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Here’s your guide to the May-Retta Daze arts and crafts festival

Ella Seals (right) and her twin sister Addie were tuckered out from all the fun of May-Retta Daze 2014. Here’s to hoping they’ll have as much fun this year.

Credit: JONATHAN PHILLIPS / SPECIAL

Credit: JONATHAN PHILLIPS / SPECIAL

Ella Seals (right) and her twin sister Addie were tuckered out from all the fun of May-Retta Daze 2014. Here’s to hoping they’ll have as much fun this year.
By Ben Brasch
May 3, 2017

There have been several outdoor festivals lately in Cobb County.

And there’s about to be another one.

For the fourth decade, Marietta's parks department is holding the two-day May-Retta Daze — say it out loud, heavy on the accent, if you're wondering.

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The arts and crafts festival at Glover Park in the Marietta Square will feature more than 100 artists and craftsmen selling all kinds of goods: paintings, pottery, jewelry and more.

Some vendors have been posting on Facebook that they'll be there.

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The free festival runs on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, according to the city.

Free parking will be available in the county parking garage.

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Ben Brasch is the reporter tasked with keeping Fulton County government accountable. The Florida native moved to Atlanta for a job with The AJC. If there's something important to you going on in Fulton, he wants to know about it. Help him better metro Atlanta by dropping a line, anonymously or otherwise.

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