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Speaker 1 (00:12):
Welcome to Georgia Focus. I'm John Clark and the Georgia
News Network. The eleventh annual Doc Holiday Festival the first
weekend after Labor Day at Griffin City Park in Griffin.
The Doc Holiday Festival and the Barbecue Competition is held
in Griffin every year, featuring a day of entertainment for
the whole family. This exciting event is not only free
to attend, but also offers a glimpse to the past
and present with a variety of activities and shows, including
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the Doc Holiday Festival. Here today to talk about the
Doc Holiday Festival is Cindy Jones, President and CEO of
the Griffin Spawling Chamber of Commerce. This is the eleventh
annual Doc Holiday Festival. Talk about that.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Sure, it is returning to the Griffin City Park September sixth,
So it's always the weekend following Labor Day, okay, and
the beautifully shaded Griffin City Park. And there are live
Western reenactments from a group called Aces and Eight, and
we also have live music, so it's kind of country
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Western music in between those reenactments that go on the
main stage, and then we've got arts and crafts and
food vendors and kids activities, bounce houses and things like that,
horse back fighting, little pony rides all the while. There's
a barbecue competition going on. But Georgia Barbecue Association has
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a big barbecue competition going on. So you can purchase
a sampling of barbecue from twelve different competitors and vote
on your favorite, and then that team wins a prize
from as people's choice. So there's an additional other than
the professional judges, there's an additional way to win for that.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Now, now, how did you get started with this? I
know he's from Bruce. Up to date on his history
a little bit at the history. He's from Griffin, right
right right.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
His father was kind of a area leader in our
community and was born in Griffin. There are baptismal records
at the Presbyterian Church that he was at least a
young child, was here in Griffin and baptized. Then had
a dentistry practice on Solomon Street, so the building still
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stands where his dentistry practice was, and there are markers
in town that designate different areas of his life, so
one of them being the dentistry practice, one being the
location of the Presbyterian church, and one is at where
the home place was. The original home is no longer standing,
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but the property where his home place was is marked.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Oh gosh, so you've he's really really you know, he
lived there, that's.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
What you know. Oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah, and had
a business here. So he had a dentistry practice here. Sayetteville,
our neighboring county also says home of thought Caliday. They
kind of claim his family as well. And we believe
that there were cousins and people that they would visit
back and forth. So he may have spent enough time
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over there to say he lived there part of his life.
But we do know he had a business here. And
just like how we'll take a day trip and go
down to Savannah or something that it was probably on horseback,
take a day or so, you know, to get over
to Fayetteville and spend a few days. So probably spent
their time back and forth. But before he went out west,
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he was here as an adult in Griffenden and running
his dentistry practice.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Did he did he? He spent some time running or
practice in Valdosta too, didn't he before?
Speaker 2 (03:55):
I believe?
Speaker 1 (03:55):
So yeah, yeah, so so he catched tuberculosis. How do
you catch tovercials that he'd have to then go to.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
I don't know, I mean, I guess, you know, you
get that from person to person. So it could have
been a patient for all we know, but it was rampant.
A lot of people got to both of uses, and a
lot of people died from it. And probably his medical knowledge,
he knew that if he was in a drier climate
that it would it would help him. But there's also
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stories that he'd left this area of town because he
was running from the laws and so to escape prosecution.
He also to ship Town. So don't know if that's
one hundred percent true or not, but that he did
leave and had some friends that went either went with
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him or met along the way. And his good friends
White Erb and some of the others that he spent
time with, and of course you know, they were all gunslingers.
That's what she did. That's how you sell dispute. So
he was good at it. So he was a pretty good,
pretty good shot.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
So he was good at shooting a gun and doing
dental work.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
That was that's right, that's right, and putting some whiskey
back probably, that's right.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
The pain from tuberculosis, and it was safer to drink
than the water back in the day, so that most
people drank drank the whiskey. So he he had a
lot of a lot of things that didn't quite go
his way.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
So so you you now here it is eleven years
later and you had the Doug Holiday Festival. Did it
start out really small and it's grown over the years.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
It really it started small. It was really the barbecue
competition that started at first, and then we formed the
festival around that. That's kind of what sets the date.
And his birthday is in August, so we kind of
celebrate late annually, you know, right home a Dot Holliday.
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But the Western reenactors kind of do like a living history.
They talk about two different scenarios, but they do highlight
the shootout shootout from the OK Corral, the sixty shots
in sixty seconds, and then they slow it down to
show you how the steps that took in those sixty.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Seconds, so it was only only lasted roughly sixty seconds.
Is that that's that's yeah, and they slow it down.
