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The Cotton Fair in Gay
The Cotton Fair takes place twice a year, on the first full weekends of May and October, at the historic Gay Family Farmstead in Gay, Georgia, a tradition running since 1972. More than 350 artisans and antique dealers set up across the farmstead grounds each edition, alongside on-site Southern cooking and regional entertainment, drawing over 30,000 visitors combined across the two weekends for ten-to-fifteen-dollar admission.
The Gay Family Farmstead, a working piece of Georgia farmland now well over a century and a half old, hosts The Cotton Fair twice a year, on the first full weekend of May and again on the first full weekend of October, a tradition the small community of Gay, Georgia has kept running since 1972.