Small Town America

We are from a small town (population 607), so we love and appreciate small towns and small town festivals.  While camping this past weekend, we drove though Martin, GA (population 311 based on what we could find out) and stumbled on their fall festival.  What a terrific event and we thought we would share a couple of pictures:

Normally, there is no traffic here, but the sides of Main Street were covered with parked cars. And traffic was slowed with non-car traffic.

Isn't this just picture perfect?

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18 Responses to Small Town America
  1. Martha and Bailey
    November 3, 2010 | 4:03 am

    Looks delightful. In the UK small towns often have Gala Days – usually in the summer months. They are always lots of fun.
    Beautiful horses!
    xx

  2. Wild Dingo
    November 3, 2010 | 4:36 am

    yes it is! I thought I lived in a small town now… really the villages here in CH are, um, well, let’s just say in MY town the main attraction is the post office. there’s a restaurant too somewhere but i can’t find it. but that’s it.

  3. Houndstooth
    November 3, 2010 | 7:04 am

    It’s what I love about living in our small town! Every year our town festival has the best parade. And yes, we do occasionally see horses just being ridden down the street. That picture is great!

  4. Tucker and Daisy
    November 3, 2010 | 8:19 am

    Hi Herd

    How big were those big dogs? Our Mom is trying to decide what breed they are.

    Tucker and Daisy

  5. Life With Dogs
    November 3, 2010 | 8:40 am

    Wow! I thought our town was small at 3k. Love this – it’s a perfect little slice of small town America.

  6. KB
    November 3, 2010 | 9:47 am

    It looks like fun! Our town is small but not small! No dogs in this post? A travesty…

  7. KB
    November 3, 2010 | 9:48 am

    My comment was supposed to say “not *that* small”!

  8. Cheryl, Indiana, Shingo & Molly
    November 3, 2010 | 10:19 am

    Great shots!! Are those Clydesdales?

    Happy Wednesday!
    Woofs and Kisses!
    The Fiesty Three

  9. MAXMOM
    November 3, 2010 | 12:37 pm

    How wonderful!!…really wonderful!!!
    I so wish I wasn’t living in the city.
    Sending lotsaluv
    MAXMOM IN SA

  10. moo & jack
    November 3, 2010 | 1:01 pm

    Woo! those are some really really big pups!
    fabulous photo!

    jack & moo

  11. Ryker
    November 3, 2010 | 1:35 pm

    Very lovely. Someday we hope to move to a smaller town. Our town used to be small but has grown so much it feels like a big city now.

  12. The OP Pack
    November 3, 2010 | 2:36 pm

    The small towns always do the nicest things. Our Dad comes from a small rural town and they always have great fun and festive times. Those Big Dogs are beautiful.

    Woos ~ Phantom, Thunder, and Ciara

  13. Khyra
    November 3, 2010 | 3:14 pm

    Well, that last pikhture would be more perfekht with some SIBES working!

    Hugz&Khysses,
    Khyra

  14. Samantha
    November 3, 2010 | 6:47 pm

    I love it when we come across things like this, it is cool seeing events going on in other towns.

  15. The Luke
    November 3, 2010 | 8:22 pm

    I love small towns and those festivals are BIG fun! The Mom says she misses those days…

    Fanks for sharin the pitchers! The Herd sure knows how to have fun wif the weekend campin trips and such!

    wif love from the Luke

    P.S. That is one HUGE sled!

  16. Kari
    November 3, 2010 | 8:47 pm

    Those remind me of the summer festival in my moms hometown :)

    Kari
    http://dogisgodinreverse.com/

  17. Kit
    November 5, 2010 | 9:30 pm

    I love Martin too!
    You were very close to us!
    ~K

  18. Sagira
    November 7, 2010 | 1:12 am

    I love finding things like this…how neat!

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