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Welcome to the Sandy Springs Festival! Atime-honored tradition in the heart of SandySprings, its deep-rooted traditions have cre-ated lasting memories for generations ofSandy Springs residents and visitors and cel-ebrated the community for the last 28 years.Every fall, thousands of Sandy Springs neigh-bors gather at Heritage Green for the commu-nity’s largest and most popular event. What began as a small picnic celebration

in 1986 has grown into an adored community-wide tradition and the largest fundraiser forHeritage Sandy Springs, the nonprofit thatsaved the original “sandy springs,” relocatedthe Williams-Payne House and established theHeritage Sandy Springs Museum. The festival’s humble beginnings laid the

foundation for Heritage Sandy Springs as weknow it today. Resources generated throughthe weekend event support a year-round cal-endar of meaningful educational programsand cultural activities for the public, includ-ing operating the Heritage Sandy Springs Mu-seum, presenting the long-running summer

music series, Concerts by theSprings, and hosting workshops onhistory, gardening and other specialinterests, museum educational pro-gramming for children and adultsand much more. Heritage also continues to main-

tain the four-acre park site aroundthe original springs, now known asHeritage Green, offering an oasis of green-space in an otherwise modern urban setting.Through its many free and affordable com-munity programs, Heritage Sandy Springsand Heritage Green serve as a thriving com-munity gathering place. This year’s Sandy Springs Festival guide

shares an overview of the many activities thatencompass the festival weekend. Many ofthese events are annual favorites, but we aredelighted to announce new features to thisyear’s festival, including the MoondogGrowlers Biergarten located on the SandySprings Society Entertainment Lawn and anexpanded Teen Territory presented by Sny-der’s-Lance with more thrilling rides for ad-venturous youngsters.

The heart of Sandy Springs willagain be transformed into an outdoorart gallery as fine artists and craftersdisplay their work in the Artists Mar-ket. In addition to hosting 120 ac-claimed artists, the weekend will offergreat live music and entertainment, her-itage education and delicious festivalfare.

Sports enthusiasts can compete to qualifyfor the Peachtree Road Race in the fast-pacedSandy Springs Lightning 10K and 5K on Sat-urday morning, the official kickoff to the fes-tival. Children will delight in the Gas SouthChildren’s Park with hands-on activities, facepainting and pony rides. Pet lovers will be ex-cited to see the 26th annual Kiwanis Pet Pa-rade led by Parade Marshall Jan Collinsknowing that the Sandy Springs Festival iscompletely pet-friendly! Every year the success of the festival re-

lies on the many selfless and enthusiastic vol-unteers who make the event possible. Theseindividuals, responsible for the seemingly ef-fortless way the festival comes together, arerarely seen or acknowledged by the public.

When one year’s event is packed away, theyimmediately begin planning for the next year,working hard to make the experience of everyvisitor as memorable and pleasant as possible.The continued growth and success of theSandy Springs Festival is due to these manydedicated volunteers. We again focused our attention on creating

a weekend celebration that honors the com-munity that makes Sandy Springs such a spe-cial place to live and work. The festivalcommittee, Heritage Sandy Springs board oftrustees and staff and hundreds of weekendvolunteers have spent vast numbers of hourstoward this 28th annual festival to present thebest weekend possible to the community weeach love.As festival director, it is my pleasure to in-

vite you to join Heritage Sandy Springs, yourfriends, neighbors and community for the28th annual Sandy Springs Festival, in theheart of Sandy Springs. We look forward to welcoming you!

Rebekah Henry MurphyFestival Director

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From Staff Reports

Fall festivals are everywhere these days; onecan find them at almost every crossroads eachweekend of the season.

With so many choices and so many events,what brings more than 25,000 people to theSandy Springs Festival on a busy Septemberweekend? Festival organizers say the event’spopularity can be credited to the collaborativeapproach taken in planning for it.

“The festival is a collaborative effort spear-headed by community volunteers and producedas a fundraiser for Heritage Sandy Springs, theoldest nonprofit in the city,” said Carol Thomp-son, executive director of Heritage SandySprings. “The Sandy Springs Festival is a com-munity event designed to bring people togetherto create and strengthen a sense of place in thephysical and literal heart of our city.”

Heritage Sandy Springs developed the festi-val 28 years ago to celebrate the volunteer spiritthat saved the original spring site, a centuries-old gathering place in a shadymeadow off busyRoswell Road.

Agroup of dedicated citizens chose to think

differently about the best use of this land,pulling together a grassroots effort to save thesprings and create an urban greenspace ratherthan commercial development in what is nowconsidered the city center.

