Viral sensation 'bear hunt' comes to Habersham County neighborhood

By Kimberly Brown

  • Artist and author Jan Walker holds the stuffed rabbit she has displayed at her house on Chambers Avenue in the Tower Mountain neighborhood of Cornelia. Walker also has two stuffed cats displayed as part of the neighborhood’s “bear hunt,” which is an effort to give children something to do while “sheltering in place” during the coronavirus pandemic.
    Artist and author Jan Walker holds the stuffed rabbit she has displayed at her house on Chambers Avenue in the Tower Mountain neighborhood of Cornelia. Walker also has two stuffed cats displayed as part of the neighborhood’s “bear hunt,” which is an effort to give children something to do while “sheltering in place” during the coronavirus pandemic.
  • This stuffed panda can be seen in a window of a house on Short Avenue in the Tower Mountain neighborhood in Cornelia.
    This stuffed panda can be seen in a window of a house on Short Avenue in the Tower Mountain neighborhood in Cornelia.
  • Winnie the Pooh waits to be found in this window on Grand Avenue in the Tower Mountain neighborhood in Cornelia.
    Winnie the Pooh waits to be found in this window on Grand Avenue in the Tower Mountain neighborhood in Cornelia.
   What do you do with kids who are forced to stay home, but who can’t socialize or have friends over? Take them on a bear hunt!    That was the thinking of Angela Highsmith, who introduced the idea…

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