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SUMMARY:Battle of Island Flats 250th Anniversary Commemoration
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special 250th anniversary commemoration interpreting the Battle of Island Flats\n— the first major battle of the Cherokee War of 1776 and one of the opening conflicts of the\nAmerican Revolution on the southern frontier — on Saturday\, July 25\, from 10 am to 3 pm\nand Sunday\, July 26\, from noon to 3 pm at Exchange Place Living History Farm\, 4812\nOrebank Road in Kingsport.\nFought near the Long Island of the Holston in July 1776\, the battle saw frontier settlers and\nVirginia militia from Virginia’s New River Valley clash with Cherokee warriors led by Dragging\nCanoe during a coordinated campaign against the expanding settlements along the Holston\,\nWatauga\, and Nolichucky rivers. The battle marked a major turning point in the struggle for\ncontrol of the southern Appalachian frontier and helped open Southwest Virginia\, upper East\nTennessee\, and eventually Kentucky to expanding settlement.\nAt this two-day commemoration Cherokee interpreters from the Appalachian region and\nVirginia militia living historians will bring the frontier world of the 18th-century to life near the\nvery landscape where these dramatic events unfolded. Visitors will experience:\n* Living History Encampments – Explore authentic frontier camps and learn about daily life on\nthe Tennessee frontier during the Revolutionary era\n* Cherokee Cultural Interpretations – Learn about Cherokee history\, lifeways\, and the broader\nCherokee War of 1776. Displays/activities will include regional Native American artifacts with\nthe tribal archaeologist on hand to answer questions\, Cherokee leather crafts and Native\nAmerican music played on a Cherokee flute throughout the day\n*Historic Foodways – Discover the foods\, cooking methods\, and survival skills used by\nfrontier settlers and Cherokee communities.\n*Battlefield Interpretation – Learn how the battle unfolded through maps\, historical analysis\nand interpretation of the Island Flats battlefield.\n*Historic Weapons Demonstrations – See period long rifles\, trade guns and other historic\nfirearms with scheduled firing demonstrations and a display of war clubs with a weapons\ndemonstration by the Cherokee War Chief.\n*Primary Sources & Historical Documents – View reproductions of original Revolutionary-era\ndocuments relating to the battle and its aftermath.\nOn Sunday\, July 26\, at 1 pm\, Cherokee Medicine Man Lee “Ewani” Eames will give a\npresentation on “The Healing Herbs of the Appalachian Mountains.” He will bring with him\nsome of the herbs that our ancestors have used for centuries throughout east Tennessee and\nsurrounding areas\, that have helped to heal and sustain both European and Native American\ndescendants alike.\nSponsored by Hamlett-Dobson Funeral Homes and Exchange Place\, this free event is part of\nFun Fest. No ticket or registration is required. For more information and updates\, contact\n713–825–9131 or wooldrickfritts@gmail.com or see\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/exchange-place-kingsport-tn-1850s-farm/battle-of-island-\nflats-commemoration/1438188830844429/
URL:https://northeasttennessee.org/event/battle-of-island-flats-250th-anniversary-commemoration/2026-07-26/
LOCATION:Exchange Place: Living History Farm\, 4812 Orebank Rd.\, Kingsport\, TN\, 37664\, United States
CATEGORIES:General,Historical Events
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SUMMARY:Battle of Island Flats 250th Anniversary Commemoration
