Greetings from The Smith House Staff!

As a cherished member of our Smith House Family, we would like to offer you an appreciation gift: a monthly calendar from our “My Appalachia: The Smith House Experience” series of photographs.

At left is a photo representation of the April calendar. To download the calendar to your computer, simply click on the image at left, or click here and a PDF file will appear. You can then select to print, or download your free “My Appalachia: The Smith House Experience” calendar.

For the best quality print for you calendar, use photo paper and set your printer on its highest quality color print setting.

A word about our “My Appalachia: The Smith House Experience” calendar series: Our calendars are being produced exclusively for us by local resident, Dallas Kinney.

Kinney has a long history in communications as a writer, photojournalist, director of graphic arts, and editor, for the Miami Herald, Palm Beach Post, and Philadelphia Inquirer, and numerous magazines and organizations.

He studied with the icon of nature photography, Ansel Adams, and is the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize for his photojournalism series: “Migration to Misery.” Kinney's area photographs, which constitute the “My Appalachia: The Smith House Experience” series, will be most visible to you at your next visit to The Smith House.

Should you wish own a print of the photograph on our April “My Appalachia: The Smith House Experience” calendar, a 11x17 giclee print, suitable for framing, and signed by Dallas Kinney, is available for $150.00, plus shipping and handling. The transaction can be completed by calling us at 800-852-9577 and mentioning the “Appalachian Dogwood” print.

Adobe's Acrobat Reader is needed to open the file for printing. It should be resident on your computer, if not it can be downloaded for free at: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html.

Below are few of the activities which are a hop-skip-and-a-jump from our front porch, in April:

• The Vintage Chevrolet Club of America (VCCA) annual event will commence, in Dahlonega, on Thursday, April 10^th, with entries expected from fifteen states. The event's highlight is the show and judging on Friday the 11^th, followed on Saturday with a tour by many of the entries to selected sites in the Dahlonega area. This is followed by an awards banquet on Saturday night at the well known Smith House...that's us!
  
• The 12th annual Bear on the Square Mountain Festival is an incredible weekend of music and art held each spring in the foothills of the North Georgia mountains. From April 18-20, 2008, old time and blue grass music will fill the Historic Public Square in Dahlonega, GA. Y'all come!
  
• On April 25th, 2008 The Tour de Georgia: The road to the great races of Europe begins here! The opening stage of the mountain phase of America's premier bicycling event returns to Dahlonega. A new route will wind north, with a Georgia Power Sprint in Cumming, to the finish line in Dahlonega, GA. It is the third time that Dahlonega, home to America's first gold strike, has hosted the Tour (2004-2006). The race begins in Suwanee at 10:00 a.m. and is expected to finish between 2:50-4:10 p.m. in Dahlonega.”
  

To discover other area activities that The Smith House will be in-the-very-center off click on this link: http://www.chambermaster.com/directory/events.jsp?ccid=69