Independence Day in Georgia

If you are still trying to plan your Fourth of July, we are here to help!  The following is a list of fireworks displays and Independence Day festivals for you and your family to enjoy.

June 30, 2012     Great Golden Isles Yard Sale

Brunswick, Georgia -

This is what you get when a yard sale collides head on with a festival! New, used items, crafts, art, food & entertainment.

 

 

 

 

 

 

June 30 -July 01, 2012     Independence Day Celebration

Auburn , Georgia -

Annual 4th of July 2-day festival including fireworks, food, game, ride, and craft vendors

 

June 30 -July 01, 2012     Peachtree Corners Festival

Peachtree Corners, Georgia -

Juried arts&crafts show, musical entertainment, children's activities, car show, food and a 5K/10K race

 

July 03, 2012     Dawson Day Sparks in the Park

Dawsonville, Georgia -

FREE: Family fun, children's activities, a variety of foods, and a sky-popping fireworks display at dark. 

Click on Georgia Festivals and Fares for more information.

Don't Forget Dad!

Father’s Day is this Sunday, June 17th.   What was the best advice you ever received from your Father?  Share it with us!  We’d love to hear it.

Or just enjoy some of these pithy quotes about our favorite dads:

"A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station." -- Bill Cosby
"A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again." -- Enid Bagnold
"A father is a guy who has snapshots in his wallet where his money used to be." – Unknown
"My father always told me, 'Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.' " -- Jim Fox
"A father is a banker provided by nature." -- French Proverb
"My father said, 'Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right?'" -- Dexter Scott King
"When I was a kid, I said to my father one afternoon, 'Daddy, will you take me to the zoo?' He answered, 'If the zoo wants you, let them come and get you.'" -- Jerry Lewis
"Small boy's definition of Father's Day: It's just like Mother's Day only you don't spend so much." – Unknown
"By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong." -- Charles Wadsworth

Check out more quotations here.

Take a Mini-Vacation at Amicalola Falls

Take a hike this weekend at the beautiful Amicalola Falls.  This park has 12 miles of beautiful trails with scenic waterfalls everywhere you turn.  Enjoy the weather and take in nature at this historic site close to where you live:

"As far as a hiker is concerned, Amicalola could be Cherokee for hiking instead of "Tumbling Waters" (its actual meaning). This almost 1,000 acre park features 12 miles of completely integrated trails that can form a number of loop trails, and is the start (or end, depending on how you look at it) of the 2,108 mile Appalachian Trail. In addition to camping and a lodge, Amicalola Falls manages the "Hike Inn", a hiker's lodge that requires a 5-mile trek. 

About the park 

The first written account of the falls, by William Williamson as he explored the Cherokee Nation in anticipation of Georgia's Sixth Land Lottery includes dramatic testimony to the difficulty of the climb. Halfway up he quit. 

The land was divided and given to settlers that year. Three years later Andy Jackson's administration negotiated the corrupt Treaty of New Echota, finally forcing the Cherokee from their land illegally in 1838 in an episode now known as the Trail of Tears (another Trail of Tears page) 

So rugged and remote was the land in the vicinity of the falls that even the hardy settlers who pushed west did not stay here. Deep inside the valley a Cherokee woman lived until the 1850's, known only to nearby settlers. 

Although the tallest falls east of the Mississippi, the park was not developed until the Georgia Appalachian Trail Club needed a new terminus to the Appalachian Trail in the 1950's. The old trail to Mount Oglethorpe had been repeatedly bisected and threatened by commercial development. Springer Mountain seemed like the perfect place to create a new end to the footpath that connected America's East Coast. Amicalola Falls State Park was created to give hikers a starting point near a major road. "

Plan your next day trip here:  http://www.georgiatrails.com/gt/Amicalola_Falls