Fiddlin' Howard Cunningham, General Manager of the 1956 Centennial Celebration & Grand Marshal of the 2006 Sesquicentennial

With Lynne Marshall, President, Towns County Historical Society

Dan Nichols, Mayor of Young Harris, with Howard & Lynne

Howard & Hilda Thomason

The Award Given to Howard

Dan, Lynne, Howard, Hilda & Barbara Mathis, Mayor of Hiawassee

Lynne, Howard, Hilda & Dan

Lynne & Howard

Sesquicentennial Queen Leann Chastain with Lynne

Sesquicentennial King Levi Long & Queen Leann Chastain with Lynne in center

Betty Brown Bledsoe, 1956 Centennial Queen with Lynne, Levi & Leann

Lynne with Hiawassee Mayor Barbara Kimsey Mathis

Bill Blumreich with Lynne

Lynne & Barbara

Sesquicentennial Quilt of Towns County History, by the Misty Mountain Quilters

Special hoors were given to citizens over 80:

Annalee Hooper (83), Charlotte Lanahan (87), Elizabeth Garner (90), H.D. "Dick" Paris (92), Geneva Dayton Dills (89), Susie Dyer (86) and Steve Holmes (83)

Spectators

Jerry Taylor, Towns County Historian

Ladies in 1850s Costume - Fashion Parade

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Laverne Shook (wearing the same dress she did in 1956), Alice Hicks Cunningham, Dale Rice, the winners of the costume contest, with Lynne

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Ladies in Costume

Patsy Bouvion, TCHS Treasurer

Men in 1850s Costume for Beard Judging

Lowell Nicholson, J.C. Berrong, Michael Rice, x

x, Robert ?, John Hollingshead, x, x, Bruce Sims, Paul Bouvion

Lynne, J.C. & Michael

Lynne & J.C.

Men in Costume

Winners of the Beard Competition: Robert Hunter, J.C. Berrong ready to go hog hunting with a sack of corn & Bruce Sims in front of the jail

The 3 judges (seated, foreground), Geneva, Lucille Grizzle & x. Grizzle

2 Winners

J.C. Berrong & Laverne Shook

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J.C. Berrong, Laverne Shook & Bill Blumreich

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