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Page 12 The Red and Black, Wednesday, June 14. |M7 IN WINTERVILLE
the front porch of the old
Hunnicut Hotel or eat ice
cream in the hotel parlor, toss
horseshoes in the park and
participate in a sandlot baseball
game.
The old railway station will
be opened for people to
browse through the displays of
antique dolls and old railroad
articles. Films of last year's
festival will be shown in the
back of the depot and gold
spikes will be sold with a
history of the station.
There will be an antique flea
market with an auction at 4
p.m. The Marigold Quilt '72,
which town women have been
working on for over a year, will
be the top item at the auction.
OLD SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS ON DISPLAY IN MUSEUM
Amputation saws, gold-plated microscope among artifacts
It's Marigold
By ( INDY LUKE
Managing editor
A parade down main street
and around the town square,
speakers under the trees on the
church lawn, ice cream in the
parlor of the old hotel and
bands playing on the park mall
A little apple cider here. A
little cornbrcad and buttermilk
there. Player piano honky-tonk
style and foot-stomping,
hoe-down banjo plucking. And,
of course, the crowning of Miss
Marigold 1472.
It's all in Winterville this
Saturday and Sunday.
Winterville. the sleepy little
town fifteen minutes east of
Athens just off Georgia
Highway 72, is buzzing with
townspeople, all b23 of them
getting ready for the Second
Annual Marigold Festival. And,
PHOTOS BY
TOM HILL
BOY SCOUTS REPAIR OLD MEDICAL BOOKS
Volumes were owned by local country' doctors
the Second Annual promises to
be a doosy.
Junior Samples of Hee-Haw
fame will be present to give
folks a sampling of his wit and
wisdom along with some good
ole country music.
Performances are scheduled for
3 p.m. and 8 p.m. Saturday in
the town auditorium. Tickets
are available at B&W Cleaners
on Oconee Street.
Senator Herman Talmadge
will be on hand to dedicate the
town's old country doctor's
museum at II a.m. Saturday.
The museum includes old
surgical instruments and
equipment which belonged to
two local doctors and a
collection of medical reference
books dating as far back as
1844. Preceding the
dedication, Talmadge will serve
as grand marshall of the festival
parade.
The parade, which begins at
10 a.m.. will be led by the
Third Army Band, along with
the Monroe Drum and Bugle
Corps, and the Clarke Central.
Madison and Oglethorpe high
school bands. Antique cars, an
entourage of horses, a 17
member banjo band and
“floats from all ovci '.he place”
will also be in the parade
line-up. along with PulTn Stuff
and Br'er Rabbit from Six
Flags, the organ grinder and his
monkey from Underground
Atlanta, the surrey from the
motion picture "Gone With the
Wind" and Miss Marigold and
her court.
Early comers can begin I heir
morning at the festival with a
ham and egg breakfast.
Breakfast will be served at the
country sidewalk cafe in the
park from 6 a.m. until parade
time Barbecue chicken will be
served at noon for the late
nsing city folks.
In the afternoon festival
goers can take hayrides,
compete in a flower exhibit in
the Volunteer Fire
Department, swing or rock on
time
MARIGOLDS MARK THE WALK OF THE TOWN HALL
Over S500 worth of flowers were planted for the festival
PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH HEX SIGN ADORNS GABLE OF OLD DEPOT
Sign is supposed to prevent evil spirits from entering building
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