On September 27, 1975, and event was held at Possum Hollow on Highway 257 between Dexter and Chester. This was surely a unique happening because it was an arts and crafts festival with public speaking and auction, and music all designed to make money for the parsonage for the Buckhorn United Methodist Church. Spearheaded by Cecil Passmore Jr., the "Something '76" launched the Bicentennial festivities in Laurens County. According to local legends, the area selected for the fair was once thick with persimmon trees and, therefore, was a ground for opossums. Naturally hunters came to trap the animals, and the place got it's name. At the time of it's selection as a site for the event, however, it was pasture and woodland.
The theme of the fair was "God and Country." Originally expected to attend was 4,000 visitors, including specially invited guests, U. S. Senator Herman Talmadge, Representative W. S. Stuckey, Comptroller-General Johnny Caldwell, Commissioner of Public Safety Herman Cofer, Commissioner of Agriculture Tommy Irvin, Secretary of State Ben Fortson, Miss Georgia Teenager Lynn Miller, and Miss National Teenager Lisa Lyon. Then when the day came, people came and came and came. They came on the 27th, and they came on the 28. Some 10,000 people came, and when it was all over, Buckhorn United Methodist Church parsonage was about $10,000 closer to it's goal of being paid for. Anyway, the building was completed and occupied the next month.
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