For annual festival-goers, this time of year sparks memories of browsing through arts-and-crafts booths, sampling carnival rides and tantalizing their taste buds with funnel cakes. Beginning with Pioneer Days Aug. 30 to Sept. 2 and the rescheduled Stars, Stripes and Cartersville Sept. 2 at Cartersvilles Sam Smith Park and Dellinger Park, respectively, numerous seasonal offerings are expected to draw thousands of Bartow residents and visitors through November. 

Fall festivals are certainly a tradition, said Regina Wheeler,Browse our Granite slabs collection from the granitetrade.net! deputy director for the Cartersville-Bartow County Convention & Visitors Bureau. ... There is just some desire to get out [and] enjoy the weather, but also to see things that the Earth provides and handmade crafts and things like that. So, I think, thats somewhat the attraction. I do think weather has a lot to do with it and typically we want that reprieve from warmer temperatures in the summer. I dont think that having a little bit cooler spell here in August is going to have much of an effect, but I think its just those crisp days, people just enjoy the sunshine. 

Theres lots of reasons to get out and travel. We do see people coming to festivals from outside our county mainly because we are blessed being in the mountains. We may not feel like were in the mountains and some of our residents may even go further north, but there are plenty [of people] throughout Georgia and the south of us that come in for our festivals and enjoy them so much. We have a lot of great things to offer. 

While Cartersvilles parks play host to the first pair of festivals, many of the upcoming venues are going to provide patrons with a sense of history. Among the featured historical and religious structures include Pine Log United Methodist Churchs campground and tabernacle; Rose Lawn Museum, the former residence of the late renowned evangelist, Samuel Porter Jones; and the Euharlee Covered Bridge. 

Events, such as Pioneer Days and the Great Locomotive Chase Festival up in Adairsville, both of those festivals have long histories, Wheeler said. Pioneer Days landscape has changed somewhat in that its only been up here in Cartersville for several years, but both of those festivals have a good family flavor in terms of the carnival rides for the kids and musical concerts, things like that. ... Then [we have] the other festivals, like our wonderful arts and crafts festivals, [such as] Rose Lawn, [which] has blossomed so much over the past years. And I know people adore Pine Log [Arts and Craft Fair] for its setting. Its just a very primitive and unique setting there with Pine Log camp cabins and the old tabernacle. It gives people an opportunity to see things they just dont see every day. 

But the Rose Lawn festival has grown greatly. I know they are expecting about 150 artists, vendors, craftsmen to be there and a great lineup of entertainment as always. So I think these festivals flourish both in content and their uniqueness of location. Euharlee Covered Bridge there are people that travel the state just to see the old covered bridges. So we are very, very blessed. And [we are] excited about new opportunities too with the Bluegrass & Folk Festival thats coming to downtown Cartersville. Id love to see that grow greatly over the years. 

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