That's and I bet that's interesting though.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
It is very interesting to watch. And they have a
narrator that kind of talks about who all these characters are,
who's doing what, And they really tried to de escalate
the situation before the shooting started. And the person was
supposed to be unarmed to come to this meeting, and
so there was kind of an argument that went on
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and then they realized this person was in fact armed
and they fired the first shot. So it was the
retaliatory shooting back and forth that that happened.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Did he did, Doc Holliday? Did he become famous as
a result of that shooting or was he? Family think
that was.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Where his fame came from. I mean, people knew him
in town. Like I said, his dad was a prominent
businessman in town. So they were ann family and you know,
one of the prominent families in the community. But that
that Okay Corral shootout is what a lot of them
are known for.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Yeah, now he's now he is buried out out there
somewhere out I don't remember where he's buried, But he's
not buried in Georgia.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Well, actually there is. There is folklore, but it's kind
of backed up with fact that one of our doctors
in town, his grandfather told the story that so this
this doctor in town is old enough to be probably
my dad's if you think about the age of the person.
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His grandfather says that Doc Holliday's dad came to him
and said, I'm going to get him, come with me
to help me bring his body home because of grave
robbers and this, and that he was buried outside of
basically a pauper cemetery because he didn't have anything, okay,
and they buried him and they bury him with whatever
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you're wearing, everything you got, and his dad and the
grandfather of this doctor in town went out west and
got him and brought his body home. His baby sister
is buried here in a marked grave, and so the
family cemetery is here, and it is presumed that he
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is buried in the area.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Is there a mark or there or anything.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Not for him, Well, there is a historical marker that
talks about the Doc Holliday and Dot Calladay family doesn't
and as it's not a headstone that says this is
where he lays. But the presumption is this is probably
where he is.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Oh, that's interesting, I did not know. See you, you've
brought all these news new facts short of facts, so
sort of you.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Know, I didn't hear it from the horse's mouth. But
that's what the family says. I believe it's true because
this is what Grandpa said. And Grandpa wouldn't have made
this up. Why would he make up going up going
to do this. But you know, truly back in the day,
that's you know, they didn't hand down your belongings to
your descendants. They put them in the in the grave
with you because you really didn't have much else.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Yeah. Yeah, oh man, Well, now does he have any
any family around that the area still that were distantly related? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:35):
No, there was a nephew that was here that passed
away a couple of years ago that kind of had
a little museum here that he passed away a couple
of years ago.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Okay, so now you just have the festival, which is enough.
The festival is great. This this is great. And it
started from barbecue competition. Talking about the barbecue competition.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Well, the Georgia Barbecue Association. It they make in Griffin.
It's made up of over thirty cook teams and they
come with these giant, you know, professional cook trailers. But
they also have competitor uh opportunities for backyard grillers to
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the people that are just getting started that haven't gotten
these nice, big pro trailers. But but yeah, they they
put in a lot of money into their equipment and
to their participation, and then they win big cash prizes
as well as the bragg And Trophy and the brag
And Rights.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
So yeah, I bet that is great. I bet the.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Partly it's really neat.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Oh yeah, yeah, who won last years? Does the same
guy win every year?
Speaker 2 (10:48):
No? Different ones? Some of the names of the teams
are very familiar. They're kind of at the top of
the top rounds of these. But but there's another person
who kind of over the barbecue competition that he organizes
that and I organize the festival. In the entertainment okay, okay,
kind of split that stuff up.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
And entertainment, what we be having, you'll be having besides
the band, the Western re enactors, besides.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
The Aces and eighths group, we have a local country artist.
Her name is Bella Dunn, the E L l A.
And she is a really sweet young girl who can
sing just about anything, and just to kind of fill
that space in between the reenactments, because it's like everything
stands still when this is going on. It draws a
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big crowd, and we do three of those throughout the
day so people can come and watch. But it's a
really fun day at the city park where the community
to come out. It's very family friendly. Lots of that
fair food, you know, the good oh yeah, greasy stuff.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Oh that's the that's the best stuff. And I hope
you have good weather. I meant you probably have really
good yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's going to be a
rain shine she'll be there is rain.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Or shine, yeah, you know, if it's dangerous, of course
we'll call it. But it's hard because a lot of
the festival arts and crafts vendors and stuff they book
every weekend, so it's not like we can just say
we'll do it the next weekend. So there they're book
to be somewhere every weekend.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
And there, what do you have there in terms of vendors, vendors,
a type of veners.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
We'll have probably one hundred vendors of different food items,
craft items. You know these days there's a lot of
handmade soaps and lotions and scented things, and it's you know,
crochet and ceramics used to be the old fan by
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of arts and crafts, but now there's more professional art
things that happen, and and then of course food. We've
got everything from barbecue to hot Dogzemburger's funnel cakes.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
And I was going to say, do you have things
besides now I want barbecue me, that's just what I want.
