{"id":14095,"date":"2016-09-24T18:10:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-24T18:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/?p=14095"},"modified":"2016-09-26T21:16:26","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T21:16:26","slug":"life-island-times-savannah-whoo-ees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/life-island-times-savannah-whoo-ees\/","title":{"rendered":"Life & Island Times: Savannah Whoo-ee\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"

Savannah Whoo-ee\u2019s<\/p>\n

Marlow\u2019s Coastal Empire<\/p>\n

They hadn’t heard train whistles for thirty, maybe forty, years. Their new home-town hadn’t either until about six years ago, when globalization brought back regular whoo-ee’s to the residents. When Savannah became the Saudi Arabian-like sea-railhead for eco-friendly, sustainable, wooden fuel pellets for European Union electric power plants, train traffic on its dilapidated rails zoomed.<\/p>\n

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Up to 192 whoo-ee\u2019s per day now bother certain residents. The Wall Street Journal reported that Noble L. Boykin, whose law firm is on East 38th Street, said he and other attorneys have to take \u201ctrain breaks\u201d during depositions. He has to step into a closet for phone calls. He also lives near the tracks, so he can\u2019t escape them – even at 5 a.m. \u201cEverybody hates it.\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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Marlow and W are not so inconvenienced.<\/p>\n

Perhaps it was due to something they had read long ago or heard their mommas say that out of sight was out of mind. Now each time they stop for a train or cross empty rails, they recall long ago trips that passed shadowy lanes, winding streams, moonbeams shining down on lonely small town stations, and sleeper cabin pull down shades. With each whistle and trestle beam, old dreams reappear through their minds\u2019 cracks. They look at the tracks going forward and those going back to what and who knows who.<\/p>\n

Well, their hood doesn’t shake like the B&O, but sometimes it wobbles like the L&N.<\/p>\n

Savannah\u2019s become a railroad hot-spot, trains not scared to shout where they’ve been.<\/p>\n

A long ago Savannah songwriter lived a few short blocks away from Marlow’s place during the halcyon days of US railroads. More than a few of this Mercer boy\u2019s songs feature railway imagery and motifs.<\/p>\n

Maybe Savannah\u2018s now reconnecting with her blues in the night when \u201cthe rain’s a-fallin and (she) hears trains a-callin \u2018whoo-ee!\u2019 A-whooee-ah-whooee ol’ clickety-clack’s a-echoin’ back th’ blues in the night.\u201d<\/p>\n

They have noticed the evening breezes now and then start the trees to crying. Sometimes the moon hides its light when the trees get these blues in the night.<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2016 From My Isle Seat\/Johnny Mercer
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Savannah Whoo-ee\u2019s Marlow\u2019s Coastal Empire They hadn’t heard train whistles for thirty, maybe forty, years. Their new home-town hadn’t either until about six years ago, when globalization brought back regular whoo-ee’s to the residents. When Savannah became the Saudi Arabian-like sea-railhead for eco-friendly, sustainable, wooden fuel pellets for European Union electric power plants, train traffic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-island-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14095"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14100,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14095\/revisions\/14100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}