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special 250th anniversary commemoration interpreting the Battle of Island Flats\n— the first major battle of the Cherokee War of 1776 and one of the opening conflicts of the\nAmerican Revolution on the southern frontier — on Saturday\, July 25\, from 10 am to 3 pm\nand Sunday\, July 26\, from noon to 3 pm at Exchange Place Living History Farm\, 4812\nOrebank Road in Kingsport.\nFought near the Long Island of the Holston in July 1776\, the battle saw frontier settlers and\nVirginia militia from Virginia’s New River Valley clash with Cherokee warriors led by Dragging\nCanoe during a coordinated campaign against the expanding settlements along the Holston\,\nWatauga\, and Nolichucky rivers. The battle marked a major turning point in the struggle for\ncontrol of the southern Appalachian frontier and helped open Southwest Virginia\, upper East\nTennessee\, and eventually Kentucky to expanding settlement.\nAt this two-day commemoration Cherokee interpreters from the Appalachian region and\nVirginia militia living historians will bring the frontier world of the 18th-century to life near the\nvery landscape where these dramatic events unfolded. Visitors will experience:\n* Living History Encampments – Explore authentic frontier camps and learn about daily life on\nthe Tennessee frontier during the Revolutionary era\n* Cherokee Cultural Interpretations – Learn about Cherokee history\, lifeways\, and the broader\nCherokee War of 1776. Displays/activities will include regional Native American artifacts with\nthe tribal archaeologist on hand to answer questions\, Cherokee leather crafts and Native\nAmerican music played on a Cherokee flute throughout the day\n*Historic Foodways – Discover the foods\, cooking methods\, and survival skills used by\nfrontier settlers and Cherokee communities.\n*Battlefield Interpretation – Learn how the battle unfolded through maps\, historical analysis\nand interpretation of the Island Flats battlefield.\n*Historic Weapons Demonstrations – See period long rifles\, trade guns and other historic\nfirearms with scheduled firing demonstrations and a display of war clubs with a weapons\ndemonstration by the Cherokee War Chief.\n*Primary Sources & Historical Documents – View reproductions of original Revolutionary-era\ndocuments relating to the battle and its aftermath.\nOn Sunday\, July 26\, at 1 pm\, Cherokee Medicine Man Lee “Ewani” Eames will give a\npresentation on “The Healing Herbs of the Appalachian Mountains.” He will bring with him\nsome of the herbs that our ancestors have used for centuries throughout east Tennessee and\nsurrounding areas\, that have helped to heal and sustain both European and Native American\ndescendants alike.\nSponsored by Hamlett-Dobson Funeral Homes and Exchange Place\, this free event is part of\nFun Fest. No ticket or registration is required. For more information and updates\, contact\n713–825–9131 or wooldrickfritts@gmail.com or see\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/exchange-place-kingsport-tn-1850s-farm/battle-of-island-\nflats-commemoration/1438188830844429/
URL:https://northeasttennessee.org/event/battle-of-island-flats-250th-anniversary-commemoration/2026-07-25/
LOCATION:Exchange Place: Living History Farm\, 4812 Orebank Rd.\, Kingsport\, TN\, 37664\, United States
CATEGORIES:General,Historical Events
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SUMMARY:40th Annual Spring Garden Fair
