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...willing to consider those 18 or older, mobile with the aid of just one person, mentally alert, able to feed themselves, continent of bowel and bladder. A number of centers specialize in patients who need rehabilitation rather than long-term care. Patients at the Georgia Infirmary, Inc., in Savannah, for example, attend therapy classes for seven to 14 weeks, at a cost ranging from $350 to $2,000 a month. Most have been disabled by strokes, arthritis, diabetes or neurological injuries, yet 70% "can live functionally independent lives," says Program Director Hunter Hurst...
...Savannah, Ga., efforts began in the mid-'70s to restore the city's Victorian district, tenanted mainly by the poor, elderly and black. It was slow going until McNulty and Partners went to work, championing the project, bringing in TV reporters and, at one point in 1978, even luring an approving First Lady Rosalynn Carter to town. During her visit, the Ford Foundation announced a loan of $750,000. The ballyhoo also convinced the black community that gentrification was not just for the gentry...
...Foreign Car Driver had seen the Colonel once before, but he had passed it off as a apparition. He had been walking one night in Savannah, Georgia in the midsts of a raging black mood, and the Colonel had suddenly appeared, as if by magic, on the porch of an old brownstone. He had looked at the driver and said, "Good Evening." There was something in the way he said it that made you feel as if he knew the drear shit and persiflage and yet could still be amiable. He wasn't one of those hereditary Kentucky Colonels...
...Savannah, Georgia, the Sinn Fein Society sponsored the city's 157th Irish parade--which drew 20,000 people--and then served a breakfast of green grits to city residents...
Somewhere around Savannah, you begin to smell it. You peel yourself out of the car for a Mountain Dew while the gas man pumps it full of unleaded, and it grabs you like a Dick Butkus bear-hug. You smell it, you taste it, and then you feel it: summer is coming--you are going to Florida...