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- Publisher
- University of North Carolina Press
- Copyright
- Copyright © Center for the Study of the American South.
- ISSN
- 1534-1488
Abstract
Essa y .................... Taming the Wild Side of Bonaventure Tourism and the Contested Southern Landscape by William D. Bryan John Muir marveled at Bonaventure’s landscape, and declared it “one of the most impressive assemblages of animal and plant creatures I ever met ”—high praise from the future founder of the Sierra Club. Bonaventure Cemetery, by Krissa Corbett Cavouras, February 27, 2012, Flickr.com, CC BY- NC- ND 2.0. 49 n 1869, twenty- nine-y ear- old John Muir left his home in India- napolis and began to walk south. With Florida as his goal, Muir botanized his way through Kentucky, Tennessee, North Caro- lina, and Georgia, before stopping in Savannah. There, he ran I out of money and had to spend almost a week “camping among the tombs” in Bonaventure Cemetery, a private cemetery just a few miles outside the city. Muir marveled at Bonaventure’s landscape, and declared it “one of the most impressive assemblages of animal and plant creatures I ever met”—high praise from the future founder of the Sierra Club. Although intended for the dead, the cemetery was a living ecosystem replete with Spanish moss, bald eagles, “large oc fl ks of butterflies, [and] all kinds of happy insects,”
Journal
Southern Cultures – University of North Carolina Press
Published: Jul 20, 2017