Gay is an novative hometown where the sixth-generatn scendants of the origal settlers host The Cotton Pick' Fair twice a year. Gay's other attractns clu Big Red Oak Plantatn, Vtage Lumber and QC Horse Aren [...]
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GAY, GEIA
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Gay, Geia.
Once known as Sasserville the early 1800s, Gay, Geia acquired s current name when the town’s first post office was opened and named honor of William F. Gay.
WELE TO THE TOWN OF GAY, GA
A flourishg agricultural area, Gay’s primary crop was tton until the 1930s. Gay began to expand s agricultural holdgs when large landowners began to grow also grow peach. Gay, Geia is a quiet hamlet of ls that 150 rints ‚ maly prised of retire who seek a quiet, simple liftyle.
A perfect plement to the Cotton Pick’ Fair is right across the street ‚ at the Shady Days Gay.
While the enomic fluence om the fairs is great, Gay don’t s back on s lrels. It all started when Ann Edmonds, a librarian at the Ponce Leon branch of the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library, attend a Servic and Advocy for Gay, Lbian, Bisexual and Transgenr Elrs (SAGE) meetg at the Rh Center where members discsed what to do wh the stuff they had accumulated about LGBTQ Atlanta. Some of the other prentatns we’ve done over the years clu a prentatn at Atlanta Prime Timers and at the Atlanta Gay Men’s Chos retreat 2014, a prentatn at The THEA+ Conference 2015, a table talk at a Metro Atlanta Associatn of Profsnals (MAAP) meetg at Burkharts 2015, an LGBT Archiv Roadshow at Burkharts 2017, a Group Procsg day at GSU 2019, and a prentatn about the project at the Invisible Histori Project Conference 2019.