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This Weekend in Georgia
October 28 - October 30, 2011

In This Issue This Weekend Fairs and Festivals

Welcome to Georgia Tourism's weekly newsletter! Our "This Weekend in Georgia" newsletter offers ideas for quick getaways or extended vacations. Visit www.ExploreGeorgia.org to
learn more about happenings around the state.

Halloween Don't Break the Bank Celebrate Halloween

Savannah Film Festival
Savannah, GA Saturday, October 29th - Saturday, November 5th The annual Savannah Film Festival presents a full range of cinematic creativity from both awardwinning professionals and emerging student filmmakers. Panel discussions and presentations by visiting artists offer movie buffs the unique opportunity to experience the art of film while interacting one-on-one with their favorite filmmakers.

Keep reading to find out about some of the fun events that are happening this Halloween weekend.
Georgia State Parks

11th Annual Henry County Rodeo
Hampton, GA Friday, October 28th Saturday, October 29th This event will have something for everyone to enjoy! The fun festivities will include bareback, steer wrestling, cowgirls, barrel racing, calf roping, saddle bronc, breakaway roping, team roping, bull riding and kids calf scramble.

Check the Georgia State Parks' Last
Minute Availability
page to see which lodge rooms, cottages, yurts, campsites, picnic shelters and group shelters are available for the upcoming weekend.

1st Annual Fall Motorcycle Show
Eastman, GA Saturday, October 29th Enjoy a motorcycle parade, food vendors, arts and crafts vendors, live music by Tymbral and the Rocky Creek Band and Eastman's merchants and eateries. Win one of 17 trophies in five classes, or take part in the Motor Masquerade Contest.
Black Pot Cookin'
Jefferson, GA Saturday, October 29th Spend a day at the Shields-Ethridge Heritage Farm to see cooking the way it used to be. Enjoy chicken and dumplings, beans, collard and turnip greens, cornbread, sweet potatoes and a variety of fruit cobblers. Farm buildings, including the working gristmill, cotton gin, and restored school house, will be open.

SCAD Museum of Art Reopening
Savannah, GA Saturday, October 29th The Savannah College of Art and Design is poised to unveil the newly expanded and re-imagined SCAD Museum of Art, a world-class contemporary art museum designed expressly to elevate art and design education for SCAD students and art lovers around the world.

Fairs and Festivals
Newell Lodge Bluegrass Festival
Folkston, GA Friday, October 28th - Saturday, October 29th
Briar Patch Arts Festival
Eatonton, GA Saturday, October 29th
Georgia Sweet Potato Festival
Ocilla, GA Saturday, October 29th
Beaver Creek Festival
Montezuma, GA Saturday, October 29th
Perry Music Festival
Perry, GA Saturday, October 29th
12th Annual Fall Festival
Eastman, GA Saturday, October 29th
4th Annual Fall Festival at Nash Farm Battlefield
Hampton, GA Saturday, October 29th
Harvest Festival
Toccoa, GA Saturday, October 29th - 10/30/2011

Hunter Cattle Fall Farm Day
Brooklet, GA Saturday, October 29th
Celebrate Halloween
Springer Ghost Tours
Columbus, GA Now - Monday, October 31st
Zombie Apocalypse Survival Camp
Augusta, GA Now - Saturday, October 29th
SCREAMERS Haunted House
Cartersville, GA Thursday, October 27th - Monday, October 31st
A Tour of Southern Ghosts
Stone Mountain, GA Thursday, October 27th - Sunday, October 30th
Halloween Horror Putt Putt
Blue Ridge, GA Thursday, October 27th - Saturday, October 29th
Scare in the Boro
Statesboro, GA Friday, October 28th - Monday, October 31st
Haunted House at Reed Bingham
Adel, GA Friday, October 28th - Saturday, October 29th
Haunted Maze at Uncle Shuck's Corn Maze

Dawsonville, GA Friday, October 28th - Saturday, October 29th
Halloween in Ghost Town
Bremen, GA Friday, October 28th - Saturday, October 29th
The Haunted Trail at Roosevelt Stables
Pine Mountain, GA Friday, October 28th - Saturday, October 29th
Halloween Zipping
Lula, GA Friday, October 28th - Monday, October 31st
Uncle Bob's Pumpkin Patch
Newnan, GA Friday, October 28th - Sunday, November 6th
Haunted Hills Hayride at Victoria Bryant State Park
Royston, GA Friday, October 28th - Saturday, October 29th
Halloween Hayrides and Haunts
Alpharetta, GA Saturday, October 29th
Goblin Gallop presented by Piedmont Healthcare
Locust Grove, GA Saturday, October 29th
Hometown Halloween on the Square
Blairsville, GA Saturday, October 29th
Halloween Festival at George T. Bagby State Park

Fort Gaines, GA Saturday, October 29th
HalloWINE Celebration
Dahlonega, GA Saturday, October 29th - Sunday, October 30th
Ghost and History Walk at the Marsh House
Lafayette, GA Saturday, October 29th
Haunted History Tours at Bell, Book & Candle
Mcdonough, GA Saturday, October 29th
Haunted Tales at Seminole State Park
Donalsonville, GA Saturday, October 29th
Haunted History Tours
Rome, GA Saturday, October 29th
Big Hair Ball
Hartwell, GA Saturday, October 29th
Scarecrow Village
Locust Grove, GA Sunday, October 30th
Hartwell Ghost Walk
Hartwell, GA Sunday, October 30th

Don't Break the Bank
This year we will feature ideas from the article "100 Ways to Woo Your Special Someone Without Breaking the Bank," featured in the 2011 Georgia Travel Guide. If you can't wait for next weekend's newsletter to get more ideas, download your copy of the Travel Guide today.
#23: Take the Moonlight Music Cruise on the Augusta Canal. Cruise on an uncovered boat to live music from blues to bluegrass. Bring refreshments and relax under the night sky.
For more things to do this weekend, check out ExploreGeorgia.org!
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