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Published Saturday, September 04, 2010 in Local
Photo by Jeffrey Leo
Left, Susan Calderwood and her husband, Lyle, who sell custom-embroidered aprons, set up shop on Friday at the Powers’ Festival grounds in west Coweta. Right, James Sizemore helps set up his family’s pottery booth at the Powers’ Festival Friday afternoon. His parents, Dale and Nancy, are long-time exhibitors and Coweta educators.
Annual festival begins 3-day run
The Newnan Times-Herald
The 40th annual Powers' Festival kicks off today at 9 a.m. and continues until 5 p.m. Monday.
Located on the grounds of the historic Powers' plantation, just off Ga. Hwy. 34 West near the Coweta/Heard county line, the festival showcases fine arts and crafts, heritage crafts, demonstrations, food and entertainment.
Admission is $7; children under 5 enter free. Parking for the festival is also free.
The event is hosted each year by Coweta Festivals Inc., which consists of five nonprofit organizations: the Newnan-Coweta Art Association, the Coweta County 4-H Club, the Newnan-Coweta Chamber of Commerce, The Pilot Club of Newnan and the Newnan-Coweta Jaycees.
The profits from the festival are distributed to the five groups, who then give back the proceeds to the community in various ways.
But members of Coweta Festivals aren't the only area nonprofits who benefit from the Powers' Festival.
Organizations and churches from Coweta and Heard counties cook up the majority of the food for sale at Powers'.
Probably the most famous is Mt. Carmel United Methodist Church, which serves beans, greens and other traditional Southern food cooked in huge kettles over open fires. There are also the famous sausage biscuits of Elim Baptist Church, as well as funnel cakes, fried pies, and all sorts of festival food from various groups.
Many of the Coweta Festivals groups get in on the cooking, too. The 4-H barbecue chicken is a Powers' tradition, and the Jaycees hamburgers win rave reviews each year as well.
For the past few months, the Coweta County 4-H Livestock Club, the Coweta Poultry Club, and the Horse and Pony Club have been busy cleaning and painting the children's area for Powers' Festival.
Hopes are that Clover Country -- the new name for the children's area -- will spotlight the great 4-H programs offered in Coweta County. The 4-H'ers have learned how to paint and dig fence post holes. The age range for the young people in the Livestock Club is 15 months to 18 years old, and the programs 4-H offers to the youth of Coweta help build self-esteem and leadership skills.
More than 100 exhibitors were busy Friday setting up their display booths along the tree-lined paths that have welcomed festival-goers since 1971.
The festival location is 4766 West Highway 34, Newnan, GA 30263, which is 12 miles west of Newnan. Information can also be found at the website, www.powersfestival.org
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The 2nd day was even more spectacular than the first!!! The changes are seen everywhere. The artists are fabulous. The food is great. Our own local little-girl-made-good Rachel Starnes has grown an incredible garden of followers. The crowds were awesome.They told us it was going to be great and it was! I'm sold.
Posted by slick willie at 9:23 PM
What an opening day it was!...there are obvious changes in management at this show and it shows in the quality of the festival in all areas...no junk or buy/sell items were noted, as was prevalent over the last 3 years of the former directors reign ..the weather was picture perfect, there are new and returning foods that are ever so tasty, the varied entertainment is fun and interesting, along with special performances on the guest stage by local recording artist, Rachel Starnes...but mainly, a majority of the fine artists and fine crafters are new, top notch and very pleased with their first day of sales....good for you Powers' for making some much needed changes, you are on your way back of climbing to the quality art festival you have been known for over the last 30+ years.....Happy 40th Anniversary and good luck over the next 2 days!
Posted by A Powers' Customer of 30+ years.... at 1:04 AM
Clover Country is beautiful, please stop by while at the crossroads, the children will be very surprised, even me, Mother Goose, will be there reading and entertaining
Posted by Janice Sibley at 11:58 AM
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I went back today for more stuff....and I stopped in Clover Country to see "Mother Goose"...what an incredible job the Coweta 4-H kids have done in resurrecting the kids area!!!....the pony and train rides seem to also be a hit!!...there are a couple of new bands playing tomorrow so I think I'll go back and check them out too...good thing I bought my presale tickets at Dogwood Vet Hospital last week...and I don't mind at all paying to get in everyday, it's just going back into the community!!
Posted by A Powers Customer of 30+ years..... at 10:26 PM