Gainesville, Georgia, was formerly known as “Mule Camp Springs.” According to one legend, the name was changed when men could not find wives who wanted to live in a place called “Mule Camp Springs” — not even on Hog Mountain Road — so they changed the …
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Suches Life: Indian Summer Festival 2012
Suches is such a cool place. Locals call it “The Valley Above the Clouds.” I call it heaven. The weekend of October 6th & 7th is the perfect excuse to purchase a motorcycle and ride it to the Indian Summer Festival smack dab in the middle …
Right to Hike’s 5th Annual Ella’s Run
Right to Hike, Inc. (RTH) is one of our favorite non-profit organizations. Right to Hike was founded to honor Meredith Hope Emerson, who lost her life while hiking Blood Mountain in North Georgia on New Year’s Day 2008. The primary goals of RTH are to contribute to the things Meredith …
Taste of Gainesville Pictures
Only one thing could have improved Saturday night’s Taste of Gainesville: $100 bills falling from the sky. Perfect doesn’t adequately describe the evening. The combination of fabulous food, the world-renowned Olympic rowing venue on Lake Lanier, glorious weather and scads of fun people … added up to a better-than- …
Fun Stuff for the First Weekend of Autumn
Kiss summer goodbye and give autumn a big hug. Celebrate the end of too hot weather and seriously bad hair days. There are a million cool ways to have fun, but if you’re wondering what to do we have a few suggestions. Living Dead Dash …
Taste of Gainesville — Lake Lanier’s Favorite Feast
Forget football — are you ready for some feasting? You’re invited to join the Chattahoochee Cannibals (relax … it’s an “oldies” band) and other hungry folks for the 14th Annual Taste of Gainesville shindig. The Lake Lanier Rowing Club hosts this fabulous event to raise money …
The Mountain Music Festival at Vogel State Park on 9-8-12
One of the best times to visit Vogel State Park — 233 of North Georgia’s most beautiful acres in the mountains — will be on Saturday, October 8, 2012, from 10 AM until 5 PM. That’s the date for this year’s Mountain Music and Arts & Craft …
Skogies — Fine Enough Dining on Lake Lanier
The one thing that Lake Lanier needs — besides more water — is more lakeside restaurants. Skogies Lakeside Restaurant on Lake Lanier gets my vote for the best waterfront eatery on the north end of the lake … maybe the entire lake. My visit was …
GarlicFest in Cleveland
Guys … are you wondering where to woo your honey this weekend? Maybe somewhere you-know-who never took her? Here’s your big chance! Head north to Cleveland and spend the day at LoganBerry Heritage Farm celebrating the garlic harvest at GarlicFest! (Laugh, but if you Google …
Prince Brothers’ Memorial Motorcycle Ride August 11th
The weather is looking good for “Rumble in the Streets” — a police-escorted motorcycle ride and Classic Car Cruise-In to benefit the Griffin & Jake Prince Memorial Fund — on Saturday, August 11, 2012. Griffin & Jake are the brothers who perished in a boating accident on Lake …