Townsend Heritage Festival and Old Timers Day
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Townsend Visitors Center 7906 E Lamar Alexander Pkwy, Townsend, Tennessee 37882
The 20th Annual Townsend Heritage Festival and Old Timers Day includes a wide array of East Tennessee traditions and experiences for guests including bluegrass and mountain music, clogging, storytelling, children's activities, crafts by local artisans, great Southern food and semonstrations of a variety of Appalachian skills such as basketry, spinning, weaving, woodcarving, sorghum molasses and apple butter making, beekeeping and blacksmithing. The two-day festival is free for all ages, and it celebrates Southern Appalachian Mountain culture and heritage. It has been voted several times as one of the top 20 events in the Southeast.