Spring Place Festival
Set for August 17
The 15th annual Spring Place Community Festival will be held
Saturday, August 17 at the Old Spring Place Methodist Church just off Georgia Highway
225 South. Sponsored by the Spring Place
Ruritan Club and the Whitfield-Murray Historical Society, the Festival commemorates
Spring Place’s heritage and raises funds for the continued preservation of the
Old Spring Place Methodist Church.
The theme this year is “Spring Place: A Legacy in Education” and will feature a
special display of pictures, paintings, and memorbelia relating to the various
schools that were eventually consolidated into Spring Place Elementary—as well
as a sort of reunion for those who attended those schools. (See related
article.) A raffle of a framed artist
print of the famous “Lucy Hill Institute” by the late Erik Gallman will
conclude the Festival’s activities.
The festival will open at 8 am and will have something for
everyone. Members of the Ruritan Club will have their usual bake sale with
homemade cakes of all kinds. Breakfast biscuits and lunchtime hotdog plates are
among other items being sold to raise funds to maintain the old church. A large
assortment of “new” and used books, historical society publications,
collectibles, and flea market items including Christmas decorations, linens, glassware,
toys, office and household items attract buyers as well. The flea market will
also include clothes again this year, too.
The largest fundraising event is an auction set to begin at
10:00 a.m. Things to be auctioned include several artist prints; gift certificates
to area businesses including Little Rome, Big V, The Biscuit Box, Zaxby’s, The
Crème Hut, Pork n Beans, Los Amigos, Paul’s Dive-In, and John’s Bar B Que; sets
of local history books; furniture; coin sets; and rugs donated by Value and
Beckler Carpets.
The MCHS Alumni Association will have rock building post cards,
notecards, and prints for sale while a variety of vendors will sell jewelry,
crafts, and specialty items. Friends of Linda Lunsford will have a booth to
raise money to help this beloved Murray County educator receive a kidney
transplant, too. First National Bank, The
Spring Place Ruritan Club, the Chatsworth-Murray County Library, Go Murray
County Arts, The Humane Society, the Murray County Gideons Camp, and Keep
Murray Beautiful Commission will have information tables while the Boy Scouts
will be on hand to help with parking and other activities. An assortment of historical items will also
be on display including original doors from the old courthouse at Spring Place. That building later served as a school longer
than is was used as a courthouse! It was
the home of Lucy Hill High School.
Parking will be available on Elm Street as well as across
the road from the church. To find out
more about the festival, call Elizabeth Robinson at 706-695- 6021Carlton
McDaniel at 706-695-2110, Jyana and Chuck Smith
at 706-695-8297, or Tim Howard at 706-695-2740.
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