{"id":14248,"date":"2016-10-09T16:06:39","date_gmt":"2016-10-09T16:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/?p=14248"},"modified":"2016-10-09T16:06:39","modified_gmt":"2016-10-09T16:06:39","slug":"life-island-times-picnic-in-the-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/life-island-times-picnic-in-the-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Life & Island Times: Picnic in the Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nPerfect weather, patriotic music and plenty of BYO food and drink drew tens of thousands to a picnic at Forsyth Park this past Sunday. As with all things now, this annual event had a theme \u2013 \u201cUnder the Stars and Stripes.\u201d Consequently, many picnickers sported red, white and blue to enjoy music, competed for prizes and in general displayed a whole lot of patriotism.<\/p>\n

This was Marlow\u2019s second picnic since moving to Savannah two months ago. The first was on the sunset lit shore beach of Tybee Island three weeks prior.<\/p>\n

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The event featured local band, choral and orchestral students at the bandshell along with a performance by the Savannah Philharmonic. Attendees also had the opportunity to enter the \u201cPicnic Contest\u201d by designing a picnic sites, inspired by the event\u2019s theme of patriotism.<\/p>\n

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Established and impromptu social aid and pleasure club organizations were in abundant evidence with their tents and displays trying to snatch the first place prize in the themed site competition. Ladies of Distinction, Mint Julip Queens, and Coastal Heritage Society were just three of the competitors.<\/p>\n

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The Heritage Society interpretation was a nod to 18th century America with two tables replicating Savannah\u2019s earlier days in the late 1700. The group\u2019s display featured a solider in revolutionary garb, colonial armory and a table setting straight out of Tondee\u2019s Tavern in 1779.<\/p>\n

Other contestants took a more modern approach to representing the symbolic red, white and blue.<\/p>\n

The Mint Julep Queens set up a tent titled \u201cFrom Sea to Shining Sea\u201d complete with a stage and American Flag backdrop. The women of Savannah nonprofit social group sported mint green dress, crowns and torches and handed out patriotic temporary tattoos, while others posed with a U.S.A. sign.<\/p>\n

First Place was won by a group entitled Chuck Sasser and friends for their site entitled \u201cThe 70s,\u201d complete with disco paraphernalia, big hair, extremely bad fashion choices (patriotic leisure suits anybody?), and fake bags of marijuana hanging out of participants\u2019 pockets.<\/p>\n

This picnic was held in the real, recognizable America, but one whose landscape and psycho-geography were dramatically different from Marlow\u2019s former island location. He and his W were noshing in gothicly charming Northeast Georgia. The playing of Dixie by the Savannah Philharmonic Orchestra caused Marlow to pause. Perhaps it\u2019s time to let float away some symbolic balloons into the sky regarding this.<\/p>\n

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