You have things besides barbecues? The you do?
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, there's there's taco trucks that oh, just
a variety of different.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Different Okay, I would go with the barbecue. That's just me.
That's just me. I'm a barbecue fan.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
There's even a little a vendor that does like panning,
like gym panning with kids where you get to find
the treasures and the things. So just just a fun
day out at the park.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Yeah, that's great. Had Doc Holiday Festival is coming up
and we're talking today with Cindy Jones of the Chamber
of Commerce there and it's in Griffin and it's gonna
be was held the weekend after Labor Day weekend, right,
that's right.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
This year to be September the sixth. Starts around ten
am in the morning and goes until five o'clock and
then they'll name the barbecue winners and then we just
kind of call it a day. There's things that happen
in downtown Griffin every second Saturday. So we try to
end our events so people can go to downtown and
do things in downtown.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Griffin right well, and talk about that a little bit.
What's what's in Griffin? I mean, this is tell us
about Griffin. I haven't been in a couple of years
to Griffin, which the radio station down there, and it really.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Has had a lot a lot going on in the
past several years. We've had a couple of new hotels
and there's another one coming that's going to be in
the downtown area. But we we have just opened a
newly renovated historic hotel that was probably a hotel when
not Calladay lived here, but so it's just been renovated
and reopened as a boutique hotel. There is a nine
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hole putt putt course that's in downtown Griffin. So if
you're waiting on your meal, waiting for your name to
be called to go eat at the new pubs, the
new brewery, then you can go over employ nine holes
of putt putt and go eat your dinner or come afterwards.
But every second Saturday there are events downtown. There's concerts
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during those weekends live music. These are all free to attend.
That you can just come up and listen to the
music and eat food from one of the local restaurants
or sometimes food trucks are about. So there's always something
going on in downtown.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Yeah, yeah, Now is that Doc Holidays his dental office there,
the place that was his didntal office. Is there something
in the building now or is it empty?
Speaker 2 (15:33):
It's beside the boutique hotel, but I don't know if
there's anything in there, Like, you can't go inside that.
There is a marker on the outside of the building.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Okay, so it's right by the hotel there, Yeah, okay,
I heard you mentioned that. All right, And Doc Holiday
Festival is not the only time you want to go
to Griffin. Go anytime, just go to Griffin. That's right,
that's right, Yeah, that's right. Last time I was there,
I went to see the visit the radio station, and
they're good friends of mine. They are people at the
radio station. Of course, I work at the Georgia Using network.
(16:02):
That makes sense, but I didn't know until I saw
it recently. The Doc Holiday Festival is there, and I
had to have you on the show. To talk about
that because I love Doc Holiday. Yeah, it was great.
Now can can vendors still participate? People can still talk
to you.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
We still have availability for vendors to register. They can
either go to the Chamber of Commerce website at Griffin
Chamber dot com or there is a doc Holiday website
that's doc holidays fest dot com. It's so vendor registration, sponsorship,
just information in general about what's happening is available on
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that website or a Facebook page.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
So go and go and have fun. That's gonna be.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Fun, that's right. We encourage you to come.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Yeah, you cared you to come. Well, I thank you
so much for coming onto talking to us today about
this because it's it's it's gonna be the eleventh anual
Doc Holiday Festival. One of the world famous man from Griffin, Georgia.
It's Doc Holiday, that's right, yeah from there. So thank
you so much for coming on. I appreciate it you.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
I appreciate you having me.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
That's Cindy Jones, President and CEO of the Griffin Spaulding
Chamber of Commerce. You can find out more about the
Doc Holiday Festival at docholidayfest dot com. Children's Healthcare of
Atlanta has a Pediatric train transport team to transfer critical
patients to our three hospitals for treatment. Bill Ryan is
Critical Care Transport Manager. It talks about.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
That we have ten ambulances. We run nine a day,
so we go anywhere in the state. Our ambulances. You'll
see them if you see them on the road. They're
colorfully decorated, and you'll notice that they're usually a lot
bigger than the normal nine to one to one ambulance.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
You see.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
That's because every single one of our trucks is set
up to be sort of like a mini ICU or
even a trauma bay and an ED. We can pretty
much do anything in the back of an ambulance that
they can do in one of those rooms.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Wow, it really you got everything you need, everything we need,
and then the paramedics are trained how to handle that
stuff too.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
We actually are our crew configurations. We have a nurse
typically on board, a paramedic and or a respiratory therapist.