The Sandy Springs Festival continues to cel-ebrate and connect all facets of the SandySprings community — businesses, civicgroups, schools, artists, elected officials, visi-tors and neighbors— challenging them to find

common ground and appreciate our differences.More than just an entertainingweekend, the fes-tival offers opportunities for local residents andvisitors to experiencewhowe are becoming, aswell as whowe have been, as a city and a com-munity.

Renderings from the city of Sandy Springsshow that Heritage Sandy Springs is right in themiddle of plans for the city center redevelop-ment. TheHeritage site continues to be the heart

of Sandy Springs, where people gather for arts,entertainment and heritage education.

“It is a vital long-term goal of HeritageSandy Springs to continue to serve as the heartof the city,” Thompson said. “We are glad forour strong partnership with the city and lookforward to being an integral part of the excitingchanges planned for this area. Our hope is thatthe Sandy Springs Festival will continue toshowcase our community, attracting residentsand visitors who will return again and again tothe city center for shopping, dining, entertain-ment and living options.”

Thompson also believes the festival is thecornerstone for all programming at HeritageSandy Springs.

“From its beginning as a picnic celebrationof community, the festival gave rise to a beau-tiful four-acre park, theHeritageMuseum, a re-search library and a year-round calendar ofcultural offerings for citizens in FultonCounty,”she said. “Through resources produced by thefestival and the many attendees that are intro-duced to Heritage Sandy Springs with this an-nual event, the park has grown to a well-lovedcommunity asset at the core of our city.”

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Special PhotoAbove, visitors view the ‘Wit in Wood’ exhibit at the HeritageSandy Springs Museum, which will be open during the SandySprings Festival. Below, a dog is decked out for the festival’s an-nual Pet Parade.

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From Staff Reports

The Sandy Springs Festival pridesitself on presenting a diverse sched-ule of cultural performances and livemusic by Sandy Springs schools, artsorganizations and area entertainers.The 2013 schedule continues to offera sampling of entertainment sure toplease any audience.This year two emerging acts with

two very different styles will perform—RileyBiederer, a pop sensation re-cently signed by Elton John’s man-agement company Rocket Music —and City Mouse, an Americana-folkduowho formed in 2012 and have al-ready become regulars on theAtlantafolk music scene.The first thing one notices about

Atlanta-raised singer/songwriterRiley Biederer is how self-assuredshe is at 16, with a vocal virtuosity tomatch her confidence. Although sheis not the first teenager to pen a song,it is her compositions that hookedElton John’s management company.“I try to write about what’s real,”

Biederer said. “I write about love, be-cause everybody knows what that’slike, good or bad.” She does not apol-ogize for her youthful lyrical frame-of-reference, saying as a teenager,“You’re learningwhat heartbreak is.”Biederer continues to write and

record in Atlanta, Nashville, NewYork and Los Angeles for her forth-coming debut album. She will per-form on the Festival EntertainmentStage Saturday from 2 to 3 p.m.

City Mouse was formed in 2012by Atlanta-based songwriters andfolk musicians Brian Revels andMichael Hudgins, but they quicklyhave amassed a steady tour schedule,performing at Steve’s Live Music inSandy Springs, The Swallow at theHollow in Roswell, Eddie’s Attic inDecatur and various bluegrass andarts festivals.Generally accompanied by a

banjo, guitar and a few overzealous,

tempo-tempting foot stomps byRev-els, CityMouse lyrics implymeaningand conviction. They are keen story-tellers who take the audience rightalongwith them in the stories they aretrying to convey. City Mouse willperform on the Festival Entertain-ment Stage Saturday from 3 to 4 p.m.The festival Sundaywill conclude

with a diverse set by Gwen Hughesand The Retro Jazz Kats. Led byfrontwoman and Sandy Springs resi-dent Hughes on vocals, the Jazz Katsinclude three horns and a rhythm sec-tion. They certainly deliver the jazzstandards and big band music ex-pected from their pedigree, but theaudience should expect a diversemixof American standards, Top 40 hits,and beloved classics by the band.“We certainly perform the classics

audiences expect to hear, but wemaymix in CeeLo Green or the RollingStones andwe take audience requestsall the time,” said Hughes.Originally scheduled to appear at

Heritage Sandy Springs’Concerts bythe Springs outdoor summer series,

the band was rained out twice thissummer. “We are so excited to per-form for the Sandy Springs Festival”,Hughes said. “After a couple of near-misses this summer, the band is readyto entertain attendees and close outthe festival with a great perform-ance.”GwenHughes andTheRetro Jazz

Kats will perform Sunday from 3:30to 5 p.m.

Riley Biederer

Gwen Hughes,center, and TheRetro Jazz Kats,including, fromleft, bass playerL.A. Tuten anddrummer MikeHinton, will per-form at the festi-val.

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Special PhotoA girl enjoys a ride in the Teen Territory at last year’s SandySprings Festival.

