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Swamp Gravy
Colquitt, GA · Arts & Culture
- When
- October 2–24, 2026
- Where
- Cotton Hall Theatre · Colquitt · GA
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule
Georgia's officially designated folk life play stages true stories collected from Miller County residents at the Cotton Hall Theatre in downtown Colquitt. The production has run since 1992 and rotates a new script drawn from local oral histories each season. The fall 2026 run, 'Country Come to Town,' performs on consecutive weekends in October.
The history within reach
- Swamp Gravysame spot
Georgia's officially designated folk life play stages true stories collected from Miller County residents at the Cotton Hall Theatre in downtown Colquitt.
- National Mayhaw Festivalsame spot
Colquitt has celebrated the tart wild mayhaw berry, harvested from swamps and riverbanks across southwest Georgia, with this festival for more than 40 years.
- Swamp Gravy at Colquitt0.3 mi
A town of two thousand losing its young people started collecting the stories its older residents told and staging them, cast entirely from people who live there, in a converted cotton warehouse.
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The nation's largest peanut festival, held since 1938.