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Coverage of the yearly Hydrangea Festival in Douglasville, Ga hosted by the Douglasville/Douglas County Cultural Arts Council, including a look at the historic Roberts-Mozley House. For more travel info visit: http://worldwidetraveler.weebly.com/
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the penny
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mchenry hadranya festival is held in
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douglasville georgia each year
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the festival includes a market live
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entertainment
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food vendors offering plants
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fine arts antiques
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jewelry and much more a standard
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flower show where we are today
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is held in the courthouse there in
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douglasville georgia
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as part of the overall
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program there are also tours
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that visitors can take in surrounding
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hydrangea gardens and surrounding flower
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gardens
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penny mckendree founder of the american
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hydrangea society
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has been featured on tv shows and in
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numerous national magazines
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her love for hydrangeas grew as a result
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of a friend
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sending her a hydrania when she lost her
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daughter
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she propagated the hydrania and the rest
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is history
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the american hydrania society has grown
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to have members
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across the united states and
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international
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both the mac and mini penny hydranias
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are named for penny mckinley
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this honor is well deserved as penny
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shared her love and knowledge of
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hydrangeas
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with so many individuals and garden
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clubs across
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the country penny passed away
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in 2006 and in tribute to her
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contributions to
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hydrangea preservation and development
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the festival organizers are pleased that
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penny's family has given permission to
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name this festival
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in her honor
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huh
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so
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so
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in 1886 judge and colonel w.t
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roberts exchanged wedding vows
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with emma quinlan daughter of the
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reverend j c
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b quentin reverend quinlan was one of
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the early
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settlers of douglas county and the
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property's original
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honor after the death of reverend
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quinlan colonel roberts bought the land
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from his mother-in-law and work on the
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two-story neoclassical home
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began march 21 1900
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with its air of classical architecture
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the low sweeping line of a grand
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front porch and an entrance with stained
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glass doors the house reflected the
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prominent
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social status of mrs roberts and the
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colonel
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the house exchanged honors many times
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after the roberts family moved but its
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political future and social standing in
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the community
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continued in 1927
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mrs t n mosley bought the 11 room estate
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which remained in her family until
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1971. walter turner
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who purchased the house in 1978 was
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responsible
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for beginning its restoration he sold
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the property to the cultural
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arts council on september 16
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1986. the roberts mosley house
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is one of the few early structures
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remaining in douglasville which embody
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the characteristics of a period's style
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as a result
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and with its history of prominent
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residents the building has been placed
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on the national register of historic
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places
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by the u.s department of the interior