Anyone can create a booth or enter this nationwide fair for just $1! Find fun, food, adventure & win cash and prizes to support your favorite nonprofit.
Donate cash, items, services, adventure, art, education or volunteer to get tickets. (Tickets are called “Loonies“). Look at the top right to see your balance and history.
Donate 25 cents (To local 501 (c) (3) nonprofits like FORSYTH AREA SPORTS TEAMS) or volunteer for “about” 1 minute for each loony.
99% of people at any State Fair are donors. At ours, when donors find fun or food, they scan a QR code then click a link that says “Share Good Cheer.” Everything else is automatic! A receipt shows on their phone screen and an entry into a public ledger has been made. They may show the receipt on their phone screen to make the purchase but it isn’t necessary as anyone can check the public ledger.
Your scoreboard, rank, badges, treasure hunt and donation receipts are hands free! If you are part of the 99% of people at a State Fair who are donors, skip everything else on this website and go in the main entrance now!
If you are the 1% who will volunteer to help Special Heroes, the rest of the website is for you! It will take 45 minutes to watch both instructional videos and about an hour of practice to be proficient.
There is one important thing every volunteer should know. The more cash or prizes you learn how to get, the better we do for the fund raising of our Vocational Group Home. (Described on our “about” page.) To learn how to get paid as a fund raiser for our nonprofit, you have 3 challenges! 1. Earn $1 in tips. 2. Earn $1 in sign ups. 3. Earn $1 with recycling. If you can earn $1 with each method, you know how to earn more! Later you can learn how to earn as Cast or Crew of the TV series “Special Heroes.” There is more, but these are our main methods of paying volunteers in cash and prizes to make it fun, to fund raise for us. Volunteers create the fun and food, the other 99% donate.
On the “Pirates” page there is a score card to tell you how well you are doing as a donor or volunteer.
Imagine walking towards a State Fair that has a 1776 Pirate VS British theme celebrating the “American Spirit.” George Washington created the American Spirit when he led 2,400 marines across the Delaware River on Christmas day 1776. The “George Washington Christmas Game” teaches you how to create “Gifts of the American Spirit.” Trade your gifts for fun and food at our “Great American State Fair.”
People watching the game use the top entrance. People playing the game are the volunteers.
Introducing our theme!
In 1776 the Tun Tavern was on the Delaware River at Water Street and Tun Alley in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. The Wharf for the Tun Tavern was known as “Washington’s Wharf.”
A “Tun” is a large keg of beer. The Tun Tavern was known for their fish and chips and beer. The fish was just caught hours ago! The patriots all sang and danced to the song “Yankee Doodle Dandy” that taunted the British.
The British called the 2,400 marines that George commanded “scurvy dog pirates.” The Tun Tavern was known as a notorious pirate dive bar where George Washington and Ben Franklin plotted mutiny against the British. Only patriotic volunteers could swear and spit to enter, British spies had to lie and sneak in.
When crossing the Delaware on Christmas day 1776, two out of three groups of marines turned back because of that Christmas storm. It took George 11 hours to cross the 300 yards of the Delaware River due to the ice and storm.
On that cold icy Christmas day all those 2,400 marines played the “George Washington Christmas Game” and learned how to create the American Spirit. They won at the Battle of Trenton, and that was a turning point for the American revolution.
The battle of Trenton proved the power of the American Spirit where you laugh in the face of adversity and win against all odds.
The “Crossing The Delaware Boat Parade” is one part of the George Washington Christmas Game. It will attempt to set a worlds record with exactly, 1776 boats on July 4, 2026. Each boat needs a minimum of three people. This is similar to how you operate a ski boat. Instead of a skier, you have a “skit director.” (A skit director is another name for the operator of an “interactive and live booth” at the fair.) Each boat will operate with fun and games like any other booth at the fair. The GWCG teaches volunteers the interactive software and how to win cash and prizes. You learn how to lead and livestream interactive skits as each boat will be live streaming an example of their American Spirit and their fun! Viewers at home can choose any boat and plunder or surrender booty by trading points (loonies).
We are asking some of you to volunteer to learn this software very, very well and become a “Skit Director” on one of the 1776 boats in the “Crossing The Delaware” boat parade. For this first parade, some of the boats to make up our numbers might be air mattresses or inflatable toys in a swimming pool. Ideally we get 1776 watercraft of some type, somewhere that know how to operate the software, one for each boat. This lets a Captain and lookout safely operate each boat. We will help match skit directors to boats.
Inside there are “Volunteer Missions” so you can learn how to create the American Spirit. You can “surrender the booty” for fun and food.
Registration is $1. You get four loonies for the $1 registration to our “Great American State Fair.” You can win points with games like corn hole, the karaoke challenge game, darts or earn them by volunteering to lead 250th Bithday celebrations. You can also donate to a special needs nonprofit called “Forsyth Area Sports Teams,” and get four loonies for every dollar you donate.
You will find Federal, State and local patriot celebrations at “The Pirate Dive Bar.“
In keeping with our 1776 theme there are Landlubbers, Sailors and Pirates at the Fair. Landlubbers are the donors, Sailors are the administration and Pirates are the volunteers. Landlubbers just buy (tickets) “loonies” for fun and food. Pirates and Sailors need an hour or two to learn the George Washington Christmas Game. This is practice for skit directors. Landlubbers are like 99% of the people that walk around a state fair having fun, food and watch sports and performances. They only need to use the main entrance at the top of this page. Sailors and Pirates compete in the “George Washington Christmas Game” to create the “American Spirit.” This entertains the Landlubbers so that the landlubbers will donate. If you are a landlubber, register and go through the entrance above. If you are the 1% that want to consider being a Sailor or Pirate, keep reading so you can sneak in the back way.
