43rd Maysville Autumn Leaf festival coming up this weekend
The 43rd annual Maysville Autumn Leaf festival is coming up this weekend, Oct. 1-3, and organizers hope to break a world record for being the “friendliest town.”
The goal is to get in the “Guinness World Book of Records” as the "Friendliest Town in the Nation." In order to do this, the designated “hugee,” must get more than 1,206 hugs in on hour.
Tommy Rainey has been designated as the “hugee” and the effort will take place from 11 a.m. to noon.
The festival will be live entertainment each day, along with craft and food booths. There will be plenty of games and activities for children as well, including hay rides, pony rides and blow up obstacle courses. Other plans include the annual chicken cook off.
The parade will be Saturday at 10 a.m.
The staff and friends of the Maysville Public Library are sponsoring an author meet-n-greet at the library booth on Saturday. Regional authors will offer signed copies of their works.
Among those to be at the booth will be mystery and true-crime author Jaclyn Weldon White, from Braselton. Jackie’s works include “Mockingbird in the Moonlight,” “Whisper to the Black Candle” and “The Empty Nursery.” Other guests include FutureWord Publishing’s R. Anthony Mahan of Alpharetta and author sisters Michelle and Nicole Izmaylov of Atlanta.
Michelle Izmaylov is an award-winning young author who has been called the next J.K. Rowling and sister Nicole recently published her first book entitled ‘Ronnie and BB,’ which was awarded the Georgia Author of the Year Award.
“While visiting the booth, you can purchase baked goods from the best of Maysville kitchens and pick up a copy of the new library cookbook,” organizers state.
Proceeds from the sale will benefit the library’s historic book restoration project.
The Maysville Community Improvement Club and the City of Maysville are sponsoring the festival.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
FRIDAY
Noon Festival opens
5 p.m. Cake walk
7 p.m. Street dance, Athens & Co. and The Gasoline Brothers
8 p.m. Haunted hayride
SATURDAY
9 a.m. Festival opens
10 a.m. Parade
11 a.m. Opening ceremony and hour of hugs
12:30 p.m. Commerce School of Dance
1 p.m. Waulka Mountain
2 p.m. Water balloon toss
2:30 p.m. Maysville’s Got Talent karaoke contest
2:30 p.m. Hoola hoop contest
4 p.m. Maysville’s Got Talent karaoke contest
5 p.m. Cake walk
6 p.m. Smokie J. Jones
7 p.m. Street dance featuring Smoke
8 p.m. Haunted hayride
SUNDAY
Noon Festival opens
1 p.m. Registration
2 p.m. Ricky Fitzpatrick
3 p.m. Regeneration
4 p.m. Dalton Gant
5 p.m. Festival closes
Tommy Rainey has been designated as the “hugee” and the effort will take place from 11 a.m. to noon.
The festival will be live entertainment each day, along with craft and food booths. There will be plenty of games and activities for children as well, including hay rides, pony rides and blow up obstacle courses. Other plans include the annual chicken cook off.
The parade will be Saturday at 10 a.m.
The staff and friends of the Maysville Public Library are sponsoring an author meet-n-greet at the library booth on Saturday. Regional authors will offer signed copies of their works.
Among those to be at the booth will be mystery and true-crime author Jaclyn Weldon White, from Braselton. Jackie’s works include “Mockingbird in the Moonlight,” “Whisper to the Black Candle” and “The Empty Nursery.” Other guests include FutureWord Publishing’s R. Anthony Mahan of Alpharetta and author sisters Michelle and Nicole Izmaylov of Atlanta.
Michelle Izmaylov is an award-winning young author who has been called the next J.K. Rowling and sister Nicole recently published her first book entitled ‘Ronnie and BB,’ which was awarded the Georgia Author of the Year Award.
“While visiting the booth, you can purchase baked goods from the best of Maysville kitchens and pick up a copy of the new library cookbook,” organizers state.
Proceeds from the sale will benefit the library’s historic book restoration project.
The Maysville Community Improvement Club and the City of Maysville are sponsoring the festival.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
FRIDAY
Noon Festival opens
5 p.m. Cake walk
7 p.m. Street dance, Athens & Co. and The Gasoline Brothers
8 p.m. Haunted hayride
SATURDAY
9 a.m. Festival opens
10 a.m. Parade
11 a.m. Opening ceremony and hour of hugs
12:30 p.m. Commerce School of Dance
1 p.m. Waulka Mountain
2 p.m. Water balloon toss
2:30 p.m. Maysville’s Got Talent karaoke contest
2:30 p.m. Hoola hoop contest
4 p.m. Maysville’s Got Talent karaoke contest
5 p.m. Cake walk
6 p.m. Smokie J. Jones
7 p.m. Street dance featuring Smoke
8 p.m. Haunted hayride
SUNDAY
Noon Festival opens
1 p.m. Registration
2 p.m. Ricky Fitzpatrick
3 p.m. Regeneration
4 p.m. Dalton Gant
5 p.m. Festival closes
Defined tags for this entry: Maysville
just dropping by to say many thanks for having me at your festival.It was a great festival in all, it reminds me of home in Broome , Western Australia somehow. I hope ya'll have enjoyed my performance. Looking forward to be there again next year.
Have a nice day.
Smokie J. Jones