So yeah, and they're all trained. They go through rigorous
training to handle just about anything that comes their way.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Will they go through to to rex or something like that,
or where they just go to a hospital and then
back here.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Our ambulances actually just do inner facility, which means they
go just to hospitals and bring them back to one
of our hospitals.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Our aircraft, on the other hand, is what we call
a scene helicopter. They will land on the side of
the road if there's a traffic accident, or if there's
something out in the middle of nowhere. They'll land in
a field somewhere if we're requested.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Okay, I noticed today driving in on the top of
the building was a helicopter, and that's what of yours right,
tell us about those.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
We have two helicopters. We only fly one at a time.
Our primary helicopter, not to get too nerdy here, is
what we call an EC one. It's actually a really
big helicopter EMS and we do have a backup that
we use when obviously helicopters go down for maintenance and
things like that. But we have two helicopters. We can
fly just about anywhere in the state. Sometimes getting to
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some of those further away places requires a stop on
the way to refuel, but because of the size of
our helicopter, we can get to almost everywhere. Savannahs sometimes
is a challenge, but we figure out a way to
do it. And the other thing we do we go
just about anywhere in the state. Obviously, we're not just
Atlantic centric. We don't just stay in Atlanta. There's a
lot of rural Georgia that we need to get to
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and that's that's one of the benefits of our aircraft
is because obviously, if we're on the road and driving,
it could take us several hours to get to some
of these rural areas. With this aircraft, we're to get
there much faster, to get these kids to the definitive
care that they need.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
And if there's a wreck or an emergency, whatever there
is might be, you can land right there by it.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
We can land right next to it and get that
kid to where he needs to be.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
What are some of the ones You've had some incidents
like that in the past.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Oh, We've We've responded to just about every kind of
traffic accident. It's not always an accident that we land
on a scene. Sometimes there'll be a kid on a
farm that gets bit by a snake or has some
sort of allergic reaction and can't make it to a
hospital in time, so we will actually fly to that
rural area and land in that field to get that
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kid back to where he needs to go.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Is the helicopter like the ambulance, where the helicopter's got
everything on board that you need it does.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
It's a much smaller space, but just about anything you
can do on the ambulance you can do in the helicopter.
It becomes a little more challenging because, like I said,
it's sort of like working in a phone booth man.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
That is that's remarkable to me, the ambulances and the
helicopters you have and the things they're capable of doing,
and all to save children.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Yeah, it's a great job.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
And you do this every day. We do this every day.
That helicop is going to fly off this roof and
go somewhere.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Morning, noon, night, holidays, you name it.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
We're on dating. That's great. Where can people find out
more or about what you do?
Speaker 3 (21:01):
You can find any information about us on the Children's
Healthcare of Atlina website. We've got our own page there,
and like I said, it doesn't go into details about
what we do as far as the specifics, but it
kind of gives you an idea of what our crews
look like and what our aircraft and ambulances look like.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
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Welcome to Georgia Focus. I'm John Clark and the Georgia
News Network. The eleventh annual Doc Holiday Festival the first
weekend after Labor Day at Griffin City Park in Griffin.
The Doc Holiday Festival and the Barbecue Competition is held
in Griffin every year, featuring a day of entertainment for
the whole family. This exciting event is not only free
to attend, but also offers a glimpse to the past
and present with a variety of activities and shows, including
(00:35):
the Doc Holiday Festival. Here today to talk about the
Doc Holiday Festival is Cindy Jones, President and CEO of
the Griffin Spawling Chamber of Commerce. This is the eleventh
annual Doc Holiday Festival. Talk about that.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Sure, it is returning to the Griffin City Park September sixth,
So it's always the weekend following Labor Day, okay, and
the beautifully shaded Griffin City Park. And there are live
Western reenactments from a group called Aces and Eight, and
we also have live music, so it's kind of country
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Western music in between those reenactments that go on the
main stage, and then we've got arts and crafts and
food vendors and kids activities, bounce houses and things like that,
horse back fighting, little pony rides all the while. There's
a barbecue competition going on. But Georgia Barbecue Association has
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a big barbecue competition going on. So you can purchase
a sampling of barbecue from twelve different competitors and vote
on your favorite, and then that team wins a prize
from as people's choice. So there's an additional other than
the professional judges, there's an additional way to win for that.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Now, now, how did you get started with this? I
know he's from Bruce. Up to date on his history
a little bit at the history. He's from Griffin, right
right right.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
His father was kind of a area leader in our
community and was born in Griffin. There are baptismal records
at the Presbyterian Church that he was at least a
young child, was here in Griffin and baptized. Then had
a dentistry practice on Solomon Street, so the building still
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stands where his dentistry practice was, and there are markers
in town that designate different areas of his life, so
one of them being the dentistry practice, one being the
location of the Presbyterian church, and one is at where
the home place was. The original home is no longer standing,
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but the property where his home place was is marked.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Oh gosh, so you've he's really really you know, he
lived there, that's.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
What you know. Oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah, and had
a business here. So he had a dentistry practice here. Sayetteville,
our neighboring county also says home of thought Caliday. They
kind of claim his family as well. And we believe
that there were cousins and people that they would visit
back and forth. So he may have spent enough time
(03:20):
over there to say he lived there part of his life.
