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[ bells tolling ] the faithful around the globe celebrate christmas. Pope francis used his Christmas Eve mass to urge the world not to ignore the plight of migrants. Parts of the country are enjoying a White Christmas, but snow and wind are also causing headaches across new england and the great plains. Merry christmas. President trump stayed busy in maralago taking aim at the Deputy Director of the fbi on twitter. Is he saying there are some bad apples at the fbi . Hes making a point we have to make sure. Rescuers are searching for survivors after a tycoon hit the philippines. A Small Plane Crash in florida. Five people are dead. A tragedy any of the day of the week. The worst tragedy on christmas. Winter enthusiasts trapped in a ski lift in france. Luckily, no one got hurt. More on that. 103 yards Carolina Panthers went to the playoff spot. All that matters. Santa claus is coming to town. The president and first lady working the phones with norad, the agency that tracks santa. Santa
He brought 60,000 guest, the union army. Sherman had previously been to savannah and lost savannah. There was no burning, looting or destruction. Savannah was spared. Sherman just left savannah about four months later with those 60,000 troops. A significant amount of marriages occurred between savannah women and northern officers. So we come up past the American Civil War through the reconstruction period ending in 1876. By the 1920s cotton had failed because of overgrowth and lack of fertlization and in gave the weevil and savannah was back to being poor. Lady aster said savannah was a beautiful lady with a dirty face. By the 40s and 50s the old houses in downtown savannah were worth more dead than alive just to get the bricks to build new houses. One city planner said savannah was so poor she was not able to destroy herself unquote. Progress did make some hideous inroads in putting highways through one part of the old town and a street through three of the pressures squares. At one p
The founders are. In 1954, come to the rescue was the Historic Preservation society who had enough when the Old City Market was destroyed and they built an incredibly hideous looking parking lot. So, they band together and formeded what some called it hysterical save savannah foundation. Literally seven old ladies, some in tennis shoes, went around throwing their bodies in front of the wrecking ball to stop the progress and a Revolving Fund started to buy a house for 5,000, restore it to what it was and sell it for 25,000 or something. You got 20,000 and you do it and do it until at some point savannah now has the largest restored Historic District in america which is quite an accomplishment. What has been done since 1954 is an accomplishment. And i will not name any of those seven little old ladies. They are not twittering old lady. They have clout and it showed. Historic savannah is sometimes nogs meaning north of gaston street. My wife and i live on gaston street. We live on the sou