Since moving to Dahlonega at the age of three, when my dad came to teach biology at North Georgia College, I have seen an amazing change from a sleepy small college town to a vibrant music and visual art community and tourist destination. The site of the first major gold rush in the USA and located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Dahlonega is now touted as one of the best places in the U.S. to retire and a new type of rush has begun. In addition to a revived interest in the gold hi