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Collection: The Fire Ant Festival (previously known as the Wiregrass Festival)

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The Wild Side: Animal-themed festivals in Georgia

Animal-themed festivals offer visitors a great time while paying homage to highly esteemed critters in communities throughout the state. Here are a few festivals that celebrate our finned, feathered and four legged friends, plus a few other…

Tags: Fire Ant Festival, Fire Ant Festival 5K, Fire Ant Festival BBQ Bash, Fire Ant Festival Calling Contest, Fire Ant Festival Carnival, Fire Ant Festival Manty-Hose Contest, Fire Ant Festival Pageant

Turner Will Wage War on Ants

Tags: Ants, Fire Ant Festival, Georgia Department of Agriculture, State Representative Ted Hudson, The Wiregrass Farmer

Wiregrass Excitement

Poem by Gail Walls, one of the original members of the Fire Ant Festival (previously known as the Wiregrass Festival).

Tags: Fire Ant Festival, Gail Walls

Wiregrass Festival features fire ants, fun

Fire Ant Festival - The Albany Herald - 24 March 1996.pdf

Tags: Charnelle Reinhardt, Debbie Free, E. College Ave., Fire Ant Festival, Fire Ant Festival Strawberry Cook-off, Heritage Park, Jay Leatherwood (1936-2019), Sycamore Elementary, The Wiregrass Farmer

Wiregrass Festival Postcard

Fire Ant Festival Postcard - 1996 front.jpg

1996 1st Annual Wiregrass Festival (now known as the Fire Ant Festival) Postcard

March 20-24, 1996

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