But we do know he had a business here. And
just like how we'll take a day trip and go
down to Savannah or something that it was probably on horseback,
take a day or so, you know, to get over
to Fayetteville and spend a few days. So probably spent
their time back and forth. But before he went out west,
(03:44):
he was here as an adult in Griffenden and running
his dentistry practice.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Did he did he? He spent some time running or
practice in Valdosta too, didn't he before?
Speaker 2 (03:55):
I believe?
Speaker 1 (03:55):
So yeah, yeah, so so he catched tuberculosis. How do
you catch tovercials that he'd have to then go to.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
I don't know, I mean, I guess, you know, you
get that from person to person. So it could have
been a patient for all we know, but it was rampant.
A lot of people got to both of uses, and a
lot of people died from it. And probably his medical knowledge,
he knew that if he was in a drier climate
that it would it would help him. But there's also
(04:29):
stories that he'd left this area of town because he
was running from the laws and so to escape prosecution.
He also to ship Town. So don't know if that's
one hundred percent true or not, but that he did
leave and had some friends that went either went with
(04:49):
him or met along the way. And his good friends
White Erb and some of the others that he spent
time with, and of course you know, they were all gunslingers.
That's what she did. That's how you sell dispute. So
he was good at it. So he was a pretty good,
pretty good shot.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
So he was good at shooting a gun and doing
dental work.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
That was that's right, that's right, and putting some whiskey
back probably, that's right.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
The pain from tuberculosis, and it was safer to drink
than the water back in the day, so that most
people drank drank the whiskey. So he he had a
lot of a lot of things that didn't quite go
his way.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
So so you you now here it is eleven years
later and you had the Doug Holiday Festival. Did it
start out really small and it's grown over the years.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
It really it started small. It was really the barbecue
competition that started at first, and then we formed the
festival around that. That's kind of what sets the date.
And his birthday is in August, so we kind of
celebrate late annually, you know, right home a Dot Holliday.
(06:02):
But the Western reenactors kind of do like a living history.
They talk about two different scenarios, but they do highlight
the shootout shootout from the OK Corral, the sixty shots
in sixty seconds, and then they slow it down to
show you how the steps that took in those sixty.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Seconds, so it was only only lasted roughly sixty seconds.
Is that that's that's yeah, and they slow it down.
That's and I bet that's interesting though.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
It is very interesting to watch. And they have a
narrator that kind of talks about who all these characters are,
who's doing what, And they really tried to de escalate
the situation before the shooting started. And the person was
supposed to be unarmed to come to this meeting, and
so there was kind of an argument that went on
(06:52):
and then they realized this person was in fact armed
and they fired the first shot. So it was the
retaliatory shooting back and forth that that happened.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Did he did, Doc Holliday? Did he become famous as
a result of that shooting or was he? Family think
that was.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Where his fame came from. I mean, people knew him
in town. Like I said, his dad was a prominent
businessman in town. So they were ann family and you know,
one of the prominent families in the community. But that
that Okay Corral shootout is what a lot of them
are known for.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Yeah, now he's now he is buried out out there
somewhere out I don't remember where he's buried, But he's
not buried in Georgia.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Well, actually there is. There is folklore, but it's kind
of backed up with fact that one of our doctors
in town, his grandfather told the story that so this
this doctor in town is old enough to be probably
my dad's if you think about the age of the person.
