festival guide
A Supplement to October 21, 22 & 23 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Held at the Georgia Racing Hall of Fame and Dawsonville Main Street Park Presenting Festival Sponsor 55thannual Mountain Moonshine
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MOONSHINE 2022 5 MOONSHINE DISTILLERY HALL OF FAME Support your local 2022 Regular Season Champion Chase Elliott For tickets or more information: 706-216-7223 www.georgiaracinghof.com/moonshine BOOTLEGGERS BAR & MOONSHINE DISTILLERY TOUR DAWSONVILLE HISTORY MUSEUM PERUSE SILENT AUCTION ITEMS FOOD & MORE AUTOGRAPH SESSION WITH HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES Limited number of tickets will be GEORGIA RACING HALL OF FAME Gordon Pirkle Scott Russell BOOTLEGGERS BAR & MOONSHINE DISTILLERY TOUR DAWSONVILLE HISTORY MUSEUM PERUSE SILENT AUCTION ITEMS FOOD & MORE AUTOGRAPH SESSION WITH HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES October 22nd, 1pm to 3pm Limited number of tickets will be GEORGIA HALL Support Regular Bill ElliottGordon Pirkle Gary Dingler Chase For tickets or more information: 706-216-7223 www.georgiaracinghof.com/moonshine Bootleggers Bar & Moonshine Distillery Tour Dawsonville History Museum Peruse Silent Auction Items Food & More BAR & DISTILLERY AUCTION GEORGIA RACING information: 706-216-7223 www.georgiaracinghof.com/moonshine BAR & DISTILLERY DAWSONVILLE MUSEUM AUCTION WITH INDUCTEES GEORGIA RACING HALL OF FAME Dingler BAR & DISTILLERY DAWSONVILLE MUSEUM AUCTION WITH INDUCTEES 3pm will be GEORGIA RACING HALL OF FAME Support your local 2022 Regular Season Champion Dingler Randy Couch Chase Elliott information: 706-216-7223 www.georgiaracinghof.com/moonshine
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Community Bank
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professional, progressive, and proactive service. We shall serve with compassion and respect while seeking solutions to improve quality of life, liberty, and safety for all. We appreciate your support and look forward to continuing to serve you! Sheriff
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Johnson Visit us on Facebook @ Dawson County Sheriff’s Office Dawsonville, Ga www.dawsoncountysheriff.org Non-Emergency 706-344-3636 Tip Line- 706-265-4744 We are proud and honored to serve the Dawson County community. Have a wonderful and safe Moonshine F estival
moonshine festival 2022 schedule
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21ST
• Car Show: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
• Moonshine Run: Departing at 10 a.m. from Bearden’s
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22ND
• Festival: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
• Parade: 9 a.m.
• Car Show: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
• Live entertainment
Shine Stage
11am-12pm TBA
12pm-1pm Chloe Thurman
1pm-2pm Dawsonville Dance Academy
2pm-3pm TBA
3pm-4pm TBA
4pm-5pm JWGriffin
Castleberry Stage
11am-12:20pm Right Turn Clyde
12:30pm-2pm Arkangels
2pm-3:30pm Jukebox Caper
3:30pm-5pm Gina Gailey and Band
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23RD
• Festival: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
• Car Show: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
• Live entertainment
Shine Stage
12pm-1pm TBA
1pm-2pm Olivia Harben
2pm-3pm Julieete Chryssos
3pm-4pm Randy and Cindy Richards
Castleberry Stage
11am-12pm One Community One God
12pm-1:30pm TBA
1:30pm-3pm Inconceivable
3pm-4:30pm Lowdown Rival
• No pets allowed, golf carts not permitted.
• RV parking available.
• Scooter rentals available for rental on Allen Street.
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check out the vendors
Adoornables
Appalachian Growers
Arise Family Chiropractic
Artistically Wired
B&D Sweatman Enterprise, Inc. aka: Blueberry Garden’s Baggage Claim
Bandy’s Bandanas
Bea’s Bling (Paparazzi)
Beartooth Works, LLC
Bebo’s Grill
Bohanan & Gee Elite Realty Britt’s Leather
Broad Essentials Inc.
