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Local festival expected to bring thousands to Houston County April 19-20
By CAROLYN CHESTER
Special to the Times-Journal
of the past emanates
from the deep piney woods of
the Mossy Creek Barnyard
Festival to be held near Perry April 19-20.
Inside the split rail fence, hostesses in cal
ico, music of hammered dulcimer and
flowers around old buildings greet all.
The festival has been named One of
Top 100 Events in North America by the
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GNOMES ON THE WAY Bob
Evans of Virginia carves good
luck gnomes at the Mossy Creek
Shelton brothers heading
YMCA drive in this area
Thomas and Louis Shelton
have been selected to serve as the
Finance Chairmen for the State
YMCA of Georgia in Houstoa
County/Perry for 1997. The
finance drive is currently under
way to support the State YMCA
program in the community and
throughout Georgia.
The State YMCA of Georgia
provides leadership and training
for some 10,000 Hi-Y, Tri-Hi-Y
and Co-ed “Y” Club members
throughout Georgia through pro
grams on local, district, and state
levels.
•••
Former President Jimmy Carter
will be teaching Sunday School at
Maranatha Baptist Church in
Plains on May 4 and May 25.
Visitors are encouraged to arrive
and be seated by 9:30 a.m.
When you arrive in Plains, turn
right at the light, proceed a couple
of blocks past Plains Baptist
Church on the left, and Plains
High School on the right, to a fork
in the road. Take the right end of
the fork and proceed about 'k mile,
passing the big peanut on the
right. Maranatha Baptist Church
is then within sight on the right
side of the road.
The 55 Alive course is present
ed by AARP and sponsored by
Educare of the Houston Medical
Complex. 55 Alive is a compre
hensive course designed to update
drivers, age 50 and over, on their
knowledge and skills of driving.
Course completion entitles partic
ipants to a discount on their auto
insurance. Pre-registration is
required due to limited class size.
To register, call Leslie Dyson,
923-0771 or Walt Rembisz, 987-
1908.
Cost of the course is $8 per
person. The course will be held at
the Perry Hospital Cafeteria,
April 24 and 25 from 1 to 5 p.m.
or 6 to 9:30 p.m., each day.
Participants must attend four
hours both days (total of 8 hours)
to get credit for the course.
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American Bus Association. Mossy Creek
was nominated for this honor by the
Georgia Department of Industry, Trade,
and Tourism.
Thousands of visitors return to each
festival from across the nation. This is
documented by guest books where Judy
Howerton from Fenton, Mich., wrote,
“Come South just for this show. Love it!
Drove all night. See you next festival.”
Skills passed down through generations
may be learned from more than 40 old
timers along the straw covered paths.
Some skills demonstrated at no other festi
val include handbuilding wooden canoes,
weaving chairseats with comshucks,
building fishing rods, combing angora
from live rabbits and spinning it into yam,
and carving in bas-relief into old slate
taker from New England homes.
Cleater Meaders follows ways of his
ancestors and turns his heirloom pottery
on a kick wheel. The Smithsonian has
made a film giving details of his fifth gen
eration methods. This film is shown at the
festival.
Beatrice Childs, who has lived near
Perry more than 70 years, draws a crowd
around her black pots as she tells about
soap making and hominy cooking. These
skills have been in her family longer than
she can remember. All can learn how to get
the husk off the com kernels for hominy
and how to use lye to make soap. She
guarantees that her soap will clean any
thing.
Artists carefully chosen from the best in
the nation will come from 26 states. Their
art work is not totally country, but their
neighborliness is a distinct country her
itage. Bob and Audrey Kuhn from Sun
City, Ariz., appraised them, “The best we
have seen across the nation.”
Potpourri
Pauline Lewis
Lifestyle Editor
Blair Brown, who starred in
“The Days and Nights of Molly
Dodd”, a classic television series,
stars as Erica Stanton, the United
States Attorney for the Southern
District of New York in “FEDS”
She has a distinguished film,
theater and television career
before and after Dodd. She starred
in “A Season in Purgatory”,
“Altered States”, ‘Continental
Divide”, and last year she won
critical acclaim for her work in the
play “Arcadia”.
Blair is the daughter of Mrs.
Ann Blair Brown of Fort Valley,
well-known for her managerial
association with the Headquarters
of the American Camellia Society,
at Massee Lane Gardens, located
between Fort Valley and
Marshallville.
•••
Angie Mitchem of “Creative
Memories”, will hold a hands-on
workshop in honor of National
Scrapbook Day on May 3, from
10 a.m. - 4 p.m., at Comfort Inn in
Perry. A beginner’s orientation
class that teaches the importance
of the keepsake album tradition,
as well as how-to tips and creative
ideas, will take place from 10 a.m.
- 1 p.m. The cost is sslo per per
son.
The all-day workshop fee of
$lO per person, includes lunch.
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New exhibitors will join old favorites
and bring art engraved into wood, minia
ture paintings on gemstones, designs hand
hammered into metal, and many other
unique works of art.
Musical stops include the amphitheater
with bluegrass bands joined by the State
4H Clovers and Cos., performing arts
group, doggers, and choruses. Honky-
Tonk Haven offers a resting place and
music of ragtime piano and the Blueberry
Jam Trio with original songs and profes
sional harmonica. The Gathering Place
invites all to join in songs, autoharp and
dulcimer music, and Uncle Gus tellin’
tales and singin’ songs.
Along the paths John Stockard plays his
handbuilt lap dulcimer and teaches anyone
to play in 15 minutes. Greg Hunt translates
his Amazon experiences into bamboo
music. Betty Fowler sings heritage songs
with Irish harp and parlor zither. 01’ Hat
and Uncle Tom crack the bullwhip at
Hillbilly Junction and involve visitors in
their hilarity.
As the farm bell rings, Bob Evans, the
magic gnome carver from Virginia,
becomes Larry the Leprechaun. He pied
pipes his troupe of followers to Fantasy
Forest to hear humorous stories. Cliff
Patton, a professional magician and ven
triloquist, gives two shows a day.
Enticing odors wafting up the paths
lead to hush puppies being cooked and
given free to all including Ginger, the
combread eating mule, who pulls the
wagon ride. Downhome cooking by 14
community groups entice visitors to an all
’ day meal of fried chicken, blackeyed peas
and combread, com cooked in shucks, bar
becued chicken, pit-cooked barbecue and
many other favorites. A sweet treat is
offered by the Sweet Adelines as they
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Hayrides go into the woods, farm ani
mals beg for continuous feeding and pet
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with visitors.
Mossy Creek Festival is a semiannual
festival held the third weekend in October
and in April except on Easter. Admission is
$4 adults and $1 children with free parking
in area adjacent to festival. Hours are 10 -
6 daily.
The festival is located between the
North Perry Bypass and Ga. 96 off Lake
Joy Road, about five miles north of Perry
city limits. Parking is available on site.
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