(07:59):
His grandfather says that Doc Holliday's dad came to him
and said, I'm going to get him, come with me
to help me bring his body home because of grave
robbers and this, and that he was buried outside of
basically a pauper cemetery because he didn't have anything, okay,
and they buried him and they bury him with whatever
(08:19):
you're wearing, everything you got, and his dad and the
grandfather of this doctor in town went out west and
got him and brought his body home. His baby sister
is buried here in a marked grave, and so the
family cemetery is here, and it is presumed that he
(08:39):
is buried in the area.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Is there a mark or there or anything.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Not for him, Well, there is a historical marker that
talks about the Doc Holliday and Dot Calladay family doesn't
and as it's not a headstone that says this is
where he lays. But the presumption is this is probably
where he is.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Oh, that's interesting, I did not know. See you, you've
brought all these news new facts short of facts, so
sort of you.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Know, I didn't hear it from the horse's mouth. But
that's what the family says. I believe it's true because
this is what Grandpa said. And Grandpa wouldn't have made
this up. Why would he make up going up going
to do this. But you know, truly back in the day,
that's you know, they didn't hand down your belongings to
your descendants. They put them in the in the grave
with you because you really didn't have much else.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Yeah. Yeah, oh man, Well, now does he have any
any family around that the area still that were distantly related? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:35):
No, there was a nephew that was here that passed
away a couple of years ago that kind of had
a little museum here that he passed away a couple
of years ago.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Okay, so now you just have the festival, which is enough.
The festival is great. This this is great. And it
started from barbecue competition. Talking about the barbecue competition.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Well, the Georgia Barbecue Association. It they make in Griffin.
It's made up of over thirty cook teams and they
come with these giant, you know, professional cook trailers. But
they also have competitor uh opportunities for backyard grillers to
(10:16):
the people that are just getting started that haven't gotten
these nice, big pro trailers. But but yeah, they they
put in a lot of money into their equipment and
to their participation, and then they win big cash prizes
as well as the bragg And Trophy and the brag
And Rights.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
So yeah, I bet that is great. I bet the.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Partly it's really neat.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Oh yeah, yeah, who won last years? Does the same
guy win every year?
Speaker 2 (10:48):
No? Different ones? Some of the names of the teams
are very familiar. They're kind of at the top of
the top rounds of these. But but there's another person
who kind of over the barbecue competition that he organizes
that and I organize the festival. In the entertainment okay, okay,
kind of split that stuff up.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
And entertainment, what we be having, you'll be having besides
the band, the Western re enactors, besides.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
The Aces and eighths group, we have a local country artist.
Her name is Bella Dunn, the E L l A.
And she is a really sweet young girl who can
sing just about anything, and just to kind of fill
that space in between the reenactments, because it's like everything
stands still when this is going on. It draws a
(11:38):
big crowd, and we do three of those throughout the
day so people can come and watch. But it's a
really fun day at the city park where the community
to come out. It's very family friendly. Lots of that
fair food, you know, the good oh yeah, greasy stuff.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Oh that's the that's the best stuff. And I hope
you have good weather. I meant you probably have really
good yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's going to be a
rain shine she'll be there is rain.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Or shine, yeah, you know, if it's dangerous, of course
we'll call it. But it's hard because a lot of
the festival arts and crafts vendors and stuff they book
every weekend, so it's not like we can just say
we'll do it the next weekend. So there they're book
to be somewhere every weekend.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
And there, what do you have there in terms of vendors, vendors,
a type of veners.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
We'll have probably one hundred vendors of different food items,
craft items. You know these days there's a lot of
handmade soaps and lotions and scented things, and it's you know,
crochet and ceramics used to be the old fan by
(12:50):
of arts and crafts, but now there's more professional art
things that happen, and and then of course food. We've
got everything from barbecue to hot Dogzemburger's funnel cakes.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
And I was going to say, do you have things
besides now I want barbecue me, that's just what I want.
You have things besides barbecues? The you do?
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, there's there's taco trucks that oh, just
a variety of different.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Different Okay, I would go with the barbecue. That's just me.
That's just me. I'm a barbecue fan.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
There's even a little a vendor that does like panning,
like gym panning with kids where you get to find
the treasures and the things. So just just a fun
day out at the park.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Yeah, that's great. Had Doc Holiday Festival is coming up
and we're talking today with Cindy Jones of the Chamber
of Commerce there and it's in Griffin and it's gonna
be was held the weekend after Labor Day weekend, right,
that's right.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
This year to be September the sixth. Starts around ten
am in the morning and goes until five o'clock and
then they'll name the barbecue winners and then we just
kind of call it a day. There's things that happen
in downtown Griffin every second Saturday. So we try to
end our events so people can go to downtown and
do things in downtown.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Griffin right well, and talk about that a little bit.
What's what's in Griffin? I mean, this is tell us
about Griffin. I haven't been in a couple of years
to Griffin, which the radio station down there, and it really.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Has had a lot a lot going on in the
past several years. We've had a couple of new hotels
and there's another one coming that's going to be in
the downtown area. But we we have just opened a
newly renovated historic hotel that was probably a hotel when
not Calladay lived here, but so it's just been renovated
and reopened as a boutique hotel. There is a nine
(14:46):
hole putt putt course that's in downtown Griffin. So if
you're waiting on your meal, waiting for your name to
be called to go eat at the new pubs, the
new brewery, then you can go over employ nine holes
of putt putt and go eat your dinner or come afterwards.
