Rockmart gears up for Homespun Festival

Cheryl, are you the lady from Long Island, NY? I was hoping you are still doing your ceramic pieces? You never sent out a mailing with your new address. I would LOVE to purchase some more of your work!

Is this only once a year? I can't find much info about it for some friends who will be cycling thru Rockmart. They love community festivals!

It's in mid-July and hotter than Hades! And always seems to rain. good luck finding any info.

you're right it's a horrible time of the year, but they will never change it

It is an annual festival with arts and crafts, good food (beginning with an awesome breakfast at the Methodist Church just across the street)including bar-b-q, funnel cakes (downtown restaurants are also open), music, local performers (bands, dance groups, etc.), a rubber duck race, car show, games and other things for kids (those jumping thingys, they have had a climbing wall, etc.) and it is held in a shaded park with a big creek running alongside (kids enjoy a dip in that as well). Saturday night ends with a fireworks extravaganza. The Silver Comet Trail runs just alongside the park where this is held. We go every year and it is good fun.

Kids swimming in the creek in their clothes - what a vision every year.

The breakfast last year at the church sucked. What happened?

Oh good, Lots of revenue for the city. People always park where they shouldn't.

aragon mom wrote:

Kids swimming in the creek in their clothes - what a vision every year.
The breakfast last year at the church sucked. What happened?

No one says you MUST eat breakfast at the church. You can graze if you've a mind to. As for kids in the creek in their clothes -- where did you grow up?? I grew up in an exclusive are of Atlanta and we used to go in the creek in our clothes and it was great fun -- kids are kids -- they love doing things that we may not find so appealing anymore. Why so negative???? Sounds like you are a miserable person.

Rockmart Cop wrote:

Oh good, Lots of revenue for the city. People always park where they shouldn't.

Cop, I truly appreciate the job our law enforcement does but you can stop with the "I can do anything because I wear a badge" attitude. No one likes it and we pay your salary. You are supposed to be there to "help" and "serve" the public; not walk around pounding your chest.

concerned wrote:

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No one says you MUST eat breakfast at the church.
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We've eaten there for as long as I can remember but last year was horrible.

concerned wrote:

<quoted text> As for kids in the creek in their clothes -- where did you grow up?? I grew up in an exclusive are of Atlanta and we used to go in the creek in our clothes and it was great fun -- kids are kids -- they love doing things that we may not find so appealing anymore.

fat kids in wet tshirts just scream REDNECK. Where you grew up doesn't necessarily give you class honey.

Wow... its been reduced to making cheap shots at children.

There's a time and place for everything and clothes to boot

aragon mom wrote:

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We've eaten there for as long as I can remember but last year was horrible.
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fat kids in wet tshirts just scream REDNECK. Where you grew up doesn't necessarily give you class honey.

Look in the mirror, dear, you lack class and cooth and are apparently a real scrooge when it comes to kids enjoying good fun rather than running the streets. How you dress certainly doesn't remove the "redneck" either, HONEY.

The church can do without your money, sweetie. We don't want to take a chance on some of your snobbery rubbing off on anyone. Just stay home all that day and pretend you are upper class.

concerned wrote:

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Look in the mirror, dear, you lack class and cooth and are apparently a real scrooge when it comes to kids enjoying good fun rather than running the streets. How you dress certainly doesn't remove the "redneck" either, HONEY.
The church can do without your money, sweetie. We don't want to take a chance on some of your snobbery rubbing off on anyone. Just stay home all that day and pretend you are upper class.

concerned sounds like the pot calling the kettle black, there's nothing but snobs in Rockmart Methodist!!

Aragon Mom, Are you one of those Aragon Idiots who drive a car that cost more than your "modular" home rent????

I love when women start to cry when I'm writing them a citation

Rockmart Cop wrote:

I love when women start to cry when I'm writing them a citation

All the more reason you should try to bathe and brush your teeth more than once a week.

aragondad wrote:

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concerned sounds like the pot calling the kettle black, there's nothing but snobs in Rockmart Methodist!!

There are some really nice families there but they are dying out and being taken over by power hungry crooks.

concerned wrote:

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The church can do without your money, sweetie. We don't want to take a chance on some of your snobbery rubbing off on anyone. Just stay home all that day and pretend you are upper class.

is this how your church treats people? TELL ME just who's miserable?

what wrote:

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is this how your church treats people? TELL ME just who's miserable?

I go there to enjoy breakfast every year and have never been treated anything but the best and have always enjoyed the food. MY church is Victory.