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Special PhotoAn artist draws a portrait of a Sandy Springs Festival attendeeat last year’s event.

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From Staff Reports

It’s definitely not cooking onthe range at home, but it is foodfrom home-on-the–range!

During this year’s festival, theHeritage Sandy Springs Museumwill showcase Todd Stansell andthe cowboys from the Double XRanch of Hampton.

These cowboy demonstratorswill bring back the days of cattledrives in Sandy Springs by show-casing the food and cooking tech-niques of America’s pioneers.

“For decades, cattle wasrounded up in northern Georgiaand driven down the old RoswellRoad to the slaughter houses nearHowell Mill Road,” KimberlyBrigance, director of historic re-sources for Heritage SandySprings, said. “The roundup tookseveral days and legend has it thatthe cowboys and their herds wouldstop near the springs to camp be-fore making the full day trip intoAtlanta.”

On cattle drives, a chuck wagonwould follow behind the cowboysand cattle, providing a hearty mealto the working men.

The cooking techniquesdemonstrated during the festivalwill mirror the way food wascooked before the invention of the

stove.Also during festival weekend,

the exhibition “Wit in Wood: TheFolk Art of Moses Robinson” willbe on view in the Heritage SandySprings Museum. “Wit in Wood”highlights a collection of folk artcreated by former Sandy Springsresident Moses Young Robinson(1845-1942).

An illness at the age of 60 pre-vented Robinson from continuingto work. Determined not to be-come useless or idle, he began thehobby of whittling. Without train-ing or lessons of any kind, hecarved found materials into thefigures and animals he saw in theworld around him. Peach pits andhickory nuts became turtles, bas-kets and birds. Discarded wood be-came armies of soldiers andvillages of Native Americans.

Robinson used his carvings toshare the story of his long life andrural surroundings, reflecting thepeople he remembered from grow-ing up during the Civil War and a

post-Reconstruction South. Al-though he began carving late inlife, this self-taught artist madethousands of pieces before hisdeath in 1942.

This previously unknown folkart collection was gathered fromseveral groups of Robinson’s de-scendants throughout the UnitedStates. Generously, these membersof the Robinson family donatedthe woodcarvings to the museumwith the understanding the itemsbe cared for and displayed.

Due to the exhibit’s popularity,the museum extended the exhibi-tion run to keep it open for festi-val attendees. The preservationand acquisition of the MosesRobinson folk art collection is thefirst major curatorial initiative ofthe museum following its repur-posing into an exhibition museumin 2010.

After viewing the exhibit, visi-tors can visit with woodcarversdemonstrating their craft on thefront porch of the museum.

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Special PhotoThe cowboys of the Double X Ranch of Hampton will be on handat the Sandy Springs Festival this weekend.

Special PhotoVisitors to the Heritage Sandy Springs Museum check out the‘Wit in Wood’ exhibit, which will be open during the festival.

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From Staff Reports

Art Sandy Springs will againpresent the annual ArtSS ChalkWalk at the Sandy Springs FestivalSaturday.

The Chalk Walk is a competi-tion of chalk drawings to be cre-ated by area artists on theBluestone Road sidewalks be-tween 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. Saturday.

Each artist, or team, will be as-signed a four-foot by four-footsquare on the sidewalk and pro-vided with free chalk for their cre-ative and artistic technique. In thetradition of Italian street painting,competing artists may exchangechalk colors with other streetpainters if desired. Other addi-tional useful tools will be sug-gested and rules will be explainedwhen registering. There is no se-lect theme for the drawings, andparticipants are encouraged to usetheir imagination.

Artists will be entered in threecategories: middle school, highschool and adults. Professional de-sign industry experts will serve asjudges, presenting cash prizes ineach category. First place will re-ceive $500, second $250 and thirdand honorable mention gift cards.

This year, festival attendeesmay participate in the judgingprocess and cast their vote for theCrowd Favorite, a $250 cash prize.

Art Sandy Springs is a volun-teer organization dedicated to sup-

porting the arts in the city. Thenonprofit works to identify, uniteand motivate the volunteer com-munity to elevate the arts in SandySprings, thereby enriching thequality of life for all the city’s res-idents and visitors.

The ArtSS Chalk Walk was un-veiled at the 2012 Sandy SpringsFestival and was extremely wellreceived.

“ArtSS is excited to bring theChalk Walk as part of the SandySprings Festival for a secondyear,” ArtSS Executive DirectorDeidre Brock said. “It is a greatcommunity event that brings to-gether artists of all ages to exhibittheir ideas and talents. We hope togrow the Chalk Walk into an evenlarger event in future years.”

