Dust off your clogging shoes and head to Lake Chatuge in May for the annual Georgia Mountain Fair.

The event occurs for 12 days near Hiawassee in Towns County, which is nicknamed the Showplace of the Mountains. Activities include country music shows, clogging, carnival rides, arts and crafts, exhibits, a parade, and a beauty pageant.

Dating from 1950, the fair features demonstrations of moonshine making, quilting, blacksmithing and soap making. A Pioneer Village offers a look at an old-time mountain town, complete with a one-room schoolhouse, log house and smokehouse.

The fair attracts nearly 100,000 people each year.