DESCRIPTION:Exchange Place Living History Farm\, located at 4812 Orebank Road in\nKingsport\, invites you to celebrate the blossoming of spring at its 40 th annual Spring Garden\nFair on April 25 (10am-5pm) and 26 (12pm-5pm). Please join us at the oldest garden fair in our\nregion – and a destination-event for area gardeners – to welcome the season with beautiful\nplants\, then stay to travel back to the 1850s to experience life on a historical farm and enjoy\nheritage craft and animal demonstrations\, homemade food\, live music\, and engaging children’s\nactivities. Admission is $5 for everyone age 12 and older; there is no fee for children under 12.\nThe Spring Garden Fair features nearly 70 vendors (the most ever!)\, with thousands of plants\nfor sale\, including perennials\, annuals\, trees and shrubs – with a special focus on herbs\, native\nand heirloom plants (including a wide variety of heirloom tomatoes). Also for sale will be a\nvariety of garden-related arts and crafts\, like wind chimes\, bird feeders and houses\, hand-built\npottery\, homemade soaps\, organic hair and skin oils\, flavored cooking extracts\, and blown-glass\ndécor\, knitted blankets\, and jewelry. Whether you are a seasoned gardener or ready to start\nyour first window-sill herb\, the Fair will offer just what you need – not to mention guidance from\nthe Northeast Tennessee Master Gardeners and other gardening experts.\nThe Kingsport Community Band opens the Fair at 10am on Saturday; other local musicians will\nperform every hour throughout the weekend Fair.\nChildren will be busy as bees with fun nature-based crafts. Near the Preston House\, children\ncan make flower crowns to take home or wear as they dance around the Maypole (Saturday at\n2pm\, Sunday at 3pm) to tunes performed by the Junior Apprentice’s (JA) Old-Time Band.\nThe JA’s are a group of youth age 12-18 who learn about history and skills associated with rural\nearly American life in northeast Tennessee. For an additional $5\, children can weave a basket\nat the Schoolhouse with the Tri-State Basket Guild; all fees will be used to purchase feed for\nExchange Place’s (EP) beloved animals. Children can also try paper-making on the Roseland\nporch.\nNew this year\, Talon Ridge Raptor Institute\, a Kingsport-based non-profit\, will present their\nEurasian Eagle-Owl and discuss their work to rescue injured raptors and their plans to develop\nthe area’s only raptor rehabilitation facility.\nVisit two of EP’s heritage animal residents in the pasture behind the Burow Museum: Bliss\, an\nAmerican Devon milking cow (a female with horns!) and Jenny\, a Jerusalem donkey. As a\nbonus\, two cute-as-pie baby lambs will be visiting EP for the Spring Fair. Five chickens can be\nfound behind the demonstration garden.\nKeeping a long-standing seasonal ritual\, TJ DeWitt will hand-shear EP’s five resident Cotswold \nsheep in the area between the Burow Museum and Quilt Barn. One sheep will be sheared at\neach of these times: Saturday at 11am\, 1pm\, and 3pm\, then Sunday at 1pm and 3pm.\nAfter visiting the animals\, walk next door to Roseland where the Overmountain Weavers Guild\nwill card the wool sheared from EP’s sheep and spin it into yarn as part of their “sheep to shawl”\ndemonstration!\nOther heritage attractions: On the front porch of the Preston House\, John Alexander will\ndemonstrate heritage broom-making (Saturday only)\, and Dorothy McMillan will make corn-husk\ndolls (Saturday and Sunday); completed projects will be available for sale.  Interpreters\, dressed\nin traditional attire from the 1850s\, will share the history of EP in the Gaines Store\, the\nGathering Room of the Preston House\, the Cook’s Cabin\, the Blacksmith Forge\, and the\nKitchen. Eden’s Ridge Hearth Cookery Society and the JAs will be churning butter (Saturday)\nand baking (Sunday) in EP’s Kitchen. The JAs will also be working in the garden\, around the\nwood shed\, and shaping iron over the Blacksmith Forge. Don’t miss the chance to participate in\nthe JA’s Tennessee Dancing Gourd Spin-Off near the Cook’s Cabin on both days of the Fair.