THE 37th ANNUAL SAN GENNARO FEAST. RETURNS TO LAS VEGAS. MAY 4-8 (2016). The San Gennaro Feast is the biggest Italian food and music festival held bi-annually in honor of the Saint Gennaro, the Patron Saint of Naples, Italy.
Reptiles, Amphibians, and Fish. The largest swamp in North America, the Okefenokee Swamp covers roughly 700 square miles and is located in the southeastern corner of Georgia, encompassing most of Charlton and Ware counties and parts of Brantley and Clinch counties.he swamp has a distinctive and fascinating natural history. Cypress swamps, winding waterways, and floating peat mats are a major part of the Okefenokee's habitat mosaic. Wet and dry prairies, swamps dominated by shrubs, and forests of black gum and bay trees intersperse the array of other habitats.
On the west side of the swamp, at Billy's Island, logging equipment and other artifacts remain of a 1920s logging town of 600 residents. Most of the Okefenokee Swamp is included in the 403,000-acre (1,630 km 2) Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge.he swamp was formed over the past 6,500 years by the accumulation of peat in a shallow basin on the edge of an ancient Atlantic coastal terrace, the geological relic of a Pleistocene estuary.