Historic Heartland Festivals & Events

Historic building at High Falls in Georgia’s Historic Heartland region

Georgia’s Historic Heartland, from Athens and Madison to Conyers and Macon, keeps a spring calendar of cherry blossoms, storytelling and lantern-lit walks. Here are the region’s signature events, with links to confirm this year’s dates.

Dates and prices change every year, so check each event’s own site or call before you go.

Spring Festivals

Conyers Cherry Blossom Festival

Third weekend of March

A spring celebration of international music, dance, food and crafts that draws an estimated 30,000 guests over two days, with hundreds of art and craft exhibitors, two stages and a children’s area. Admission is free; parking is $10 a day.

Georgia International Horse Park, 1996 Centennial Olympic Pkwy., Conyers. 770-860-4190. This year’s dates.

Ocmulgee Lantern Light Tours

During Macon’s Cherry Blossom Festival in March, about 7:30-9 p.m.

Carry a lantern along a luminary-lined path from the visitor center to the Great Temple Mound, with talks at the Earth Lodge and other sites, costumed characters, and a view of downtown Macon lit up at night from the mound’s top.

Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park, 1207 Emery Hwy., Macon. 478-752-8257. Tour dates and tickets.

Arts & Culture

Georgia Museum of Art Exhibitions

Exhibitions change through the year

The official state museum of art at the University of Georgia keeps a rotating lineup of major exhibitions alongside its permanent collection. Admission is free, Tuesday through Sunday.

90 Carlton St., Athens. 706-542-4662. What’s on view.

Do Tell! Storytelling Festival

Annually

The Madison-Morgan Cultural Center’s signature festival brings nationally known storytellers to Madison for evening and daytime performances and workshops.

Madison-Morgan Cultural Center, 434 S. Main St., Madison. 706-342-4743. Dates, tellers and tickets.

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