\nAfter touring the vendors and demonstrations\, visit the Museum Gift Shop\, fully stocked with\nvintage toys and EP-branded items as well as handcrafted arts and crafts from regional artists.\nFood vendors will sell barbeque\, beef and vegetarian hot dogs\, freshly squeezed lemonade\,\ncoffee\, roasted (on site) almonds and other nuts\, kettle corn\, ice cream\, cinnamon rolls\, cookies\,\npound cake\, coffee cake\, bread\, and fresh eggs throughout the weekend.\nFor more information\, please visit the Exchange Place (EP) website\n(exchangeplacetn.org)\, follow us on Facebook (ExchangePlaceKingsport) and Instagram\n(exchangeplacetn)\, or call 423-288-6071.\nExchange Place is a non-profit\, volunteer-run living history farm\, educational facility and\nregional attraction that seeks to preserve\, protect\, interpret\, and manage the history\, heritage\,\nand artifacts related to mid-19 th century farm life in Northeast Tennessee. \nMusic Schedule for Saturday\, April 25 \n10am-11am  Kingsport Community Band\n11am-12N    PineyPicker Dulcimer Group\n12N-1pm      Renaissance Strings Dulcimers\n1pm-2pm      Jim and Ann Gates\n2pm-3pm      Junior Apprentice Band/ May Pole Dancing\n3pm-4pm      "Red and Grey" \nMusic Schedule for Sunday\, April 26 \n12N-1pm Richard Phillips\n1pm-2pm        Martha Egan – Bring a Pennywhistle to play; no experience required.\n2pm-3pm        State Street String Band\n3pm-4pm        JA Band/May Pole Dancing
URL:https://northeasttennessee.org/event/40th-annual-spring-garden-fair/2026-04-26/
LOCATION:Exchange Place: Living History Farm\, 4812 Orebank Rd.\, Kingsport\, TN\, 37664\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts/Crafts,Festivals,Food/Drink,General,Historical Events,Outdoors,Shopping
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SUMMARY:Exchange Place Spring Garden Fair
DESCRIPTION:Exchange Place Spring Garden Fair\nSaturday\, April 25\, 10 am until 5 pm\nSunday\, April 26\, noon until 5 pm \nDemonstrations of springtime activities on a mid-19 th century farmstead are interspersed with\nthousands of plants being offered for sale with an emphasis on natives\, herbs\, perennials\, and\nheirloom plants\, along with garden accessories and related arts and crafts.  Traditional music\, period\ndemonstrations\, old-fashioned foods\, children’s activities\, and our resident animals are all important\nparts of the event. Admission to this festival\, begun in 1984\, is $5 for adults and free for children\nunder 12.  For more information\, call 423-288-6071 or visit www.exchangeplacetn.org.
URL:https://northeasttennessee.org/event/exchange-place-spring-garden-fair-5/2026-04-26/
LOCATION:Exchange Place: Living History Farm\, 4812 Orebank Rd.\, Kingsport\, TN\, 37664\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts/Crafts,Children's Activities,Festivals,General,Music,Outdoors
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SUMMARY:Exchange Place Spring Garden Fair
DESCRIPTION:Exchange Place Spring Garden Fair\nSaturday\, April 25\, 10 am until 5 pm\nSunday\, April 26\, noon until 5 pm \nDemonstrations of springtime activities on a mid-19 th century farmstead are interspersed with\nthousands of plants being offered for sale with an emphasis on natives\, herbs\, perennials\, and\nheirloom plants\, along with garden accessories and related arts and crafts.  Traditional music\, period\ndemonstrations\, old-fashioned foods\, children’s activities\, and our resident animals are all important\nparts of the event. Admission to this festival\, begun in 1984\, is $5 for adults and free for children\nunder 12.  For more information\, call 423-288-6071 or visit www.exchangeplacetn.org.
