Come join us for the 2nd Annual Historic Washington Hidden Gold Rush. Come find more about the lost gold!! The race will begin at the Wilkes County Courthouse and runs through beautiful historic Washington, GA. Course is relatively flat with a few rolling hills. Enjoy the beautiful historic antebellum homes along the route! The race benefits the Washington Optimist Club, which provides support to local youth including scholarships to graduating seniors.For more information, email pjm58and@gmail.com, classicraceservices@gamail.com, jeff@rayleemc.com or call 706-680-7223.
Series affiliation
This event is part of the 2012 Black Bag Race Series Run and See Grand Prix Series.
Additional Information
Awards will be presented to Overall M/F, Masters M/F, and top three M/F in age groups beginning 10 and under through 70 and over. The entire course will be run on paved streets. Finish line timing and results provided by Classic Race Services with complete results posted online at www.classicraceservices.com, www.active.com, www.runningintheusa.com, and www.coolrunning.com. Packet pickup and race day registration will begin at 7:00 AM.
The sanctuary will be draped in handmade quilts, the parking lot will be covered in booths selling crafts and handmade items, and BBQ and brunswick stew, to-die-for pound cakes, and other baked goods will be for sale.Fore more information, call 706-812-8869.
The quilters will also be giving away a handmade quilt with donation tickets selling for only $1.00 each. It just doesn’t get any better than that!
Thomasville On Stage And Company presents, "The Journal of Pokey Perkins," a play by
Basil Lucas directed by Kathy Kefalas.Eighty year old Pokey Perkins lives alone and has just had heart surgery. He rents a shack from sixty-five year old Lois Sweetapple. Pokey has been renting the shack for three years, ever since his car broke down in front of Lois’ farmhouse.
A magnetism develops between Pokey and Lois, they maintain distance expected of them by society since Pokey is black and Lois is white.
Pokey passes his days doing odd jobs for the neighbor ladies and also reading and writing in his journal. He also reads throw-away books from the nearby university library where he worked for several years. His pet mouse, Methusalah, serves as his audience as he reads sections of his journal. Pokey dies.
Lois discovers Pokey’s journals while she is cleaning up his vacated shack. She is surprised to find herself mentioned favorably several times in the journals. While she reads, a not-so-dead Pokey hovers about, basking in his landlady’s posthumous attention. When Lois shares the journals with Hester who is also mentioned in them, Pokey attends with doubled interest. There are some very personal revelations that he had rather the ladies not read, but his anguish is trumped by the ladies’ obvious affection for his work.
Lois’ admiration for Pokey and his journals leads her to ask Col. Gaines, the university librarian, if he will find a place for Pokey’s writing on the shelves of the library. Pokey is thrilled by her proposal and astounded as the Colonel, his former boss, accepts the journals for the folk life section of the library.
