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Step back into mountain life at Foxfire’s Mountaineer Festival — a day filled with heritage skills, live music, great food, and family fun.✨ Explore 58 folk & craft vendors
✨ Watch demonstrations in spinning, pottery, blacksmithing, quilting, woodcarving & more
✨ Enjoy wagon rides, kids’ games (3-legged races, sack races, Shiner’s Dash), toy making, and clogging contests
✨ Cheer on the crowd-favorite Crosscut Saw Competition
✨ Feast on local favorites: Blue Hound Barbecue, The Sunday Diner & Rabun County Band Boosters
✨ Music all day long to keep the mountains singing
🎉 NEW THIS YEAR: Appalachian Dress Contest
Categories for men, women & children. Winners each take home a $50 Foxfire Mercantile gift card. Sign up by Booth A1 before 1:30 PM; judging begins 1:45 PM on the Main Stage.
🎟 Foxfire Fundraiser Raffle — $20 tickets for a chance to win a Foxfire Heritage Skill class (value up to $150). Tickets at Booth A1; winner announced from the stage at 2 PM.
Event info:
🎟 Admission: $10 adults (16+), $5 kids (6–15), FREE ages 5 & under
📅 Saturday, October 4, 2025 | 10 AM–4 PM
📍 Rabun County Civic Center Pavilions, Clayton, GA
This is Foxfire’s biggest fundraiser of the year, helping preserve and share Appalachian heritage for generations to come.
Thank you to our supporters: Arbitter Animal Hospital, Blossman Gas, Chick-fil-A Clayton, City of Mountain City, Duvall Automotive, Hunter Electric, Hunter Funeral Home, Laurel of Northeast Georgia, Lifepoint Medical, McClain and Sons Excavating LLC, Osage Farms, Poss Realty, Rabun County Bank, Rabun Neighbors, RAIN Water, Reeves Ace Hardware, Taylor Home Repair, United Community Bank, and Veronica’s Café. Special thanks to the Foxfire Community Board and the City of Clayton.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Rabun County Civic Center, 90 Library Cir, Clayton, GA 30525-50ND, United States