URL:https://northeasttennessee.org/event/exchange-place-spring-garden-fair-5/2026-04-25/
LOCATION:Exchange Place: Living History Farm\, 4812 Orebank Rd.\, Kingsport\, TN\, 37664\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts/Crafts,Children's Activities,Festivals,General,Music,Outdoors
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SUMMARY:40th Annual Spring Garden Fair
DESCRIPTION:Exchange Place Living History Farm\, located at 4812 Orebank Road in\nKingsport\, invites you to celebrate the blossoming of spring at its 40 th annual Spring Garden\nFair on April 25 (10am-5pm) and 26 (12pm-5pm). Please join us at the oldest garden fair in our\nregion – and a destination-event for area gardeners – to welcome the season with beautiful\nplants\, then stay to travel back to the 1850s to experience life on a historical farm and enjoy\nheritage craft and animal demonstrations\, homemade food\, live music\, and engaging children’s\nactivities. Admission is $5 for everyone age 12 and older; there is no fee for children under 12.\nThe Spring Garden Fair features nearly 70 vendors (the most ever!)\, with thousands of plants\nfor sale\, including perennials\, annuals\, trees and shrubs – with a special focus on herbs\, native\nand heirloom plants (including a wide variety of heirloom tomatoes). Also for sale will be a\nvariety of garden-related arts and crafts\, like wind chimes\, bird feeders and houses\, hand-built\npottery\, homemade soaps\, organic hair and skin oils\, flavored cooking extracts\, and blown-glass\ndécor\, knitted blankets\, and jewelry. Whether you are a seasoned gardener or ready to start\nyour first window-sill herb\, the Fair will offer just what you need – not to mention guidance from\nthe Northeast Tennessee Master Gardeners and other gardening experts.\nThe Kingsport Community Band opens the Fair at 10am on Saturday; other local musicians will\nperform every hour throughout the weekend Fair.\nChildren will be busy as bees with fun nature-based crafts. Near the Preston House\, children\ncan make flower crowns to take home or wear as they dance around the Maypole (Saturday at\n2pm\, Sunday at 3pm) to tunes performed by the Junior Apprentice’s (JA) Old-Time Band.\nThe JA’s are a group of youth age 12-18 who learn about history and skills associated with rural\nearly American life in northeast Tennessee. For an additional $5\, children can weave a basket\nat the Schoolhouse with the Tri-State Basket Guild; all fees will be used to purchase feed for\nExchange Place’s (EP) beloved animals. Children can also try paper-making on the Roseland\nporch.\nNew this year\, Talon Ridge Raptor Institute\, a Kingsport-based non-profit\, will present their\nEurasian Eagle-Owl and discuss their work to rescue injured raptors and their plans to develop\nthe area’s only raptor rehabilitation facility.\nVisit two of EP’s heritage animal residents in the pasture behind the Burow Museum: Bliss\, an\nAmerican Devon milking cow (a female with horns!) and Jenny\, a Jerusalem donkey. As a\nbonus\, two cute-as-pie baby lambs will be visiting EP for the Spring Fair. Five chickens can be\nfound behind the demonstration garden.\nKeeping a long-standing seasonal ritual\, TJ DeWitt will hand-shear EP’s five resident Cotswold \nsheep in the area between the Burow Museum and Quilt Barn. One sheep will be sheared at\neach of these times: Saturday at 11am\, 1pm\, and 3pm\, then Sunday at 1pm and 3pm.\nAfter visiting the animals\, walk next door to Roseland where the Overmountain Weavers Guild\nwill card the wool sheared from EP’s sheep and spin it into yarn as part of their “sheep to shawl”\ndemonstration!\nOther heritage attractions: On the front porch of the Preston House\, John Alexander will\ndemonstrate heritage broom-making (Saturday only)\, and Dorothy McMillan will make corn-husk\ndolls (Saturday and Sunday); completed projects will be available for sale.  Interpreters\, dressed\nin traditional attire from the 1850s\, will share the history of EP in the Gaines Store\, the\nGathering Room of the Preston House\, the Cook’s Cabin\, the Blacksmith Forge\, and the\nKitchen. Eden’s Ridge Hearth Cookery Society and the JAs will be churning butter (Saturday)\nand baking (Sunday) in EP’s Kitchen. The JAs will also be working in the garden\, around the\nwood shed\, and shaping iron over the Blacksmith Forge. Don’t miss the chance to participate in\nthe JA’s Tennessee Dancing Gourd Spin-Off near the Cook’s Cabin on both days of the Fair.\nAfter touring the vendors and demonstrations\, visit the Museum Gift Shop\, fully stocked with\nvintage toys and EP-branded items as well as handcrafted arts and crafts from regional artists.