But every second Saturday there are events downtown. There's concerts
(15:08):
during those weekends live music. These are all free to attend.
That you can just come up and listen to the
music and eat food from one of the local restaurants
or sometimes food trucks are about. So there's always something
going on in downtown.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Yeah, yeah, Now is that Doc Holidays his dental office there,
the place that was his didntal office. Is there something
in the building now or is it empty?
Speaker 2 (15:33):
It's beside the boutique hotel, but I don't know if
there's anything in there, Like, you can't go inside that.
There is a marker on the outside of the building.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Okay, so it's right by the hotel there, Yeah, okay,
I heard you mentioned that. All right, And Doc Holiday
Festival is not the only time you want to go
to Griffin. Go anytime, just go to Griffin. That's right,
that's right, Yeah, that's right. Last time I was there,
I went to see the visit the radio station, and
they're good friends of mine. They are people at the
radio station. Of course, I work at the Georgia Using network.
(16:02):
That makes sense, but I didn't know until I saw
it recently. The Doc Holiday Festival is there, and I
had to have you on the show. To talk about
that because I love Doc Holiday. Yeah, it was great.
Now can can vendors still participate? People can still talk
to you.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
We still have availability for vendors to register. They can
either go to the Chamber of Commerce website at Griffin
Chamber dot com or there is a doc Holiday website
that's doc holidays fest dot com. It's so vendor registration, sponsorship,
just information in general about what's happening is available on
(16:38):
that website or a Facebook page.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
So go and go and have fun. That's gonna be.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Fun, that's right. We encourage you to come.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Yeah, you cared you to come. Well, I thank you
so much for coming onto talking to us today about
this because it's it's it's gonna be the eleventh anual
Doc Holiday Festival. One of the world famous man from Griffin, Georgia.
It's Doc Holiday, that's right, yeah from there. So thank
you so much for coming on. I appreciate it you.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
I appreciate you having me.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
That's Cindy Jones, President and CEO of the Griffin Spaulding
Chamber of Commerce. You can find out more about the
Doc Holiday Festival at docholidayfest dot com. Children's Healthcare of
Atlanta has a Pediatric train transport team to transfer critical
patients to our three hospitals for treatment. Bill Ryan is
Critical Care Transport Manager. It talks about.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
That we have ten ambulances. We run nine a day,
so we go anywhere in the state. Our ambulances. You'll
see them if you see them on the road. They're
colorfully decorated, and you'll notice that they're usually a lot
bigger than the normal nine to one to one ambulance.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
You see.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
That's because every single one of our trucks is set
up to be sort of like a mini ICU or
even a trauma bay and an ED. We can pretty
much do anything in the back of an ambulance that
they can do in one of those rooms.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Wow, it really you got everything you need, everything we need,
and then the paramedics are trained how to handle that
stuff too.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
We actually are our crew configurations. We have a nurse
typically on board, a paramedic and or a respiratory therapist.
So yeah, and they're all trained. They go through rigorous
training to handle just about anything that comes their way.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Will they go through to to rex or something like that,
or where they just go to a hospital and then
back here.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Our ambulances actually just do inner facility, which means they
go just to hospitals and bring them back to one
of our hospitals.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Our aircraft, on the other hand, is what we call
a scene helicopter. They will land on the side of
the road if there's a traffic accident, or if there's
something out in the middle of nowhere. They'll land in
a field somewhere if we're requested.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Okay, I noticed today driving in on the top of
the building was a helicopter, and that's what of yours right,
tell us about those.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
We have two helicopters. We only fly one at a time.
