My Hometown

A small introduction to my hometown, St. Marys, Georgia. I'll have to get some more details about these buildings from my parents, as of right now, I'm using my own shoddy memory.


On the left, is the Riverside Hotel. It is 100 years old, easy... unfortunately, the owner does not seem to take good care of it. It looks pretty run down and depressing these days. Still, it is a staple in Downtown St. Marys.

This is the Market on the Square, a small gift shop that sells ice cream and chocolate fudge. Its owned and operated by a girl I used to go to elementary school with. When I pick up Ted from school, we would sometimes stop by here and get ice cream. Those days are now over as he is entering middle school next year... and we all know what happens to kids when they're in middle school--they turn into snotty brats. A phase we have all gone through!



Here is the Spencer House Inn... I honestly thought this was a Bed and Breakfast... I'm not sure when it was upgraded to an Inn. This house was built in 1872. A mere child to all you Europeans out there, but this is a pretty old building for the U.S. (and for the South, since so much of it was burned during the civil war).

This is Orange Hall, named so because of all the Orange Trees that are planted along side it. This house is rumored to have the ghost of a young girl in it. I'm told that there is a window in one of the bedrooms in which she is slowly etching her name. They apparently also have to remake her bed on occasion.

In St. Marys--being the small town that it is-- one can imagine the talk that this billboard started. There was chatter that some man must have gotten caught cheating on his wife --and she was pissed! A few weeks later, it said: "YOUR NEIGHBOR KNOWS TOO!" Oh boy, we all thought that there was some juicy gossip about to explode on the scene. A few weeks later, we were all disappointed to discover that it was an advertisement for a car dealership in Brunswick. So much for all that...

More to come!