Yesterday Jim and I were walking downtown Augusta on the opening day of the Westobou Festival. The Westobou Festival sort of took over the old “Arts in the Hearts” of Augusta that happens every year. Don’t worry, “Arts in the Hearts” is still going this weekend, always fun and has good food. We had dinner in a small restaurant called “Casa Blanca” which is located in the old Whites building. The upper floors are now luxury condos. They serve lunch but starting at 5:00pm they become a “Tapas” restaurant. After dinner we walked down to the “Zimmerman” art gallery. HISTORY LESSON: The Augusta area used to be inhabited by an Indian tribe called the “Westo Indians”. There name for the near-by river (now called the Savannah) was the “Westobou”…thus the name of the festival.
We spoke to Ms Zimmerman the day before and she told us that she would be hosting a “Whiskey Painter” so we went by to see him. I don’t know his name but he came down from North Carolina.HISTORY LESSON: There are only 150 “Whiskey Painters” and Ms Zimmerman is actually one of them. Google “Whiskey Painters of America”. It is very interesting. All the paintings are water colors using some “alcohol based” liquid instead of water.
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