Bubblebs.com
Cakes Unique
Cape Woolamai Mercantile
Cathys Caps and Crafts
Celebrate Recovery at CrossBridge Chattahoochee Candles
Checkered Flag Catering/ Dawsonville Pool Room
Choose Joy LLC
Cindy’s Cafe & Corks
Clay Creations Brands LLC
Clean Stitches
CM Bars dba Chocolate Moonshine
Color Street Nails
Crawford’s Creations Crockett creek jerky
Dawsonville Civitan Club
Days Gone By LLC
DeeDee’s PZ
DJ Designs & Beeloved Art Doodle Donuts
DTD
Edge Roofing
Elemental Rocks and Herbs
Empty Jar Creations
Forever Bows Boutique Frog Fidgets and KCDesigns
Georgia Automobile Racing Hall of Fame Assoc.
God’s Country Camo LLC
Granny’s Apple Dumplings
Grassroots America First Grown Wild Food Company Guttergard South
Guys with Bling Paparazzi Happy Belly
HB Enterprises USA Heavens Sweet Tooth Hillbilly Cafe Hinson Synthetics - AMSOIL Hoff’s Grill
Hometown Heating and Air Independence Craftworks Insurance Fiduciary Island Airbrush
J & J Concessions
Joleigh’s Hope Designs K-9 Trading Company Kandie’s Korn, LLC Knives & Such LambCo & Designs
LeafFilter North, LLC
Lila Jane Designs Lilla Rose
Lisa’s Gifts and Apparel Lock Stock and Barrel Custom Furniture L Lularoe
Mad Mike’s Tumblers
Magnanimous Beard Products Mary Kay
Mary’s Pretty Nails
Modern Woodmen of America
MUSE by Tracy Ninny’s North Georgia Wood Creations North Georgia Metals
One Community One God Pineapple Island Pistols N Pearls Jewelry
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Preacher Jones Moonshine
Pure Romance
R-Ranch in the Mountains
Royal Mack Enterprises LLC
Sassy Rose & Co.
Secret Springs Studio
Show Place Grill
Sons of Confederate Veterans Southern Showcase
Southern Vine Studio 28 Skin & Brows
Tacy Insurance Agency
Ten Point Boutique
The Curio Coop
The Hickory Nut
The Outdoor Store
The Vintage Trunk LLC
Tilina Marke Key Enterprises LLC
To DIY For Designs
Top Tier Roofing
Tupperware
Unforgettable Inspirations
Veteran Leather LLC
Vinyl Hound Music
We Honor Apparel
Whiskey, Wine & Design
Wild Sage Native American Jewelry
Wreath Designs and More by Jackie Mac Write On
Xclusiv’HandBags And Accessories
Zion Christian Assembly
The Purple Corn Boutique Crafty Cookie Crafts
BD Hitch
Angie Gonyo
Joan Jones
Tracy Peters Heidi Kerans
Jameson Gregg Rachel Floyd Jaye Morris
Evelyn Padgett Tim Evans Kenny Anglin Donny Jordan
Rebecca Hyde
Gail Payne
Eddie Ray Jean France Kelly Porter
Pamela Yeargin Karen Nichols
Sharon Mumbi Taylor Rutledge Ansley Barclay Dale Smart Dawson County GOP Mike Allen
Cassandra DeLuca Richard Schwab Cindy Collins Phil Anderson Kathy Arkin Melissa Flynn Laura Hilly Pam Farris
Phillip Booth
Grace Johnson Tracy Cavaness Susan Moore
Kenneth Perry Perry’s Birdhouses
Dustin Landers Fonda Johnson Mark French
Karen Armstrong Gina Widholm Becky Reid
BeaJay Warren Sandi Ethridge Stephanie Doty Shana Norrell
Amy Massey
Joni Shoemaker
North Georgia Mountains Chapter 970, Vietnam Veterans of America
Vickie Stallings
Mike Doherty Dania Davern Michael Roper Dawson County News
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Donnie Allison
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Grand Marshal OF THE 55TH ANNUAL MOUNTAIN MOONSHINE FESTIVAL
By Erica Jones
Leading the way this year as the Grand Marshal of the Moonshine Festival is NAS CAR legend Donnie Allison. Allison was born in 1939 and is one of the founding mem bers of the “Alabama Gang,” a group of NASCAR drivers out of Hueytown, Alabama, togeth er with his brother, Bobby Al lison, who has served as grand marshal for the event in the past, and Red Farmer.
