Poppy Festival

The Good Hope Poppy Festival provides a fun day for residents and friends in downtown Good Hope, Georgia. The Poppy Festival honors the Poppy Lady, Moina Michael, born in Good Hope in 1869. Moina MIchael used the red corn poppy as a symbol to honor and raise funds for fallen WWI veterans. The tradition continues today to honor servicemen worldwide.

Good Hope Poppy Festival

Saturday May 17, 2025

9am to 4pm

190 High Shoals Road, Good Hope, GA 30641

Good Hope Together / 27th Coffee House

RAIN or SHINE

PROCEEDS WILL GO TO:

Moina Michael Poppy Project and Good Hope Together, Inc.

VOLUNTEER SIGNUP

Good Hope Poppy Festival Activities

  • Visit unique vendors - We strive to be sure that each vendor is different from the next.

  • Listen to MUSIC & live bands throughout the day

  • Food trucks

  • Ride old-fashioned hayride

  • Meet new friends and greet old-timers

  • Moina Michael History ( inside City Hall)

Student Veterans Resource Center (SVRC)at the University of Georgia. Pictured is Jon Segars, Director of the Student Veterans Resource Center at UGA and Marie Mize, Moina Michael Poppy Project.

Thank you to the City of Good Hope, Good Hope Together, and the beautiful people who attended the festival in May for making a donation of $2,642.05 to the SVRC. There are 348 student veterans at UGA and this money will help a lot of our students! Pictured is Jon Segars, Director of the Student Veterans Resource Center at UGA and Marie Mize, Moina Michael Poppy Project.

2018 Good Hope Poppy Festival proudly presented $8,500 (after all proceeds were counted) to:Walton County Veterans Memorial & Moina Michael Poppy Project: All Terrain Chair Initiative & Good Hope Veteran Memorial

2018 Good Hope Poppy Festival proudly presented $8,500 (after all proceeds were counted) to:

Walton County Veterans Memorial & Moina Michael Poppy Project: All Terrain Chair Initiative & Good Hope Veteran Memorial

2017 Good Hope Poppy Festival proudly presented $7,000 (after all proceeds were counted) to:Walton County Veterans Memorial & Moina Michael Poppy Project: All Terrain Chair Initiative

2017 Good Hope Poppy Festival proudly presented $7,000 (after all proceeds were counted) to:

Walton County Veterans Memorial & Moina Michael Poppy Project: All Terrain Chair Initiative

Shawn Lanphere, Marie Mize, Director MM Poppy Project, Mayor Jimmy Guthrie,Dennis Walters, Gail Huie Smith, Sandra Lawson Shurling, Harold Patterson, Veterans Memorial Committee

Shawn Lanphere, Marie Mize, Director MM Poppy Project, Mayor Jimmy Guthrie,

Dennis Walters, Gail Huie Smith, Sandra Lawson Shurling, Harold Patterson, Veterans Memorial Committee

2016 Good Hope Poppy Festival proudly presented $5,000 (after all proceeds were counted) to:Walton County Veterans Memorial & Moina Michael Poppy Project: All Terrain Chair Initiative

2016 Good Hope Poppy Festival proudly presented $5,000 (after all proceeds were counted) to:

Walton County Veterans Memorial & Moina Michael Poppy Project: All Terrain Chair Initiative

2015 Good Hope Poppy Festival proudly presented $5,000 (after all proceeds were counted) to:Walton County Veterans Memorial & Moina Michael Poppy Project: All Terrain Chair Initiative

2015 Good Hope Poppy Festival proudly presented $5,000 (after all proceeds were counted) to:

Walton County Veterans Memorial & Moina Michael Poppy Project: All Terrain Chair Initiative