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In Savannah's sultry, sub-tropical summers, the hometown of Johnny Mercer embraces his admonition -- Accentuate the Positive. Don't miss events are Sizzling Summer of Arts & Music (July's art gallery hop and music at lunchtime in the squares), Savannah Swings with Mercer (July 4th) with fireworks on the Riverfront. "Only-in-Savannah" chilling places include the nostalgic Leopold's Ice Cream, Café GelatOhhh! (named best of the road by Rand McNally) for freshly frozen Italian gelato in City Market, or Harris Baking Co. for the Harris family's famous Regency Salad.
A Little Known Fact: On June 24, 1885, President Woodrow Wilson married Ellen Axson Wilson at the Independent Presbyterian Church (1890). In the movie, Forrest Gump, the opening feather scene showcases the church steeple overlooking Chippewa Square where Forrest sat on a park bench with his box of chocolates.
All Things Savannah Events | Savannah Things to Do
At Presidents’ Quarters, We Are Always Celebrating!
June: Dairy Month, Great Outdoors Month, National Drive Safe Month, National Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Month
National Iced Tea Month, National Tennis Month.
June: National Rose Month. ** We recommend seeking out the roses planted in 1911 on Pennyworth Island, just north of Hutchison Island.
Jun 21: First Day of Summer (Average Savannah weather: 80°F)
Through July 3: Diane von Furstenberg: Journey of a Dress, Gutstein Gallery, SCAD
Through July 25: Soldier Portraits by Ellen Susan,
Telfair’s Jepson Center
Jun 21: * Summer Quarter Begins, SCAD
June 26: Annual Fiesta Latina! 1-9PM, Rousakis Plaza, River Street. 912-238-2032
Jun 29: * Camera Day. We recommend you photograph beautiful Savannah, beginning in the formal gardens of our neighbor, Telfair’s Owens-Thomas House museum!
Through Jul 23: music concerts in Johnson Square on Wednesdays and Fridays, 11:00 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sponsor: City of Savannah, Department of Cultural Affairs.
July: *National Ice Cream Month, National Picnic Month, National Recreation Month, National Baked Bean Month
National Blueberry Month, National Hot Dog Month
Jul 3 - Aug 11: *Dog Days of Summer **Wear light-weight cotton! Jul 3: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954), Trustees Theatre
Jul 4: *4th of July, Independence Day in U.S.
Jul 5: *Independence Day, Federal Holiday
Jul 5: *National Fried Chicken Day. We recommend Mrs. Wilkes tomorrow!
Jul 9: *National Sugar Cookie Day. We recommend Two Smart Cookies!
Jul 11: Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, Trustees Theatre
Jul 17: Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), Trustees Theatre
Jul 18: *National Ice Cream Day. We recommend Leopold’s!
Jul 20: *Ice Cream Soda Day. We recommend Leopold’s!
Jul 21: Educational Field Trip to Ossabaw Island
Through – July 25: Soldier Portraits: Contemporary Wet Plate Collodion Photographs by Ellen Susan,
Telfair’s Jepson Center
July 25-31: Art Educators’ Forum, SCAD
Jul 30: *National Cheesecake Day. We recommend Lulu’s Chocolate Bar!
Jul 31: My Fair Lady (1964), Trustees Theatre
Through – Aug 1: The Story of Silver in Savannah, Telfair museum
Through-Sep 6 (Labor Day): Telfair Museums offers FREE admission to all active duty military personnel and their families.
Aug: American Artist Appreciation, National Catfish, and National Golf Month
Aug 1-14: Tripletail Fishing Rodeo, Coffee Bluff Marina
Aug 3: * National Watermelon Day
Aug 4: *Coast Guard Day (Est. 1790)
Aug 4: *National Chocolate Chip Day. We recommend Back in the Day Bakery!
Aug 5: * National Waffle Day
Aug 8: 2nd Sunday Bonaventure Foundation tours
Aug 10: * First Steam Locomotive. We recommend Roundhouse Museum visit.
Aug 14: Blackwater Paddle, Wilderness-Southeast.org
Aug 15: * National Relaxation Day. We recommend a stay at Presidents’ Quarters!
Aug 19: * National Aviation Day. We recommend a visit to Mighty 8th Museum!
Aug 22 : Best of the Birds! Wilderness-Southeast.org
Aug 24: * National Peach Pie Day.
Aug 26: * Last Day of Classes, SCAD
Through August 27: Pei Ling Chan Gallery, "Combined"
Aug 28: * Dream Day. Martin Luther King Jr. gave the "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963. We recommend a visit to The Walter O. Evans Center for African American Art in the SCAD Museum, the 2nd African Baptist Church on Greene Square (where Mr. King made that speech) and Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum.
Aug 31: * National Trail Mix Day. We recommend a stop-in at Savannah Bee Company on Broughton Street.
Sep: Better Breakfast Month. We recommend Chef Anna’s Pecan Praline French Toast!
Through-Sep 6 (Labor Day): Telfair Museums offers FREE admission to all active duty military personnel and their families.
Through Sep 17: Fashion in Focus: Photos and Evening Wear from the SCAD Museum of Art Collection
Sep: National Honey Month. We recommend Savannah Bee Company honey.
Sep: National Rice Month. We recommend a stop on Pennyworth Island, one of the "best represented Savannah River rice plantations in the historical record," according to a 1994 U.S. Corps of Engineers study. It’s just north of Hutchison Island at the foot of the Talmadge Bridge.
Sep TBD: Smithsonian Museum Day, Telfair museums
Sep 3-4: Savannah Craft Brew Fest
Sep 4: Native Medicinal Plants tour, Wilderness-Southeast.org
Sep 4: Midnight Garden Ride: A Bike Ride at Night
Sep 6: *Labor Day, Federal Holiday
Sep 7: Guest Chef Luncheon Series at Chef Joe Randall’s, Gullah Cuisine
Sep 9: *Rosh Hashanah. Temple Mickve Israel on Monterey Square, the 3rd oldest Jewish Synagogue in the U.S., invites visitors to High Holy Day Services. The synagogue requires a letter of request.
*Sep 9-19 (Toronto): The Conspirator, filmed in Savannah, to premiere at 35th Toronto Int’l Film Festival
Sep 11: The American Spirit, Savannah Philharmonic, Lucas Theatre
Sep 11: Best of the Birds! (Shorelines), Wilderness-Southeast.org
Sep 12: *Grandparent’s Day.
Sep 12: Concert Concert I, Savannah Philharmonic, Skidaway Island Methodist
Sep 12: 2nd Sunday Bonaventure Foundation tours
Sep 13: * Fall Quarters Begins, SCAD
Through Sep 17: Fashion in Focus: Photos and Evening Wear from the SCAD Museum of Art Collection
Sep 17-18: Gray’s Reef Ocean Film Festival, NOAA
Sep 18: Heart of 5k Run, Forsyth Park
Sep 18: Blackwater Paddle, Wilderness-Southeast.org
Sep 18: * Yom Kippur. Temple Mickve Israel on Monterey Square, the 3rd oldest Jewish Synagogue in the U.S., invites visitors to High Holy Day Services. The synagogue requires a letter of request.
Sep 19: International Talk Like a Pirate Day. We recommend lunch or a fabulous dessert at The Pirates’ House restaurant.
Sep 19-26: Savannah Jazz Festival. Free, thanks to City Cultural Affairs
Sep 21: International Day of Peace
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