Dreams Of The Immortal City Savannah (ISBN: 9789388125956)
Dreams of the Immortal Citi Savannah is a collection of creative nonfiction on cultural arts, family life, and history in Savannah, Georgia. Present stock is available from the publisher, Cyberwit.net, and on Amazon.
The stories in the book range from texts addressing cultural displacement and global warming to those examining the demands of caregiving, the divide between advances in technology and stagnation in social justice, human trafficking/slavery, futurism, family dynamics, the cultural arts, and prophetic inclinations all framed by life unfolding in the famed city of Savannah, Georgia (USA). Titles of the resulting stories are as follows:
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Cities of Lights and Shadows and Dreams
A Brazilian Thanksgiving in Georgia
Trees Down Everywhere
Dreams of the Immortal City
The Bridge and the Monument: A Tale of Two Legacies
Riding the Bus with Man-Boy and Shaniquananda: and Then Not
Monet, Vann, and Gibran at the Telfair Museum of Art
Savannah by the Twenty-first Century Numbers
Appendix A: 2016 Statement on the Eugene Talmadge Memorial Bridge
Appendix B: 2017 Statement on the Eugene Talmadge Memorial Bridge
Appendix C: Savannah Community Marks 100th Anniversary of a Legacy of Knowledge
Appendix D: A Legacy Less Traveled
Appendix E: A Place Called Hitch Village and the Federal Economic Stimulus Package
Looking at the above table of contents with appendices it becomes easy enough to see why Dreams of the Immortal City Savannah is described with this tagline: "A memoir of what happens when the heart and soul of a historic city meet the art and purpose of a 21st-century advocate for compassion and social justice."