Psychologist and mom on a mission to make healthier families

On a hot summer day in 2005, volunteer Cheryl Tilton was on the beach, helping a leader from the Tybee Island Marine Science Center excavate a sea turtle’s nest.

The restaurant is quiet; it’s only a handful of hours before the doors open and a day’s worth of prepping turns into dinner for hundreds of diners.

If you find yourself on a boat during the summer in Savannah, you’d best be prepared with a well-stocked cooler that contains not only plenty of beverages but plenty of edibles, too. For surely, there is no better appetizer than an hour or two on the water. Just pulling away from the dock seems to bring on a hunger that can only be appeased by boat-food traditions that as are entrenched as broccoli casserole at Thanksgiving.

The January chill makes most people want to stay home with a good book by a cozy fire. But for many college students on limited budgets, it’s the time to plan spring and summer travel.

Tulafinny and Tybee. Ossabaw and Ocmulgee. Yuchi and Yemassee. Even the name “Savannah” has Native American roots. Long before General Oglethorpe forged his friendship with Tomochichi, chief of the Yamacraw, coastal Georgia was home to tribes allied with the Creek and Muskogee nations.

It was the first truly comfortable evening after a long season of sweltering heat, too many hurricane threats and too few people downtown.

But this night, the magic was back, and Broughton Street was alive with energy. Couples hustled hand in hand to the Lucas Theatre, and new Savannah College of Art and Design students exuded Bohemian cool as they walked to The Last Supper With Mom and Dad.

Sitting opposite the Savannah Civic Center on the southeastern corner of Orleans Square, the Champion-McAlpin-Harper-Fowlkes House — one of Savannah’s remaining mid-19th century mansions — recalls the city’s antebellum days.

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