The Mountain Music & Medicine Show is about to join beepers, The Partridge Family, Ramblers, Atari Computers, Red Buttons and the American Middle Class. Gone. Over. Kaput. Things of the past. History. <sniff, sniff> Some folks will read this and say, “Shoot! I’m goin’ muddin’ with …
Category: Lake Lanier Activities
25th Annual Lake Lanier Shore Sweep
Shore Sweep 2013 was a tremendous success! For the past 25 years, neighbors have gathered together for the purpose of removing the trash left along the almost 700-mile shoreline of Lake Lanier by less neighborly people who feel it is their right to leave trash …
National Public Lands Day
The U.S. Forest Service will let you wander in the woods of the Chattahoochee and Oconee National Forests for free on Saturday, September 28, 2013, as part of the 20th annual National Public Lands Day. It might be rough to leave Lake Lanier for a day, …
Lake Lanier’s Shore Sweep 2013
The weather will be perfect for this year’s Shore Sweep — 75 degrees and sunny. The folks from the Lake Lanier Association need help scouting out the shoreline in advance of the big day, Saturday, September 28th. If you are available to drive your boat …
Lake Lanier’s Shore Sweep is on September 28, 2013
Volunteers all around Lake Lanier are talking trash! Trash removal, that is. They’re part of Shore Sweep 2013, when tons of trash and debris are removed from Lake Lanier and its shoreline. The 25th Annual Shore Sweep takes place on Saturday, September 28th from 8 …
Clermont Days and Don Carter State Park
Clermont is a sleepy little town most of the year, tucked safely in the foothills in North Georgia. Once a year, however, Clermont transforms into a fall festival wonderland for Clermont Days! Friday afternoon, September 20, 2013, the Clermont Days Centennial Celebration kicks off at 4 …
Right to Hike’s Ella’s 5K & Fun Run: 10-19-13
Our friends at Right to Hike, Inc. hope to see you at their 6th Annual Ella’s 5K & Fun Run, presented by Georgia’s Own Credit Union. This year’s event will be held on Saturday, October 19, 2013, beginning at 9 AM at the Gwinnett Environmental and …
Record Longnose Gar Caught on Lake Lanier
Almost every time I went out on Lake Lanier to catch bass with my friend Don Poole, the world’s worst fisherman, I would hear him yell (in a Southern accent that Goober couldn’t understand), “GAR!!!GAR!!!” At first I thought it was some kind of genetic …
Drowning at Lake Lanier’s Sunset Cove
We regret to inform you of the drowning death of Shaquille Marquise Connor-Blunt, age 20, of College Park, Georgia, on Tuesday, September 17, 2013. According to Melissa Cummings of Georgia’s Department of Natural Resources, Mr. Connor-Blunt and two friends were attempting to swim from the beach …
Historic Sportscar Racing at Road Atlanta
Here’s your big chance to blow the dust off your old car and go racing! No, you cannot race your old beater, but it might get you all the way to Road Atlanta, not far from Chateau Elan in South Hall. This weekend, September 19-22, 2013, …