There are not too many living writers who can claim to have authored books which had the kind of impact upon a city which John Berendt’s Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil has had on Savannah, Georgia (USA). The boosts it provided for Savannah’s tourism and film industries have been well documented. Appropriately enough, during this 2024 30th anniversary of “The Book’s” publication, a commemorative edition with a new afterward by the author has been released and a musical adaptation for Broadway is reportedly in production.
Everything just noted means February 5, 2024, will mark the 30th anniversary of the first in a series of book signing I had with Berendt and various nonfiction characters featured in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. My part in the story of those now legendary times is told in the story “Days of Midnight Madness, published in the book Greeting Flannery O’Connor at the Back Door of My Mind, an excerpt from which is shared below:
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By Human Author-Poet-Artist Aberjhani
Bridge of Silver Wings 2025 
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