The Herschbach angel, Bonaventure Cemetery
Bonaventure Cemetery · 17 February 2025
A carved mourning angel over the Herschbach family plot, one of hundreds of Victorian funerary monuments spread through Bonaventure's oak-and-moss grounds.
The cemetery predates the Civil War and became famous well beyond Savannah after John Berendt used one of its statues - the Bird Girl, since moved indoors for its own protection - on the cover of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.
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