"I don't regret..." Vaughnette Goode-Walker, Returned

Erin Adams

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“I don’t regret moving back to Savannah,” says Vaughnette. She grew up in Savannah, graduated from St. Vincent’s, and left the city at 17, spending many years as a journalist and poet in New York and Atlanta before coming back for good.

Now, Vaughnette works as the director of cultural diversity for the Telfair Museum, spending her days telling the stories of a place (like the Owens-Thomas House) or piece of art instead of the stories of a person.

“It’s such a good place, you know, to be here in Savannah. I really enjoy it,” says Vaughnette, and she truly has come full circle—she even built a house on her ancestral land. “My grandfather had come to that place in 1928, and my mother was born out there. So that’s been a part of it for me, coming back to my family’s home.”

-Aleigh Acerni