Our primary helicopter, not to get too nerdy here, is
what we call an EC one. It's actually a really
big helicopter EMS and we do have a backup that
we use when obviously helicopters go down for maintenance and
things like that. But we have two helicopters. We can
fly just about anywhere in the state. Sometimes getting to
(19:10):
some of those further away places requires a stop on
the way to refuel, but because of the size of
our helicopter, we can get to almost everywhere. Savannahs sometimes
is a challenge, but we figure out a way to
do it. And the other thing we do we go
just about anywhere in the state. Obviously, we're not just
Atlantic centric. We don't just stay in Atlanta. There's a
lot of rural Georgia that we need to get to
(19:32):
and that's that's one of the benefits of our aircraft
is because obviously, if we're on the road and driving,
it could take us several hours to get to some
of these rural areas. With this aircraft, we're to get
there much faster, to get these kids to the definitive
care that they need.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
And if there's a wreck or an emergency, whatever there
is might be, you can land right there by it.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
We can land right next to it and get that
kid to where he needs to be.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
What are some of the ones You've had some incidents
like that in the past.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Oh, We've We've responded to just about every kind of
traffic accident. It's not always an accident that we land
on a scene. Sometimes there'll be a kid on a
farm that gets bit by a snake or has some
sort of allergic reaction and can't make it to a
hospital in time, so we will actually fly to that
rural area and land in that field to get that
(20:20):
kid back to where he needs to go.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Is the helicopter like the ambulance, where the helicopter's got
everything on board that you need it does.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
It's a much smaller space, but just about anything you
can do on the ambulance you can do in the helicopter.
It becomes a little more challenging because, like I said,
it's sort of like working in a phone booth man.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
That is that's remarkable to me, the ambulances and the
helicopters you have and the things they're capable of doing,
and all to save children.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Yeah, it's a great job.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
And you do this every day. We do this every day.
That helicop is going to fly off this roof and
go somewhere.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Morning, noon, night, holidays, you name it.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
We're on dating. That's great. Where can people find out
more or about what you do?
Speaker 3 (21:01):
You can find any information about us on the Children's
Healthcare of Atlina website. We've got our own page there,
and like I said, it doesn't go into details about
what we do as far as the specifics, but it
kind of gives you an idea of what our crews
look like and what our aircraft and ambulances look like.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Find out more at choa dot org. Georgia Emergency Search
and Rescue is a free service and they now have
a new search dog, Maverick. Angel Alonzo from Georgia Emergency
Search and Rescue explained.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
We're Georgia Emergency Search and Rescue and we go out
and search for kids, missing kids, all timers, dementia patients,
so forth. We do disasters. As a matter of fact,
we just got our brand new canine. His name is Maverick.
He's a chocolate lab great dog. You know, he's being
(21:52):
trained with Custom Canine Unlimited up in Gainesville, which does
a great job. We're just getting ready to put him
to work as soon as probably Wednesday or Thursday. Really
he'll be certified and be ready to go. You know,
it costs a lot of money for these dogs, so
(22:14):
we are taking donations to go ahead, and not only
to pay for the training that he's going through, but
the handler training also and to keep him with his veterinarian.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
The food.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
Everything's costly, you know, just I mean just to throw
out a figure, just a standard tracking and trailing dog.
Once he's finished, you know, you're talking about in boards
of you know, close to fifteen to twenty really wow.
So you know, every bit helps and we appreciate any
(22:51):
donations that can come in because this goes to save lives.
And that's the important part that you know, it's not
all about just getting money to pay for this dog.
It's about having the capabilities of having a canine out
there that will save lives, will bring and unite families,
(23:14):
and that is a key.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Your services are free when you go out to you
don't charge people anything. You come out, people call you
and you come and that's correct.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
You know, that's one of the main things that people
need to know. Georgia Emergency Search and Rescue is a nonprofit.
We are free. We do not charge when we are
called for law enforcement. If a family member calls us,
we can come out and we will call law enforcement
to come out and help also, but we workx site
(23:47):
by side with all law enforcement in the state of Georgia.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
What should people do and say, want to donate to
Maverick or get in touch with Georgia Emergency Search and Rescue.
What should they do?
Speaker 4 (23:57):
Well, they can go to our Facebook page which is
GSAR team on Facebook and they'll see where it says
Georgia Emergency Search and Rescue. You'll see the two vehicles
on there and where it says Georgia Emergency Search and Rescue.
They can also contact Carmen. That's c A R M. E.
(24:19):
N at Georgia Emergency Search and Rescue dot org. It's
all together one word and on the website it's just
Georgia Emergency Search and Rescue dot org. So they can
contact us through email on that or they can go
and donate right off the Facebook page.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Good Georgie Emergency Search and Rescue Angel. You guys do
great job and you're all free. Everybody know that to
call you up if you need.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
You, Yes, sir, and you know like you you're you're part
of our team. I am you know, and we appreciate
you being a in our team because you go out
to different law enforcement agencies to teach them about this
disease that takes over family members and it's a great
(25:13):
thing what you're doing, and in combination with us, we
can get the word out to help more families and
that's important.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
That's Carmen at Georgia Emergency Search and Rescue dot com.
The questions of comments on today's program, you can email
me John Clark at Georgeanewsnetwork dot com. Thanks for listening.
I'll talk to you next week right here in your
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