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This Bear keeps getting bigger: Dahlonega fills for mountain festival
Visitors come for the music, but arts and crafts add flavor to annual event
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Sandra Smith of Loganville looks at snakes carved around walking sticks Saturday during Bear on the Square in downtown Dahlonega. Smith and her husband attended the event to play music with others and check out the crafts. - photo by Erin O. Smith
DAHLONEGA — Now in it’s 21st year, Bear on the Square is even bigger and better. This year, the mountain festival added a Moonlight Jam allowing visitors to sing along to the bluegrass music. The festivities will continue today.