\nFood vendors will sell barbeque\, beef and vegetarian hot dogs\, freshly squeezed lemonade\,\ncoffee\, roasted (on site) almonds and other nuts\, kettle corn\, ice cream\, cinnamon rolls\, cookies\,\npound cake\, coffee cake\, bread\, and fresh eggs throughout the weekend.\nFor more information\, please visit the Exchange Place (EP) website\n(exchangeplacetn.org)\, follow us on Facebook (ExchangePlaceKingsport) and Instagram\n(exchangeplacetn)\, or call 423-288-6071.\nExchange Place is a non-profit\, volunteer-run living history farm\, educational facility and\nregional attraction that seeks to preserve\, protect\, interpret\, and manage the history\, heritage\,\nand artifacts related to mid-19 th century farm life in Northeast Tennessee. \nMusic Schedule for Saturday\, April 25 \n10am-11am  Kingsport Community Band\n11am-12N    PineyPicker Dulcimer Group\n12N-1pm      Renaissance Strings Dulcimers\n1pm-2pm      Jim and Ann Gates\n2pm-3pm      Junior Apprentice Band/ May Pole Dancing\n3pm-4pm      "Red and Grey" \nMusic Schedule for Sunday\, April 26 \n12N-1pm Richard Phillips\n1pm-2pm        Martha Egan – Bring a Pennywhistle to play; no experience required.\n2pm-3pm        State Street String Band\n3pm-4pm        JA Band/May Pole Dancing
URL:https://northeasttennessee.org/event/40th-annual-spring-garden-fair/2026-04-25/
LOCATION:Exchange Place: Living History Farm\, 4812 Orebank Rd.\, Kingsport\, TN\, 37664\, United States
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SUMMARY:Christmas in the Country
DESCRIPTION:Christmas in the Country at Exchange Place Living History Farm\, 4812 Orebank Road in Kingsport\, will be held Saturday\, December 6\, from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Fresh greenery\, wreaths and roping\, unique folk arts and handicrafts\, and traditional holiday foods will be on sale. The celebration also features demonstrations of winter time activities on the 19th century farmstead and hands-on experiences for all ages. Admission is $5 for adults and free for children under 12. For more information\, 423-288-6071 or https://exchangeplacetn.org/. The traditional Yule Log Ceremony with carol singing around the bonfire and a cauldron of wassail\, Exchange Place’s free gift to the community\, begins at 4:15 p.m.
URL:https://northeasttennessee.org/event/christmas-in-the-country-3/
LOCATION:Exchange Place: Living History Farm\, 4812 Orebank Rd.\, Kingsport\, TN\, 37664\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts/Crafts,Children's Activities,General
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SUMMARY:Fall Folk Arts Festival
DESCRIPTION:Kingsport\, TN – Autumn is arguably the most beautiful time of year in Northeast Tennessee and Southwest\nVirginia\, and Exchange Place Living History Farm gives it the welcome it deserves with its annual Fall\nFolk Arts Festival. Always eagerly anticipated\, this year’s event will be held on Saturday\, September 27\,\nfrom 10 am until 5 pm\, and Sunday\, September 28 from noon until 5 pm. Admission is $5 for ages\n12 and over\, with those under the age of 12 admitted free. Proceeds go towards the care of the farm’s\nresident animals\, and are also used in the ongoing restoration and preservation of the site\, located at 4812\nOrebank Road in Kingsport\, Tennessee\, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.\nFor the 53 rd year\, artisans from throughout the region will gather to demonstrate 19 th century crafts\, as well as\nto sell a wide array of traditional folk and hand-crafted arts of today. Over sixty vendors\, guilds and volunteers\nwill fill the site with handcrafted arts\, specialty goods\, plants\, harvest products\, demonstrations and education.\nVisitors can see brooms being made\, wood being whittled and baskets of all kinds being woven.\nHarvest-time activities\, typical of an 1850s farm\, will be taking place all around the site. In the log kitchen\, the\nEden’s Ridge Hearth Cookery Society\, and our energetic Junior Apprentices\, will prepare some of the\nfoods the Preston family would have eaten in the mid nineteenth century. The artistry and iron expertise of\nour blacksmith will be on display at the forge\, where you can pick up a quick lesson in this timeless skill. The\nnewly renovated Gaines Store will be open and offering a view of merchandise sold in that era. Nearby\, Ms.