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A Rabun County family all dressed-up in their colorful
mountaineer attire for the annual Mountaineer Festival. (PRN)
TOUR
GEORGIA
CLAYTON, Ga. (PRN) -
Bearded men, sunbonneted
women, and dancing
youngsters will soon fill the
streets of Rabun County in
the north Georgia mountains.
What’s more, it is said there
will be an old-fashioned
calaboose waiting for those
who dare to appear without
beard or bonnet at the
Mountaineer Festival, June
17-20.
Preparations for the 11th
annual Festival actually get
underway June 11 with a
beauty contest to choose a
local belle to reign as Queen of
the Festival. This event will be
followed by a street dance in
Clayton.
Fiddlers will be tuning up
for country-sound
competition on the 16th and
17th, and doggers will join in
on the 18th and 19th, with
finals held at the Mountain
City Playhouse, between
Clayton and Dillard.
Saturday, the 19th, will also
be the day of the big parade,
with floats depicting Rabun
County of the 1800’s— from
quilting bees to moonshine
stills. Judges will award prizes
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The Festival will end
Sunday, June 20, with both a
horse show and a gospel sing.
Along with scheduled
activities will be crafts and
costume contests.. .beard and
baby contests .. .and one
hilarious competition that has
participants giving dauntless
chase to a greased pig. There
will be Main Street exhibits of
art and wildlife .. .a fireworks
display .. .a tempting array of
home-cooked food, including
chicken barbecue and baked
goods.
And scattered among
Rabun County’s soring peaks
are shining lakes for swimming
and fishing, rolling hills for
golfing and hiking—all warmed
by summer sun and cooled by
mountain breezes.
The Department of
Industry and Trade, Tourist
Division, suggests you don a
beard or bonnet, pack your
weekend sports gear and head
for the northeast corner of the
State. For further information
on Georgia’s Mountaineer
Festival, contact the Rabun
County Chamber of
Commerce, Clayton, Georgia
30525.
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THREATENED—Portions of St Paul’s Cathedral in London may have to be closed to the public
because of damage done by World War II German bombs and general deterioration. Cracks were
discovered in building when it was cleaned about four years ago.
St. Paul's Cathedral
shows bombing affects
By GUY RYAN
Copley News Service
LONDON — At long last, the
German bombing barrage of
World War II has begun to take
its toll on St. Paul’s Cathedral,
England’s biggest ec-
clesiastical building and
second only to St. Peter’s in all
Christendom.
Major cracks in the building,
resulting in large part from the
nightmare of German bombs,
were discovered when the
exterior of the old building was
cleaned some four years ago.
And more deterioration has
been discovered in the last 18
months.
The Dome and the Whis
pering Gallery of the archi
tectural masterpiece created
by Sir Christopher Wren more
than 250 years ago will have to
be closed to the public unless
repairs are made. And soon.
“It would not be safe to allow
visitors into the areas,” said
Sir Peter Studd, lord mayor of
London. Plans are already
under way to raise funds for the
repairs which could avert the
closing.
Sir Christopher spent most of
his life designing the cathedral
and watching it grow. He was
34 when the Great Fire of
London razed the city, and old
St. Paul’s along with it, in 1666.
He immediately began plans
for the new edifice.
The first stone was laid nine
years after the fire, when he
was 43. He was 77 when the last
one was set in 1711. He died at
91 and is entombed in the
cathedral. St. Paul’s is his
monument.
Statesmen, warriors, poets
and painters have their graves
here — Lord Nelson, Lord
Collingwood, the duke of
Wellington, Lawrence of
Arabia, Florence Nightingale
and many others.
And here among the chapels
and the tombs is a tribute to the
Americans who died in military
operations in Britain in the last
war.
The American Chapel was
dedicated in 1958 as Britain’s
memorial to them. It contains
the arms of the American
states in stained glass, wood
carvings of American birds and
animals, and a Roll of Honor
bearing 28,000 names.
Commonwealth war dead
also were honored in 1958 when
a new altar of marble replaced
a bomb-damaged altar screen.
(The cathedral took two direct
bomb hits, but damage was
relatively light.) This altar is
Britain’s memorial to more
than 324,000 Commonwealth
men and women who lost their
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lives in the war.
Millions of visitors to the
cathedral have climbed the
steps to the Whispering Gallery
100 feet above the floor of the
great edifice. (The gallery
derived its name from the fact
that a whisper against the wall
on one side can be heard
distinctly near the wall on the
opposite side, 107 feet away in a
straight line.)
From here, you can step out
onto the Stone Gallery for a
view excelled only by that from
the Golden Gallery above it.
Higher still is the little
ballroom. From it you can look
down onto the cathedral floor
300 feet below for an over-all
view of the vast dimensions of
St. Paul’s.
The venerable Renaissance
structure is 515 feet long and
250 feet wide across the trans
cepts. Height from the
pavement to the top of the cross
is 365 feet.
History records that Britain
has overcome far greater
challenges than that posed by
St. Paul’s and the odds are good
that the $7.2 million needed to
preserve the magnificent
cathedral will be forthcoming
long before the windows
opening onto one of the world’s
most memorable views are
shuttered.
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