If you are a landlubber you can play the pen and paper version without logging in!
The nonprofit donations from Landlubbers and the volunteering from Sailors and Pirates support special populations described on our “About” page. Every volunteer minute or donation including goods and services, is on a public ledger. We “Gamify” the public ledger to create a paradigm shift in nonprofit transparency and the hilarious “George Washington Christmas Game.”
July 4, 2025 President Trump declares the beginning of a year long “Great American State Fair,” for our 250th Birthday.
The “George Washington Christmas Game” celebrates the American Spirit with some funny language! In 1776 munitions and supplies “liberated” from British ships were called “Booty.” The British called our marines “Scurvy Dog Pirates!” A Dubloon was a gold Spanish coin all pirates wanted. It was commonly called a “loony.” We measure volunteering to create the “American Spirit” by the loony minute. 1 loony = 1 minute. If you like what a pirate did to “Share Good Cheer,” surrendered booty from your account goes into the Pirates’ account. You both get a score measured in “booty.” Biggest loony booty wins!
250 years ago a group of fishermen, hunters and farmers created a secret weapon to defeat the British. Some of the marines going across the Delaware River with George Washington would be unarmed musicians marching into the center of battle singing and playing “Yankee Doodle Dandy.” The worse the battle got the happier they would play and sing even when mortally wounded. The good cheer from the music created high morale and inspired the good deeds of fighting courageously. Our pirates were out gunned, out numbered and an all volunteer force fighting with hunting weapons, small fishing boats and farm tools. They regularly defeated a vastly superior enemy by creating the good cheer of “The American Spirit.” To this day, “Yankee Doodle Dandy” is the number 1 song played in fife and drum competitions. The unarmed marine volunteer musicians who marched into battle playing and singing “Yankee Doodle Dandy” became our country’s first rock stars.
The GWCG makes it very easy to organize fun, games, skits, competitions and volunteers to celebrate our 250th birthday or any party. It is also a great way to manage duties at your business, break room or family. It does what George Washington did, create the good cheer of the American Spirit.
This is a score board for the American Spirit!
People that don’t know how to play (Landlubbers), can be part of your team. They are given simple directions or just watch. They play alongside dedicated volunteers who know how to play and keep score. This makes the George Washington Christmas Game all inclusive and any “Special Hero” can play.
If Landlubbers are crafty enough they can catfish the catfishers and out bark the carnival barkers and end up with the biggest booty. Smart Landlubbers definitely have the best chance to win the “President For A Day” contest by just having fun. Sailors and Pirates have to compete to win.
Sailors do the serious work at a state fair such as safety, administration and construction. Pirates create the fun and food. Since booths can be located anywhere in the world, Sailors and Pirates should choose volunteering that helps the community where they live. It can be for any cause that improves the health and wellness of their location or just helps somebody smile. Watch the video on the HELP page and that should make sense.
Volunteers have a challenge. You are $1 in the hole after you register. Can you get at least a $1 tip for your volunteering to break even then another dollar in fund raising commission to be up $1? Once you do that, you compete with other volunteers for the “Biggest Booty.”
The first thing you do is watch the instructional video so you know how to “recycle” for cash tips, and how to show a QR code for donation referrals. You may get 10% commision each time your referral donates. You see it immediatly in your public account each time they donate. The “Public Ledger” is on the “Pirates” page.
Earning your first cash dollar in tips (recycling) as a scurvy dog “carnival barker” is your initiation into the “Atlanta Volunteers.”
When 10 people register from your QR code you get “Clubhouse” privileges at our clubouse on Lake Lanier when the construction finishes. Depending on how well you share the American Spirit, you could earn cash, prizes, crew share or be cast or crew on a TV series called “Special Heroes.” Some of the rewards are spectacular!
You start with very easy and fun volunteering to learn the GWCG. Typical volunteer “Gifts” of the American Spirit are 1 to 25 minutes and do fun and simple things like make hot chocolate, clean a winshield, teach a scuba skill, take a Karaoke Challenge, take somebody sailing or sing or not sing “Yankee Doodle Dandy.” Once you play the game a few times and know how volunteer minutes are traded, you can move onto some very effective volunteering for your community. You “get loony” from Landlubbers supporting your volunteer mission. Loonies can be recycled for tips or traded for prizes.
To begin, after watching the instructional video take about 10 minutes to create your first gift of the American Spirit. It is about 1 minute to create each gift after that, but some gifts you might work on for days or weeks to do something amazing for your community!
Volunteer time is a universal currency. More stable and desired than gold, oil, real estate or jewels. You can’t counterfeit it or steal it. Every man decides the value of their time and what they will trade for it.
This website contains volunteer activities for our 250th birthday and a TV series called “Special Heroes.” During the TV series, instead of fixing up a house, garden or car a group of friends and family turns a Special Hero into a Super Hero. This is done by solving quality of life issues such as employment, housing or the pursuit of happiness. By registering with $1 for the 250th Birthday Celebrations you will be able to watch this crowd sourced interactive TV series. A quick peek at the episode structure is here, instructional video here. The George Washington Christmas Game is a surprising way to create “Good Cheer” for “Special Heroes.” Only “test” data is in the site as it is in beta testing during pre-production ending on July 1. Production starts on July 3 with B roll of the “Crossing The Delaware Boat Parade.”
The marines were an innovative mix of volunteers. Why did they volunteer?