\nMaggie T. Mule\, as well as some of Exchange Place’s human volunteers\, will once again be extracting juice\nfrom sorghum cane so it can be cooked into sorghum syrup. (Please note this will only take place on Saturday\,\nthough Maggie will also be around for part of Sunday.) Pure sorghum syrup\, made fresh this year by the\nGuenther family of Muddy Pond\, TN\, will be on sale for as long as supplies last. Next to the sorghum patch\nyou can see a small area of buckwheat that volunteers have sown as a cover crop to enrich the soil\, while also\nproviding nourishment for Exchange Place's honeybees and other pollinators.\nThe Overmountain Weavers Guild will be demonstrating spinning and weaving techniques in several places\naround the farmstead. In the Burow Museum\, Guild members have also curated an exhibit focused on knitting\nand crocheting that features unusual and vintage pieces. In addition\, two of their members will be offering a\nBasics of Knitting workshop. Held in the Roseland building on Saturday\, September 27 at 1 pm\, Paulette\nBruggeman and Jesse Szombathy will be teaching the knit stitch\, purl stitch\, and binding stitch\, which should\ngive participants the ability to knit a cotton dish cloth by the end of the class. No experience is required\, and\nall written instructions\, plus one pair of straight knitting needles and enough cotton yarn to complete two dish\ncloths\, will be provided. This workshop is limited to ten (10) students\, and is not recommended for children\nunder the age of 12. The cost is $25.00\, plus a small $1.20 online processing fee.  To pay and reserve your\nspot for this class\, go to this site:\nfile:///C:/Users/msade/Downloads/Events%20%E2%80%93%20Overmountain%20Weavers\n%20Guild.html%20%20knitting.html.\nExchange Place festivals always feature special people demonstrating their special skills\, and this one will be no\nexception. Kathy Martin will be on the Roseland porch\, showing how to make paper. In the past\, she has used\nthings like iris stalks\, okra and yucca\, and at the Fall Festival she will be using white and denim pulp. Also hard\nat work will be guitar luthier John Deason\, who will be making a new guitar\, and will also have five of his\noriginal instruments available for purchase. \nChildren's activities are a favorite feature of Exchange Place festivals for families. Once again Tri-State\nBasket Guild will be teaching children how to make baskets in the Schoolhouse. Children of all ages always\nenjoy meeting our horses\, cow\, and donkey in the 1851 barn\, and seeing our sheep grazing in different fields.\nThis year the animals will be part of the Living History Farm Scavenger Hunt\, in which young visitors can solve\nriddles\, guess the jokes and learn some interesting facts. The annual Scarecrow Challenge\, which encourages\ncreativity by individuals\, groups and families\, will allow people to bring their best scarecrows to the farm on\nFriday (September 26) from 9 am until 6 pm\, or Saturday from 7 am until 9 am\, with the judging taking place\non Sunday.\nAs is our tradition\, tickets to one of our most popular events — Witches Wynd — will go on sale at the\nFestival. This Halloween-based storytelling adventure is scheduled for 8 pm on both Friday\, October 17 and\nSaturday\, October 18\, and because only a limited number of tickets are available every year and are\nsnapped up quickly\, we encourage people to purchase them at the Festival. Tickets are $10 apiece and will be\nfound at the Museum Shop\, where the interior has been re-designed and new products added\, many of them\nunique to Exchange Place.\nA variety of food items will be available for purchase\, including kettle corn\, baked goods\, lunch items\, and\nmore. And as always during festivals\, the grounds of the farmstead will be alive with music. There will be\nmany old favorites playing throughout the weekend\, and this year we are proud to feature The Checkered\nPast\, Lee County (Virginia) residents who will be playing diverse music on a wide variety of instruments\nthroughout their Sunday afternoon set. A complete schedule of the artists is included below\, but please note\nthat this list is always subject to last-minute changes.\nFor more information\, you may call Exchange Place at 423-288-6071\, write to\nexchangeplacefestivals@gmail.com\, or visit our website at https://www.exchangeplacetn.org.\nExchange Place is a living history farm whose mission is to preserve and interpret the heritage of mid-\nnineteenth century farm life in Northeast Tennessee. Exchange Place is a non-profit organization maintained\nand operated entirely by volunteers and is supported by donations\, fundraisers\, memberships and grants.
