Plan to get to Main Street early in order to watch the parade, enjoy freshly made pancakes and purchase a souvenir t-shirt. The 2008 Tucker Day shirts were a hot commodity and unfortunately sold our long before the days activities came to an end. Bands will play throughout the day and the festival usually runs early morning until around 4pm at which point the street market is replaced with the cars for the cruise-in.

Attendance at the Annual Tucker Day festivities is a wonderful way to show your support for local area businesses and the revitalization of Tucker’s Downtown Core Area. In addition, the proceeds of the pancake breakfast support the 2008 Georgia State Champion Tucker High School Football team and Quarterback Club while the 5K run benefits the Tucker High School Marching Band and Booster Club.

See the complete Tucker Day schedule.

The 2009 sale will be held on the last Saturday in April, the 25th, from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. The sale will be held in the parking lot of Northlake Mall, near LaVista Road on the Macy’s side.

In addition the the plant bargains and wonderful growing advice, the DMGA plant sale also offers a offers a way for our community to give back the group that established the butterfly garden at the Old Tucker Courthouse in 2008.  Designed by Regina Lorenz, this garden provides plants for the complete life cycle of a variety of butterflies.

More information about the Dekalb Master Gardeners Association and their activities can be found by visiting the website DMGA.org.

The reunion will be held at Villa Christina in Dunwoody on August 1, 2009. Tickets are $77 per person until May 1 when the price increases to $88. More information can be found on the class web site, HHS79.com or directly from Veleta (Holley) Floren, 770-978-3975.

Several Tucker organizations offered entertainment for the kids on Main Street.  There was free eggnog and sugar cookies that the kids were allowed to decorate from Publix.  The Tucker Historical Society hosted a table at which the children could decorate Christmas ornaments and Tucker Lodge #42 had two fire pits where the crowd was invited to roast marshmallows and make s’mores.

A few of the shops on Main Street were hosting open houses. Both Market on Main and Stephen Harvey Salon had nice crowds milling about while a few of the other shops on Main appeared to be open but non-participants in the celebration. hopefully next year even more merchants will participate and also your roving Tuckerpedia reporter checks her camera batteries before departing her tiny Tucker abode.

If you have any photos from the event you would like to share, please submit them to info@tuckerpedia.com.

This is the 14th year Billy Bob has offered free food to patrons in exchange for a cash donation or new toy. Billy Bob’s always has a great turn out for his Christmas Party so you would be well advised to go a little early if you want a seat. This year the festivities are slated to begin around 6pm.

The Blue Ribbon Grill is located close to Northlake Mall at 4006 Lavista Road, Tucker GA. They are next door to Micheal’s and across from street from Braircliff Village. Opened in 1985, The Blue Ribbon Grill evokes bygone days. The bar has a wall of framed caricature portraits of regular patrons, like Hollywood’s Brown Derby, while the dining room is decorated in World War II recruiting posters, military flags, and black-and-white photographs. The Blue Ribbon grill is well known for their friendly and personable staff in addition to a devoted regular bar crowd.

If you have never been on the Tucker Garden tour, it is highly recommended. Advance tickets are $12.00 and increase to $15.00 on the day of the event. The tour includes five of the most beautiful gardens in Tucker and the surrounding areas and also features Tucker Artist Guild “Artists in the Garden”.

More information can be found at the Tucker Historical Society.

The weather was outstanding and vendors sales were very brisk beginning at 8:30am. The GHS vendors included many local and regional growers of hostas, ferns, Japanese maples and other companion plants in addition to vendors that offered unique garden accessories and the Georgia Daylily Society.

The show was well organized and had a record number of entries for the Artistic Exhibition. As one of the oldest local Hosta Societies in the United States, the GHS holds the distinction of having the most local shows of any group within the American Hosta Society. GHS holds these shows as an educational project to help introduce the general public to the genus hosta. Hosta leaves are displayed in vases and are judged by panels of judges accredited by The American Hosta Society.

The Hosta Show and Sale was held on the same day as the “Tucker Garden Tour” hosted by the Tucker Historical Society and allowed gardening enthusiasts a rare opportunity to combine a plant show, garden tours and shopping in one day.

In 1958, President Dwight Eisenhower signed the bill which made Alaska a state, stereo records went on sale for the first time and Elizabeth Taylor was wrapping up only her 3rd divorce. (with then-husband Michael Todd) Meanwhile, a proud band of Tucker residents were sealing a time capsule, set to be revealed a distant 50 years into the future.

The Tucker Historical Society and the DeKalb Historical Society will be cracking open the time capsule for a rare glimpse into the history of Tucker and DeKalb County at 10:00 a.m.

The Tucker Day Celebration is renowned for its annual offering of live music, food, arts, crafts, parade, children’s activities and games. This year, several additional events have been added, including: a comprehensive health fair, pancake breakfast,5K road race, a cruise-in and Walter Reeves, Host of WSB’s Lawn & Garden Show.