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The Pointing Dog Social Club is pleased to announce that SportDOG Brand has come aboard as a major sponsor for the show! Dr. John White and Zula the Dog have used SportDOG products for years of guiding. The SportsDOG label says “designed by sportsmen,” and that’s not an advertising man’s tagline. SportDOG e-collars and dog…
Sets for the Pointing Dog Social Club are created by Annie Resta with support by Vintage 615 Boutique & Vintage Market. Annie brings the perfect life experience to designing sets for the show. She was raised in South Georgia in the middle of the best quail hunting country in America. Her husband, three sons, and…
The Purple Elephant is the Official Restaurant of the Pointing Dog Social Club! Located across the courthouse square from the Dixie Theater, the Purple Elephant will offer a special menu for the day of the Pointing Dog show – Thursday, June 15th. Specialties for the day will include Deluxe “Pointing Doggies” (smoked beef franks with…
The Petersburg Horse Show dates back to at least 1884 to an event co-founded by George Carmack Gillespie and James Dwiggins. Gillespie was a member of the famed Forrest Escort, bodyguards and scouts for General Nathan Bedford Forrest. At their surrender on May 9, 1865, Captain John Watson Morton addressed the men. He told them…
Mr. M.P. Boyd built the Dixie Theatre in 1913 on the east side of the square as a silent movie house with an all-purpose stage. After burning in 1924, the building was soon renovated and remained in business until 1938 when the theatre was moved to the present site. Renovated several times over the years…
Sam DiChiara’s first foray into dog photography was an act of altruism. While a student at Auburn University, he volunteered to take photographs of orphan dogs for a local humane society. That’s how John White first learned of his great talent. “I was totally knocked out by Sam’s work. I’ve seen a lot of great…
Henry T White is truly an eleven-year-old wonder! The boy can play a guitar like a monkey can handle a peanut — and the marvelous thing about it, he’s using his super powers for good! Last summer, the boy sauntered out to a street corner in his hometown of Demopolis, Alabama and played his Gibson…
Us Two and Him have been compared to the Smothers Brothers and the Kingston Trio. Comstock agrees they might be compared to “Riders in the Sky,” a cowboy-dressed group based in the Brentwood-Green Hills area. The South Central Tennessee boys are more like characters in the Andy Griffith Show with a touch of Ray Stevens’…
Born from the plains of southeast Alabama, amongst the fertile ground in Lee County, BB Palmer & Kudzu are one of the few current old school honky-tonk outfits that stay true to the genre of country music. Simple yet intricate, humble yet proud, the band combines early traditional influences of country music (Lefty Frizzell &…