{"id":23689,"date":"2022-04-10T18:25:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-10T18:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/?p=23689"},"modified":"2022-04-18T18:30:48","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T18:30:48","slug":"life-island-times-emmet-park-a-palm-sunday-stroll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/life-island-times-emmet-park-a-palm-sunday-stroll\/","title":{"rendered":"Life & Island Times: Emmet Park — A Palm Sunday Stroll"},"content":{"rendered":"

W and her mom had finished their Palm Sunday devotions and were raring to eat at a small place along Bay Street much beloved by locals — B Matthews. With tables scarce for brunch, we decided to spend our hour-wait strolling the park across the street.<\/p>\n

Overlooking the Savannah River, Emmet Park was renamed in 1902 after an Irish orator who never visited, let alone lived here. Before that it was an unadorned chinaberry then-live oak treed promenade originally called \u201cThe Strand,\u201d and then Irish Green in the mid to late 1800s. W and I had never walked its complete length and breadth. We were delighted with eastern end\u2019s century-plus-old greenery and more recent vintage monument and memorial additions.<\/p>\n

Below are but a few of today\u2019s highlights from the eastern half of the park:<\/p>\n

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\nSavannah River peak from Emmet Park<\/p>\n

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\nSavannah\u2019s harbor light erected in 1858<\/p>\n

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\nSpring 2022\u2019s stages of live oak tree rebirth from left to right along East Bay Street:
\nbrowning leaves about to fall, newly light green leafed trees, darker green fully re-leafed live oaks<\/p>\n

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\nCentury plus old Irish cast iron fence adjacent to the Savannah harbor light<\/p>\n

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\nDr. Noble Wimberly Jones
\nPhysician and resident of Savannah Georgia
\nAmerican Revolutionary War veteran and patriot
\nGeorgia Delegate to Continental Congress<\/p>\n

Not included due to file size are photos of Civil war cannon, monuments to the waves of Irish settlers of Savannah, USMC Korean War vets, Vietnam and first Gulf war vets, and memorials to the Georgia Hussars and the Chatham Artillery.<\/p>\n

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\n2016 view of the live oak trees that line the sidewalk between the park and East Bay Street<\/p>\n

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W and her mom had finished their Palm Sunday devotions and were raring to eat at a small place along Bay Street much beloved by locals — B Matthews. With tables scarce for brunch, we decided to spend our hour-wait strolling the park across the street. Overlooking the Savannah River, Emmet Park was renamed in […]<\/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-23689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-island-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23689","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=23689"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23698,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23689\/revisions\/23698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}