Donnie Allison raced in the NASCAR Grand National/Winston Cup circuit and took home 10 wins during his racing career, which spanned from 1966 to 1988. He has 78 top-five finishes and was inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in 2009.
One of the races Allison is best known for is the 1979 Daytona 500 race, when a final-lap crash took the win away from Allison and caused a fight with fellow racer Cale Yarborough. The fight made headlines across America, and the subsequent publicity was instrumen tal in making NASCAR what it is today.
As the Grand Marshal does each year, Allison will lead the parade on Saturday, Oct. 22, preceding the event’s opening ceremonies.
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moonshine inductees
Duane “Skeeter” Fields
JULY 1, 1934 – MARCH 12, 1974
Skeeter Fields made liquor in Dawson, Lump kin and surrounding counties. He was known as an “expert” in making the liquor most efficiently (using less sugar) and, for this reason, he got the big jobs. One night the revenuers showed up at his house, he hid under the bed and when they came back the next morning, he ran barefooted on icy, frozen fields to get away. Later he did get caught and served a short time. Skeeter was killed in a car wreck about 2 weeks after he got out of prison.
Ted Bauguess TRAPHILL, N.C.
Ted was born and raised in Traphill, N.C. Ted dropped out of school after the 10th grade and followed in his father’s footsteps in the moonshine business. Ted’s first arrest was during a raid on a moonshine still in 1951 when he was only 16 years old. He was arrested 4 or 5 more times before his final arrest in 1969 for selling moonshine to an undercover ATF agent. Ted was married and has a son and two daughters before he was killed in a car crash in 1976 at the young age of 40.
Tommy “Catfish” Davis
JUNE 15, 1933 – JAN. 22, 2013
Because Tommy’s parents died when he was 5 years old, he and his siblings were split up and raised by relatives. This led Tommy to make moonshine to survive. He was caught and arrested three times. For the first two arrests, he served time in jail. He received probation for the third arrest because he had established a family. The parole officer got him a job cutting timber which led to a career. Tommy always found time to make a little liquor up until his death in 2013.
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volunteer efforts
ARE KEY DURING THE MOUNTAIN MOONSHINE FESTIVAL
by Julia Fechter
Behind every part of the annual Mountain Moon shine Festival are the hands of dozens of volunteers that help nonprofit K.A.R.E. for Kids operate the event.
Whether it’s managing the parade, the car show or other aspects, volunteers help with all kinds of respon sibilities during the three-day festival, which attracts thousands of attendees each year.
But the festival isn’t where the help ends. More vol unteers are needed to help shop for and deliver Christ mas gifts to local children that the festival supports. DCN talked to K.A.R.E For Kids volunteers for more insight into what it takes to make the festival and holiday endeavors a success.
Name: Walt Simonds (volunteers with grandson)
Q: How long have you been volunteering and why did you get involved with K.A.R.E. for Kids?
A: “I’ve been [helping] with the car show part of it since 2007. I have a couple antiques or classic cars, so I’ve just helped with the car show.”
Q: What are you most excited about with the upcom ing festival and holiday season?
A: “Just the moonshine festival coming up, [since] it’s the only thing I’m involved with…and the Ford Galaxies. [We’re] trying to get a few of them at the show.”
Q: What does it mean to you to know that you’re help ing to provide children with a better Christmas?
A: “That’s the whole point of the Moonshine Festival is to raise money and make sure the kids who need to have a good Christmas [get just that]. Every kid deserves a nice Christmas, so it’s a way to support them.”