DeAnn Campbell, a member ofArtSS and the Chalk Walk Com-mittee, said, “Festival-goers willhappily ‘Walk the Chalk’ duringthe event, getting a chance to meetthe artists and marvel at the mas-terpieces of performance art,where the process of creating ismore important than the finishedpiece.”

Registration is encouragedfrom schools, churches, businessesand artist groups in the commu-nity. Participation in the competi-tion is free and open to ages 11 andup, as individuals or as teams.

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The Artists Market at the Sandy Springs Festival is one ofthe most traversed areas of the event, where attendees enjoystrolling through row upon row of artists’ booths, perusing theoriginal work in a variety of art mediums, including painting,pottery, jewelry, photography and sculpture. Featuring 120artists selected through a competitive jury process, the annualmarket is known for its high quality of artwork and attractsartists from throughout the region and beyond.

“For the last few years it’s been a privilege to cultivate thetype of artist participant the Sandy Springs Festival deserves,”said Patrick Dennis, president of the Midtown-based AtlantaFoundation for Public Spaces, which organizes the Artists Mar-ket. “Giving this show national exposure really upped the qual-ity and competition while maintaining a wide variety of art andcraft that will appeal to return visitors and new folks who comeout for the weekend.”

The competition among artists gets stronger every year, withmany award-winning artists choosing to participate due to thecaliber of participants.

Photographer Lisa Windle said, “Some of my favorite localpainters will be at this show including Frederic Payet, SergeyCherep and Wade Lincoln. But I also can’t wait to see JamesFloyd from Florida, who makes musical instruments from partsone would never imagine using!”

The Artists Market is open during the duration of the festi-val hours, Saturday from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Sunday from 11a.m. to 5 p.m.

Far left, MariellaOwens’ largewheel thrownpitcher. Left, JakeAsuit’s ‘Hippo’sculpture. Right,Wade Lincoln’s‘The Old Timers’painting.

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The Sandy Springs Lightning 10K/5K hasbeen one of the fastest 10K race routes in thestate of Georgia for the last 23 years and a fa-vorite with metro Atlanta runners who enjoyits flat course through the Sandy Springscommunity and neighborhoods. This year’srace, set for Saturday, will be welcoming itsyoungest participants with the introduction ofa stroller division.Runners are welcome to race with their

children during this year’s 5K and 10K in thestroller division. Recognizing the athleticismrequired for running with a stroller, awardswill be distributed for the top three male andfemale finishers with strollers. Stroller run-ners will have a delayed start time to ensuresafety from the crowd at the start line of bothraces. “With an extremely successful 2012 race,

the race committee is thrilled to see the en-ergy and excitement continue to grow withthis community tradition,” Race DirectorCody Elder said. “This year we are especiallyexcited to add the stroller division to includethose with little passengers, starting the nextgeneration of runners and athletes.”

The longest-standing race in SandySprings began in fall 1990, spearheaded bythe energy of longtime Sandy Springs Festi-val volunteer Doug Kessler. Known as the“festival fun run,” the race ultimately becamethe Lightning 10K because Kessler encour-aged participants to “run like lightning” whilethey were racing. Kessler was committed toimproving and growing the race each year,until his death in 2005. Kessler’s wife,

Margie, continues to play an instrumentalrole in planning the event that Doug held soclose to his heart, saying, “It is a great eventfor our city and continues to serve as a won-derful tribute to Doug’s memory.”The race serves as the official kickoff to

the festival, with a 7:30 a.m. start time for the10K race and 7:50 start time for the 5K run.Both the 5K and 10K courses are USA Track& Field certified and the races feature chip

timing to electronically record the runners’times. The race is a Peachtree Road Racequalifier.“With its flat course, the Lightning 10K

offers an exceptional [personal-best] oppor-tunity for runners,” Elder said. “This is whyso many hopeful Peachtree Road Race par-ticipants like to use the race as a Peachtreequalifier.” Runners may register on race day begin-

ning at 6:30 a.m. at the Sandy Springs UnitedMethodist Church Activities Center parkinglot, 85 Mount Vernon Hwy. Day-of registra-tion is $35 for the 5K and $40 for the 10K.Racers receive a complimentary high per-formance technical T-shirt, free festival entrywith their race shirt and giveaways from racesponsors.The 2013 Sandy Springs Lightning

10K/5K is sponsored by Moncrief Heatingand Air Conditioning, the Sandy Springs So-ciety, Affinity Bank, Resurgens Or-thopaedics, Fleet Feet Sports, Whole FoodsMarket Sandy Springs, Waffle House,Oberto, the Neighbor Newspapers, Clif Bar,Food Should Taste Good, Michelob Ultra,Endurance Concepts and Cadence Bikes &Multisport.

Special PhotoRunners race during the 2010 Sandy Springs Lightning 10K.

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