On this week’s episode of Georgia Traveler, we’re “Coasting Along the Atlanticâ€, exploring U.S. 17 from Savannah to Darien. The team gets great travel advice at the Visitors Information Center (VICS) just outside Savannah and sets off. Phil finds fantastic food at the famous Lady and Sons while David discovers local legends and haunting fun on Savannah’s Ghosts and Gravestones tour. Keely tries a new outdoor activity on Tybee Island with the help of the High Tide Surf Shop and later joins Phil on a getaway to the community of Hog Hammock on Sapelo Island. Our last stop: family fun at the Blessing of the Fleet Festival in Darien.
Van Halen Tour Coming To Jacksonville
The reunion tour with the band’s original lead singer David Lee Roth has added Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville to the tour. Van Halen will perform in Jacksonville on February 16th, 2008 according to Billboard magazine.
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Festivall ’08 in Charleston – Bigger and Better
Festivall ‘08 in Charleston is expanding. It’s stretching from four days to ten next summer. The festival is planned for June 20-29, 2008. Some of the activities planned include the Water Chili Cook-off, as well as performances by the Charleston Opera and the West Virginia Symphony.
More than 30,000 people attended the last Festivall in Charleston and organizers are expecting a bigger crowd in 2008.
Fourteen of the Western Hemisphere’s Most Dangerous Snakes Hatched at Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens
Jacksonville, Florida, November 26, 2007 – Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens has become Bushmaster pit viper central among zoos nationwide. The fourteen babies are the first offspring of the Zoo’s 5-year-old, 7-foot 6-inch female Bushmaster and its male mate. This is the first time the two have produced offspring. The eggs were hatched after a 75-day incubation period on September 1, 2007. Each of the neonate Bushmasters (Lachesis muta muta) were an average of 2 ½ ounces in weight and 22 ½ inches long.
TV Guide Network Renews Its Second Season of Hit News Reality Series, “Making News: Savannah Style”
LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–TV Guide Network®, a leading entertainment network providing original programming to over 84 million homes, today announced it has renewed its summer 2007 hit, MAKING NEWS for a second season with 13 episodes. Filming entirely on location in historical Savannah, Georgia, MAKING NEWS: SAVANNAH STYLE will go behind the scenes of local ABC affiliate WJCL-TV and local FOX affiliate WTGS-TV bringing viewers up close and personal with the drama, personalities, challenges and rewards that go into producing a local news broadcast. Season two will be full of surprises.