The Yellow Daisy Festival is celebrating its 40th anniversary this weekend at Stone Mountain Park.

Voted the Nation’s #1 Arts & Crafts Show FIVE YEARS IN A ROW by Sunshine Artist Magazine, a Southeast Tourism Society Top 20 Event and winner of multiple awards by the Georgia Festival and Events Association.

More than 500 artists and crafters from 38 States and two countries display their works for your appreciation and purchase. Daily live entertainment, Children’s Corner activities, clogging and crafter demonstrations throughout the event as well as fabulous festival foods.

Dates: September 4-7, 2008
Location: Special Events Meadow

Thursday & Friday, 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Saturday, 10:00 AM - 7:30 PM
Sunday, 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Why is it called the “Yellow Daisy” festival? It celebrates the “Confederate Daisy,” or “Stone Mountain Yellow Daisy,” (Viguiera Porteri) which grows in the shallow soil on the granite outcrops of Stone Mountain. The flower is so named because it is found only within a sixty-mile radius of the mountain. The species was discovered in 1846 by Reverend Thomas Porter.

Whilst on the topic of the unique flora and fauna of Stone Mountain, the pools of water that form in the eroded depressions on the mountain are homes to two types of shrimp, fairy shrimp and clam shrimp. It’s believed that the adult shrimp die when the pools dry up, leaving behind eggs to survive until the next rains.

Why isn’t there a Shrimp Festival? Sounds like a money maker to me, Silver Dollar! Mmmmm,… fried shrimp, boiled shrimp, broiled shrimp, po’ boy shrimp samiches, shrimp gumbo, bar-be-cue shrimp,… where’s Bubba when you need ‘em?