The "Bird Girl": The Story of a Sculpture by Sylvia Shaw Judson

In the spring of 1994, a bronze sculpture of a little girl standing in scenic Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah, Georgia, became famous when it was featured on the cover of the popular book, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.

That demure little girl holding up twin bowls became a national sensation, an object so often sought by tourists, the sculpture had to be removed, first to a private home, then to a museum.

This is the story of that sculpture, the “Bird Girl”, and the talented...