If you are looking for a unique way to celebrate the ending of 2022 and the beginning of a new year, you will want to know about Tallapoosa's New Year's Eve celebration called the The Possum Drop New Year's Eve Celebration.

There will be live music performances by The M-80's and Satisfaction which is a Rolling Stones Tribute Band. 

Additionally there will be food vendors, carnival rides and games, fireworks, a kids zone, and an early drop at 9 p.m. with fireworks for the kids, and more.

Before you get concerned about the harming of an innocent possum know that the city has never have used a live possum for The Possum Drop. 

Tallapoosa instead uses a taxidermied possum in the Possum Drop (and the poor guy was already dead when Ben Jones the taxidermist found it in the road well before the Possum Drop started). 

Graphic courtesy of Tallapoosa, Georgia

The tradition of the Possum Drop started in the mid-1990s because Tallapoosa was once known as Possum Snout (because of a local Native American Chief) and the citizens thought it would be a humorous, playful, and unique way to bring in the New Year.