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Vol. 8, No. 3 H July 2024
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Celebrate July 4 in Newnan Parade ✮ Car Show ✮ Live Music ✮ Fireworks. Look inside for details. th
1st Friday in Tyrone ✮ July 5th Food, Fun and The Steed Brothers at Shamrock Park Senoia Farmers’ Market Every Saturday! Main Street Newnan’s Market Day ✮ July 6th Coweta County Senior Services Summer Luncheon July 10th and 11th Summer NewnaNights ✮ July 11th Dockside Concert at Arnall Grocery Co. ✮ July 13th at 6 p.m. Live bluegrass music and free food! Bring family and friends for a local hangout in Downtown Newnan - 32 E Washington St. Senoia Alive After 5 ✮ July 19th with Kris Youmans & Her Might Fine Band Peachtree City Sunset Sounds ✮ July 19th Sharpsburg Market ✮ July 20th
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Southern LitFest 2024: Where Literature, Nature and Art Intersect
Out & About with Katie Anderson
Newnan Carnegie Library held its third Southern LitFest in June (7-8), to the delight of packed crowds and venues. Director Susan Crutchfield said that this event is the largest fundraiser of the year for the Newnan Carnegie Library Foundation. They were excited to partner with the Newnan Cultural Arts Commission this year. “If you attend a Carnegie or Cultural Arts Commission event, it might not have happened without Southern LitFest!” she commented. The festivities kicked off on Friday night with Hometown Novel Night, Unplugged, where 40 regional authors gathered on the Square, with DJ Alan Ray performing. The kickoff was co-hosted by Hometown Novel Writers Association. Saturday morning, Newnan Theatre Company’s “Children’s Academy Kids” wrote, designed, and produced an adaptation of Aesop’s Fables for Newnan’s children. The 2024 theme for Southern LitFest was “Unplugged.” “Based on the theme, we had a couple of key authors we wanted to invite and then we found others that fit the theme,” said Crutchfield. This year’s LitFest authors converged where literature, nature, and art intersect: Chattahoochee’s First Riverkeeper Sally Bethea
Sally Bethea chronicled some of her tales from her book Keeping
Music & Jeep Fest at Ashley Park ✮ July 20th with John Hensley Band and Kris Youmans Band STAR 2024: Shrek the Musical ✮ July 26-28th at The Nixon Centre.
Sean Dietrich pictured with NCAC’s Joe Arnotti the Chattahoochee. There was a time, not long ago, when our very own Chattahoochee River was so polluted, no one would get near it. Bethea and the Chattahoochee Riverkeeper organization successfully took the City of Atlanta to court in the mid 90s, and worked with a bipartisan group of Atlanta leaders (including Shirley Franklin and Newt Gingrich) to make improvements. She recounted the story of Junior Errington, of Franklin, GA, who remembered when he could drink from a crystal clean Chattahoochee of yesteryear. In her book, she wanted to tell the story of the river, but also of the people who live in the watershed.
Back to School Bash & Backpacks Giveaway ✮ July 27th 1 to 4 p.m. Caring Hearts of Georgia Health Services 160 Martin Luther King Jr Dr
Gwen Roland, author of Atchafalaya Houseboat: My Years in the Louisiana Swamp
Newnan High School Grand Opening ✮ July 28th 2 to 4 p.m.
Roland regaled the audience with stories of what her life off the grid was like in the 70s. Roland abandoned her doctorate when she felt it wasn’t her calling, and decided to live off the land in Louisiana’s Atchafalaya River Basin Swamp. She and her then-
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