Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil Cemetery

It is over his grave that minerva performed the incantations to ensure a more.

Midnight in the garden of good and evil cemetery. The book turned into the movie entitled midnight in the garden of good and evil berendt s book remained on the new york times best seller list for 216 weeks following its debut. Louis buzzard the husband of minerva the folk magic practitioner who figures in the story is buried. The cemetery became famous when it was featured in the 1994 novel midnight in the garden of good and evil by john berendt and in the subsequent movie directed by clint eastwood based on the book.

This mysterious statue achieved fame when it was featured on the cover of the novel midnight in the garden of good and evil originally located in bonaventure cemetery this well known statue was moved to the telfair academy to be part of the art exhibition titled before midnight. It is the largest of the city s municipal cemeteries containing nearly 160. Not only to walk the hallowed grounds and photograph in bonaventure cemetery but to travel in the city itself with its leafy green squares full of fountains and statues and history.

With john cusack kevin spacey jack thompson irma p. Bonaventure and the bird girl. Bonaventure cemetery is a rural cemetery located on a scenic bluff of the wilmington river east of savannah georgia.

Directed by clint eastwood. Although bonaventure cemetery is the focus in the book the garden of good and evil refers principally to the cemetery in beaufort south carolina where dr. The movie adaptation debuted in 1997 with actor clint eastwood as director and producer and john lee hancock as screenwriter.