Name: Brian Bliss (volunteers with wife and children)
Q: How long have you been volunteering and why did you get involved with K.A.R.E. for Kids?
A: “It’s probably been about 11-12 years.... I kind of pulled [my wife] in. The Boy Scouts had gotten us introduced [to helping]. We’ve always helped with the parking. For the last five years, we’ve helped with setup – moving barriers and getting the streets ready.”
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Q: What are you most excited about with the upcom ing festival and holiday season?
A: “It’s a lot of fun for local families as well as tourists… and I know my kids really enjoy the festival food.”
Q: What does it mean to you to know that you’re help ing to provide children with a better Christmas?
A: “It’s a great blessing to the community, the amount of work that K.A.R.E. does for the children with the Christmas presents. They do a great job managing the events and the benefits to the community as well.”
Name: Rodney Padgett (volunteers with his three grandsons)
Q: How long have you been volunteering and why did you get involved with K.A.R.E. for Kids?
A: “We’ve been [doing it] at least 12-14 years. I’m with the Cub Scout Pack 133. We sell the biscuits for them, and that’s part of the fundraiser. Troop 109 helps put barricades up.”
Q: What are you most excited about with the upcom ing festival and holiday season?
A: “It’s a good thing for all the kids…and the commu nity. That’s what I like about it.”
Q: What does it mean to you to know that you’re help ing to provide children with a better Christmas?
A: “I think it’s a fine thing. Lots of kids in the county would go without [gifts] without them [K.A.R.E]. I’m proud to help work with it.”
Name: Robin Wyatt
Q: How long have you been volunteering and why did you get involved with K.A.R.E. for Kids?
A: “It’s my third year helping… my best friend is actually on the [K.A.R.E.] board. At the K.A.R.E. tent (by the racing hall), we sell the old and new shirts and the other knick-knacks.”
Q: What are you most excited about with the upcoming festival and holiday season?
A: “I’m looking forward to meeting all the different people of Dawson and surrounding counties, [meet ing] the volunteers and then raising the money to help needy families in Dawson County.”
Q: What does it mean to you to know that you’re help ing to provide children with a better Christmas?
A: “I don’t think people realize how much K.A.R.E. for Kids does for the community and families…and they’ve (K.A.R.E) helped me before, so I felt like I needed to give back since they’ve helped me numerous times.”
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K.A.R.E. for Kids, Inc. Christmas Application
If you have any questions concerning K.A.R.E. for Kids. please call 706-216-KARE (5273) or email us at KAREFORKIDSCHRISTMAS@GMAIL.COM
Will be accepting applications for assistance for the 2022 Christ mas season at: 66 Hwy 53 WEST • Dawsonville, GA 30534 (Old City Hall building across from City Liquor)
Thursday, Octboer 27th 2pm-7pm Tuesday, November 1st 11am-4pm
Thursday, November 3rd 2pm-7pm Tuesday, November 8th 11am-4pm Thursday, November 10th 2pm-7pm Saturday, November 12th 10am-2pm Tuesday, November 15th 11am-4pm Thursday, November 17th 2pm-7pm Tuesday, November 29th 11am-4pm
You must bring copies of each of the following with you for us to accept your application:
• GA drivers license OR State ID
• Proof of residency (utility bill, lease agreement, property tax statement, tax return)
• School report card (if child(ren) is of school age) or Birth Certificate if not school age
• Documentation from Daycare or Preschool in the County
• Income Verification for last 2 months for ALL persons employed in the household.
• Court documents if you are the Guardian of the child(ren).
You will need to know:
• Your child(ren)’s EXACT clothes and shoe sizes
• Specific clothing needs for your child(ren)
• 3 Wish list items that your child(ren) would like for Christmas
In order to qualify for assistance, you must meet ALL of the following requirements:
• You must live full-time in Dawson County along with your child(ren) that you are applying for assistance for. Your child(ren) must live with you.
• If your child(ren) is school aged, they must attend Dawson County schools.
• Your child(ren) must be school age or younger.
• You must not receive assistance from any other agency for this Christmas season.
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