10/27/2019

Weekly Update 10/27/2019

I think I have my Medicare figured out – again. Who knows? Aetna has discontinued offering the plan I was enrolled in. They will be offering a similar plan, and I’ve enrolled in that after talking to a representative. She told me that the government has mandated changes that has forced Aetna to update policies. Go, Feds! Don’t make it easier, make it more difficult! But I think I’m still covered, I hope so.

Two Lectures this week. The Victorian Society had a speaker on how the French influenced styles of dress, architecture and customs in 19^th Century America. It was interesting. And TLC invited Luciana Spacher, the City Archivist to present a slide show of buildings that have been lost in Savannah through demolition. When that talk was finished, I walked a bit through Ardsley Park because some of the homes there have electorate Halloween decorations.

Saturday morning there was a tour at Catholic Cemetery. They have never offered tours before, so I really wanted to see this. It was very nicely done. The tour took almost 2 hours, and there were many “residents” who were there to tell us their stories. The cemetery was established in 1853, about the same time as BC, and for the same reasons: Colonial Park Cemetery had run out of room and new burial grounds needed to be formed outside the city. Many Irish immigrants who came to Savannah, and the US in the mid- 1800s are buried there. There are four Bishops and many priests and nuns in the cemetery. Last week, I attended 3 days of talks about cemeteries, this week, I toured one, do I ever stop having a fun?

Bishop Garland, who founded Catholic Cemetery, and the burials of the four Bishops, along with many priests

The mandated monument to confederate dead, found in every cemetery in the South

Sunday, Connie and I went out to Huckapoos Sports Bar on Tybee instead of going to Coach's. Connie knows everyone there, and I spent more time being introduced to her friends and shaking hands that I did watching the game. But the that was ok, given how it ended.