This field trip will involve a walking tour of the old Armstrong campus in downtown Savannah. We will begin at the corner of Bull and Gaston, at the elegant Armstrong Mansion, with a visit to the lobby and adjacent rooms to imagine what it would have been like to be students or faculty in such a setting.  We will also take a look at the other buildings that the college built, brought, or borrowed as its "campus" grew.  Then we will walk through the area that the college envisioned for its major expansion, until an escalating protest from the neighborhood and from historic preservation interests reached such a pitch that banker Mills B. Lane, Jr. broke the impasse with his offer to purchase a new site for the college in a location where it would have unobstructed room to grow.  What if Armstrong had stayed in historic downtown Savannah . . . . We can wonder as we wander.  Our walk will conclude with lunch downtown.

On this popular field trip you will canoe the Ogeechee River from Morgans Bridge, where Route 204 crosses the Ogeechee, to the 19th century Savannah-Ogeechee Historic Barge Canal.  The trip is about nine river miles and will take about 3 1/2 hours.  Several stops enroute examine outcrops of ancient beach-and-dune sand deposits formed when the sea level stood considerably higher than it does today.  A tour of the Canal follows a barbecue picnic lunch.  Please indicate your canoeing experience with your registration form.

There’s been a cotton revival in Georgia during the last few years; acreage and production are way up from their levels of a generation ago.  This full-day trip will provide a view of four aspects of the present-day cotton business: (1) cotton being harvested near Claxton, (2) cotton from the field being processed at a modern cotton gin near Statesboro, (3) the Savannah factory of the Lummis Corporation, manufacturers of cotton ginning machinery, and (4) the office of a cotton broker in downtown Savannah.

Flowers in the winter! Only in the south can you take a really good garden tour during the winter months. At Magnolia Gardens near Charleston, South Carolina, an extensive collection of camellias covers the grounds of the three hundred-year-old Magnolia Plantation. Come with us to see these magnificent trees that are in the Tea family. This field trip will focus on the camellias, the biblical garden, topiary garden, horticultural maze and enclosed tropical garden. We will also have time to take a tour of the pre revolutionary plantation house, rice fields and other attractions on the grounds.

Join us for a tour of several sites that are significant to Savannah’s Black experience.  We will visit the Savannah and Ogeechee Canal basin, Yamacraw Bluff, Green Square, and the Beach Institute.  The tour will conclude with lunch at the world-famous eating establishment, Nita’s.

Increasing demands on the Floridan aquifer–Savannah’s primary water supply–have forced local government to utilize surface water from the Savannah River.   We will visit the Industrial and Domestic Water treatment plant to see what is involved in making Savannah River water fit to drink.  As more of the city’s water is supplied from the river, most of it is returned to the river after use.  We will examine what happens to our water after we send it "away" down the drain.   During a tour of the President Street plant we will observe how wastewater is treated to make it less environmentally hazardous before being released into the Savannah River.