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Family shares memories of Lanierland Music Park on the 50th anniversary of opening
Mills: 'There couldn’t have been a better childhood'
Kenny Rogers
Lanierland Music Park opened 50 years ago this month. Kenny Rogers was one of many to perform at the venue. -photo courtesy Cindy Jones Mills
Ashlyn Yule
Updated: May 22, 2021, 2:22 AM
Published: May 22, 2021, 6:00 AM
Forsyth County celebrates the 50th anniversary of Lanierland Music Park this month. The music park was opened in 1971 by C.E. “Crant” Samples and M.L. “Shorty” Hamby to bring music to the north Georgia area.
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Local youth organization named most outstanding in the nation
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The Patriots of Liberty, a local society of the National Society Children of the American Revolution, was named Most Outstanding Society in the country. Photo courtesy of Patriots of Liberty Society in Cumming - photo by Photo submitted
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Published: May 3, 2025, 11:00 AM
The Patriots of Liberty, a local society of the National Society Children of the American Revolution, has just received the highest national honor, Most Outstanding Society in the Nation, at the Annual National Convention held in Washington, D.C.
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