Was looking for Flannery O'Connor images and came across this fine collection of Savannah, Georgia pics, including two of the "Waving Girl":
Whether legend or based on a true story I don't know, but as I recall the statue depicts a girl waiting for her fiance who was apparently lost at sea. For fifty years she'd wave to the incoming ships, hoping her man was on one. Isn't there something quintessentially Southern about this statue? Something romantic, maudlin, stubborn and Lost Cause-ish? I could be wrong but I'd be surprised to find a statue like that in the harbors of one of the Great Lakes. The German/English culture of the North is very different from the Scotch/Irish culture of the South, or at least used to be.
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