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The Foxfire Mountaineer Festival is a single-day celebration of the rich heritage of the Southern Appalachian mountains, featuring traditional music from numerous regional performers, showcases and demonstrations of time-honored handicrafts and trades, and all manner of mountain-flavored games and challenges for young and old alike. The Festival also honors the people of Southern Appalachia, represented at the event by the kind folks who have shared their tales and their lives with Rabun County high school students since 1966 and allowed those stories to be shared with the world through the pages of Foxfire books and magazines.
Go ahead and plan on making a day of it — lunch won't be a problem, with everything from burgers to hot dogs to peanuts to funnel cakes on offer. There will be top-notch Bluegrass and Gospel music on stage throughout the day, ranging from true traditional to more-current styles, but all mountain-grown, through and through. Keeping the old skills alive, the craftsfolk will be showing finished goods and/or demonstrating mastery of time-honored talents including woodworking, blacksmithing, folk pottery, textile crafts, and many others. The outdoor field events give more-adventurous visitors a chance to see how they would fare in the days of old in the mountains, with physical and mental challenges from the past: brute-strength and endurance contests like wood chopping and cross-cut sawing, skill and speed trials like archery and greased-pig chases, and simple schoolyard fun like three-legged races and sack races.
Read on (navigation at left) for information about what's confirmed for this year's event (so far).
DATE — Saturday, October 5, 2013
TIME — 10:00am to 6:00pm
COST — $5 per person, $20 MAX per family
ages 5 & under get in free
LOCATION — Rabun County Civic Center,
on US Hwy. 76 W in Clayton, Georgia
Located in Northeast Georgia's scenic mountain region, along travelers' favorite US Highway 441, Clayton is centrally located less than two hours from Atlanta, GA, Greenville, SC, Asheville, NC, and Knoxville, TN.
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Clayton Tribune
Michael Leonard, Pub.
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Many thanks to the community
friends, organizations, and
businesses who contributed
resources and services to
last year's Festival!
Sheriff Frank Andrews
Appalachian Surveying
Neil & Joanne Bare
Vaughn & Lillie Billinglsey
Blue Ridge Music
City of Clayton
Charity Lane
Clayton Merch./Business Assoc.
Jody Cooley for GA Congress
The Clayton Tribune
Michael Cummings II, LLC
Duvall Automotive Group
Ed Grizzle Insurance Agency
Rutherford "Ruddy" Ellis
First American Bank & Trust
Betsy Fowler
Foxfire Community Board
The Fun Factory
Ledlie Graitcer
Charles & Jacqueline Groover
Holly Henry-Perry
AJ Hollman
Hunter Funeral Home
Wilma Hutcheson-Williams
Jim's Service Center
Mr. & Mrs. Fred Lair
Lake Rabun Fund/NGACF
Jennifer Marcellino/Medlink
Mary "Mac" McManus
Annette Modesto
Rabun County Bank
Rabun Co. Rec. Department
Rabun Gap–Nacoochee School
Reeves Hardware Company
Rotary Club of Clayton
Lessie Smithgall
Southern Grace Pageants
Jane Tomlin
Diane Turner
United Community Bank
Wildcat Football
Shawn Wilson for Sheriff
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