October  2003 


Fall is Here!
Let the Festivals Begin!
And Cavender Creek Cabins is right smack in the middle of it! Looking for the best locale to base your festival "festivities" from? Besides Dahlonega's own events going on this month, there are great events going on just a short drive from us in almost any direction! Make your reservations now as things are booking up fast! Visit the links below for more information on all the great events happening in North Georgia, and don't forget to visit www.CavenderCreek.com!


Starting Out the Festival Month...
And Every Month!!
 Fortunately, every month starts off with one of our favorite events, and if you haven't seen or heard it, you're missing it! The Dahlonega Mountain Music & Medicine Show is always fun, unique, and broadcast live on Gold Country 104.3 with talent coming from all over North Georgia to perform for you! Saturday, October 4th.

Biggest Festival of the Year!
Dahlonega's own Gold Rush Days is the largest arts & crafts festival in the North Georgia Mountains with over 300 arts & crafts booths, traditional mountain festivities such as hog calling, liar’s contest, crosscut sawing, clogging, buck dancing, and bluegrass music. On the Historic Town Square, October 18th & 19th.

To The West...
Ellijay, Georgia celebrates the almighty apple every year with The Georgia Apple Festival which remembers how apple crops saved the area after the cotton bust of the 1920's. Food, arts and crafts and of course every apple product known to man will be there! Oct. 11th & 12th, 18th & 19th.

... To The East
Perhaps the biggest party in Northeast Georgia will be going on all month just east of us as Helen, Georgia celebrates Oktoberfest. Helen was fashioned after Munich, Germany as an Alpine village and goes all out for this festival. If you like beer, bratwurst and oompah music, this is the party for you!

A Screaming Good Time!
Bring the kids!! Every Halloween shop owners on Dahlonega's Historic Square stand by their door fronts and wait for the little trick-or-treaters! This has been a long running tradition in Dahlonega and it's a great time to bring your little ghosts, witches and goblins for an old fashioned Halloween on the Square!

Fall Fun for the Family!
It's this time of year when our friends at Burt's Farm open for fall fun! Choose your own pumpkin among the thousands of differing shapes and sizes at Burt's famous pumpkin patch! Take an old fashioned hay ride along a winding scenic trail. Plus, Indian corn, cornstalks and hay bales are also in never ending supply at the farm. Great fun for the whole family!

Don't Forget:
Etowah Valley Game Preserve
Opening This Month!
This unique addition to Dahlonega provides the best in Quail, Pheasant and Chukar hunting for all ages and abilities! Visit them at www.EtowahValleyGame.com, or give them a call at 706-265-6543.

Area Attractions & Happenings
Follow the links or visit Dahlonega.org for more information on the following Dahlonega Attractions & Happenings.
October 4: Dahlonega Mountain Music & Medicine Show - Live radio broadcast of mountain music, songs, and stories performed by local talent. For more information visit Folkways Center or call 706-867-6710.
October 18 & 19: Gold Rush Days Festival - The largest arts & crafts festival in the NE Georgia mountains with over 300 arts & crafts booths; includes traditional mountain festivities such as hog calling, liar’s contest, crosscut sawing, clogging, buck dancing, and bluegrass music. Historic Town Square.
October 18-19: Auraria Gold Festival - Mountain cooking and entertainment; gold panning and crafts. Located in Auraria, the first gold rush town in the area.
October 23-26: Dahlonega Art Alliance 10th Annual Fall Art Show & Sale - Members of the Dahlonega Art Alliance display original paintings, photographs, sculpture, jewelry, and other fine arts. (800) 231-5543
October 24, 25, 26, 30, 31 and November 1; 8PM except 2PM Sundays : "Little Shop of Horrors" at the Holly Theatre- Come down to Skid Row and have some fun with the Holly Theatre Company as they take you through this campy, thoroughly entertaining, driving comedy that is truly a spoof of a 1950s sci-fi movie. Come and share the adventures of Seymour and his carnivorous singing plant Audrey II as they tell their story to one of the most unique musical theatre scores featuring a lively, hip trio reminiscent of the 50s music we love to move our feet to. (706) 864-3759 or visit www.hollytheatre.com.