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LAKE CITY — Residents and visitors filled downtown Lake City streets as the annual Greatest Fourth in the North festival got under way Friday.

The Emory community will gather to celebrate holidays in the coming weeks with musical programs, conversations and special religious services. Learn about the festivities.

When Hannah Kreuziger was a senior in high school, she lost her dad unexpectedly. And everything changed. “It was a very difficult time,” recalls Kreuziger, who graduated from Emory’s Oxford College on May 15. “I was coming up on all the major milestones, like college acceptance, graduation, senior prom, my eighteenth birthday, all these events.” And suddenly, her father was not there to share them. A high school counselor, seeing Kreuziger’s struggle with grief, suggested she start writing letters to her dad as a coping mechanism to, as Kreuziger puts it, “get through it in a h...