned that the song was actually written by Savannah native Johnny Mercer.

My friend Linda invited me to hang out at the tent where her friends, Brian and Jeanine who had created this wonderful tent which was like the outside of the theater where the Oscars happen. They had a red carpet, step and repeat and a concession stand with popcorn. There were even movie posters of the two most famous movies that were filmed in Savannah, “Forrest Gump” and “Midnight In The Garden of Good and Evil“.

Brian is a chef at a hotel here in Savannah.  He made chicken teriyaki skewers, stuffed mushroom, cantaloupe soup,  and  fingerling potato salad. He also brought as well as a fruit tray, a crudites tray and a cheese plate. With Jeanine’s attention to detail and Brian’s delicious food, they came in second place Yay!

I walked around a lot taking photos. It was one of the best people watching I have experienced in the four months I have lived here.

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Be An Ally Any Day and Everyday

Savannah Pride

 

The crowd at Savannah Pride

Being an LGBT ally means more than being OK with gay marriage because you love “Modern Family”. Being an ally means you support LGBT issues and you speak out against LGBT injustice. Being an ally means being consistent. Today I volunteered at Savannah Pride, but I won’t wait until next Pride weekend to support LGBT.

When it comes to LGBT in popular culture and media, it is still mostly focused on the Gay White Male. That needs to change. A few years ago, I got to speak at a conference, Salon LGBTQ, and I spoke about how to be an ally in the social media streams. At the conference, I got a chance to re-introduce myself Riese Bernard, one of the founders of Autostraddle, one of the most popular and influential lesbian blogs.

“Orange is The New Black” has brought attention to lesbian women of color and transgender women, but there’s still a dearth of Black, Asian and Latino gay men. I bet most people have yet to see “Noah’s Arc” or even “Paris is Burning” which is the source of all current slang today. No shade. 😉

Anyway, I want to see more like people who look like me in the forefront of the LGBT movement.  Just like not all “skin folk is kinfolk”, not everyone who looks like an ally is actually one. #CaitlynWhatsGood

 

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Welcome To Gnatty Savannah

Before Instagram, there were photo blogs. I’m taking it back to old school and posting photos I take here in Savannah, Georgia. This photo is from Forsyth Park which is like the Piedmont Park in Atlanta or Central Park in New York.