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04 10 2008

North Georgia Mountains Indian Summer Festival

Posted by: Dale in North Georgia Mountains, tags: , , , ,

North Georgia Mountains The Indian Summer Festival in Suches, Georgia


To some it is a secret land in the valley above the clouds, as for me, I call it my old stomping grounds (as I grew up in these hills), but nevertheless, it needs a write up on my travel pages.

From Indian Summer Festival

Yes, its lovely October in the North Georgia Mountains, the leaves begin to change, the feel of autumn is in the air, and its time for the Harvest Festivals.

north georgia mountains
From Indian Summer Festival

So I headed out over the mountain to the little town of Suches, Georgia to the Indian Summer Festival, that is thrown to support the local school in Suches, and the students and teachers and family folks all get together in the small community to put on the festival.

Suches georgia
From Indian Summer Festival

Now Suches Georgia is a very small unincorporated mountain town at the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

I began my festival jaunt by watching the auctioneer for a bit as he sold this and that, and I continued to watch all kinds of neat little events.

I opted for a good old fashioned cheeseburger, but they had BBQ, funnel cakes, and other goodies.

Indian Summer Festival
From Indian Summer Festival

Now the Indian Summer Festival had all sorts of mountain crafts, and some of them were cute. Now for me, all I wanted to take home was the cute gal who was selling mini-tea-pots and hand-bags (hey I can dream can’t I ?)… so I didn’t opt for any of the goodies on sale.

They also were holding several raffles, including a hand-made quilt raffle and one for a hunting riffle.

From Indian Summer Festival

So along with visiting folks, I rambled through looked at booths, watched the turkey shoot and also did some toe-tapping to the music.

Yep, there was a bit of pickin’ and grinnin’ (bluegrass), as well as a group of young cloggers from the school, and a group doing random stuff with drums.

Some of the other goodies that I caught included seeing the wee kids doing a sort of Indian Play in their little Indian costumes, and they did a little history lesson on the Cherokee Indians. Oh and I caught the crafts display hall as well, but didn’t buy any raffles or pies.

There are more pictures of the event at my Picasa album so you can go there if you want to check them out. You can also click the images in this article to view larger pics (links open in a new window).

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