Lillian Shaw's Portfolio

My cousin recently had a baby girl named Vada, a name that inspired me to design these nerd-tastic onesies. I'm pretty excited about how cute they turned out, as you can tell. 

I wrote this article for the January issue of BORO Magazine, which serves the communities of Western Queens -- Astoria, Long Island City and Sunnyside. 

I wrote a monthly music column called "Listen Up! Music We Like" for the Macon Food & Culture magazine. Each column featured an article and a Q&A with a local musician or band. 

The Macon Telegraph, April 11, 2010. 

This article was featured on the cover of the Life & Style section of The Macon Telegraph. 

Antebellum Trail Pilgrimage highlights Georgia treasures

By Lillian Shaw

Published: April 18, 2010, The Macon Telegraph, the daily newspaper of Middle Georgia

  During the Civil War, Union Army Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman marched across Georgia, from Atlanta to Savannah, leaving little but scorched red clay in his wake. Nearly 146 years later, architectural survivors of Sherman’s infamous March to the Sea still stand.

Many of these homes and museums are featured on Georgia’s Antebellum Trail, which winds through Athens and five other communities before ending in Macon. This week, each community on the Trail is coordinating to host the second annual Antebellum Trail Pilgrimage, a self-guided tour through the history, culture and charm of the Old South. 

“It will be an authentic Southern experience,” said Andy Williams, project coordinator for the Madison Convention and Visitors Bureau. 

The Pilgrimage includes museums and house tours in Athens, Watkinsville, Madison, Eatonton, Milledgeville and Macon. 

Some museums will be offering special tours and events as part of the Pilgrimage package, and various restaurants and local venues will also be offering discounts, said Heather Kennedy, the project coordinator for Milledgeville. 

The Sidney Lanier Cottage in Macon, the birthplace of the famous American musician and poet, will host special first-person tours from the great Sidney Lanier himself. Well, almost.

Marty Willet has been impersonating Macon-native Lanier for over 20 years, but giving tours as Lanier is more fun now than ever, he said. 

Willet is especially excited about the Pilgrimage, and he plans to give tours as a “more fun and frisky” 15-year-old Lanier.

“What better than to meet a dead poet at his birthplace for a lively event?” Willet joked.

Both the Lanier Cottage and the Cannonball House will remain open on Sunday because of the Pilgrimage. 

Dorene Buchanan, the historian and archivist at the Cannonball House, said, “We’re excited [about the Pilgrimage] because we’ll get to see different guests, from different lots in life.” 

One Pilgrimage pass allows access to any seven of the participating attractions or events. The Pilgrimage, which takes place April 21-25, is designed so that tour-goers can take in all the attractions in one day or spread them out over the course of several days.

This year’s Pilgrimage includes more tours of private homes, which are not a standard part of the Antebellum Trail, Kennedy said. Also new to the Pilgrimage is a tour of the Old Athens Cemetery and the St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Milledgeville, the only church featured.

“There’s just so much to do and see,” Kennedy said. “Each city has something that is so amazing.”

Kennedy recommends that tour groups start out by visiting the welcome center of each community for information about special discounts and a map of the town for easy navigation.

For a class at Mercer, I had to design a brochure for the Engineering School. There are many things I would change about this brochure, both content- and design-wise. But I did enjoy the project, and here are the results. 

I've decided this occasion is momentous enough that it should be added to both my résumé and my portfolio. 

On June 26, 2011, I helped actor Henry Winkler with his iPhone. I also resisted the temptation to tell him to bang on it and see if that worked. 

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