It is sunny and 65 today in Savannah Ga. It is a great old town and downown looks like something out of a book. Look back at some of the 18th century pictures of squares and house and you have Savannah. A very good friend of mine, Jim Williams helped downtown just as much as anyone. He was a man made millioniare. His mama was a cleark and his daddy was a barber in Gordon GA, about 30 miles from Macon. Jim got out of the air force in Savannah and started a small old furniture store, selling old and junk things. He moved to the old fort with his boyfriend in 1961 and met us kids in the park and we started working for him. He also was a very good friend of Mills B. Lane the owner of C and S bank and his family was very rich. He made is money selling to famous people all over this world and knew his shit, when it came to american silver and painting. He purchased and island for 5,000 and sold it for 750,000 back in the middle 60's for phosphate digging rights and they never dugged the first pound, another story. After he died, they wrote a book about him called Midnight in the garden of good and Evil and then a movie, both of them were okay, but not all true.
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