URL:https://northeasttennessee.org/event/fall-folk-arts-festival-4/2025-09-28/
LOCATION:Exchange Place: Living History Farm\, 4812 Orebank Rd.\, Kingsport\, TN\, 37664\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts/Crafts,Children's Activities,Festivals,Food/Drink,General,Historical Events,Music
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SUMMARY:Fall Folk Arts Festival
DESCRIPTION:Kingsport\, TN – Autumn is arguably the most beautiful time of year in Northeast Tennessee and Southwest\nVirginia\, and Exchange Place Living History Farm gives it the welcome it deserves with its annual Fall\nFolk Arts Festival. Always eagerly anticipated\, this year’s event will be held on Saturday\, September 27\,\nfrom 10 am until 5 pm\, and Sunday\, September 28 from noon until 5 pm. Admission is $5 for ages\n12 and over\, with those under the age of 12 admitted free. Proceeds go towards the care of the farm’s\nresident animals\, and are also used in the ongoing restoration and preservation of the site\, located at 4812\nOrebank Road in Kingsport\, Tennessee\, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.\nFor the 53 rd year\, artisans from throughout the region will gather to demonstrate 19 th century crafts\, as well as\nto sell a wide array of traditional folk and hand-crafted arts of today. Over sixty vendors\, guilds and volunteers\nwill fill the site with handcrafted arts\, specialty goods\, plants\, harvest products\, demonstrations and education.\nVisitors can see brooms being made\, wood being whittled and baskets of all kinds being woven.\nHarvest-time activities\, typical of an 1850s farm\, will be taking place all around the site. In the log kitchen\, the\nEden’s Ridge Hearth Cookery Society\, and our energetic Junior Apprentices\, will prepare some of the\nfoods the Preston family would have eaten in the mid nineteenth century. The artistry and iron expertise of\nour blacksmith will be on display at the forge\, where you can pick up a quick lesson in this timeless skill. The\nnewly renovated Gaines Store will be open and offering a view of merchandise sold in that era. Nearby\, Ms.\nMaggie T. Mule\, as well as some of Exchange Place’s human volunteers\, will once again be extracting juice\nfrom sorghum cane so it can be cooked into sorghum syrup. (Please note this will only take place on Saturday\,\nthough Maggie will also be around for part of Sunday.) Pure sorghum syrup\, made fresh this year by the\nGuenther family of Muddy Pond\, TN\, will be on sale for as long as supplies last. Next to the sorghum patch\nyou can see a small area of buckwheat that volunteers have sown as a cover crop to enrich the soil\, while also\nproviding nourishment for Exchange Place's honeybees and other pollinators.\nThe Overmountain Weavers Guild will be demonstrating spinning and weaving techniques in several places\naround the farmstead. In the Burow Museum\, Guild members have also curated an exhibit focused on knitting\nand crocheting that features unusual and vintage pieces. In addition\, two of their members will be offering a\nBasics of Knitting workshop. Held in the Roseland building on Saturday\, September 27 at 1 pm\, Paulette\nBruggeman and Jesse Szombathy will be teaching the knit stitch\, purl stitch\, and binding stitch\, which should\ngive participants the ability to knit a cotton dish cloth by the end of the class. No experience is required\, and\nall written instructions\, plus one pair of straight knitting needles and enough cotton yarn to complete two dish\ncloths\, will be provided. This workshop is limited to ten (10) students\, and is not recommended for children\nunder the age of 12. The cost is $25.00\, plus a small $1.20 online processing fee.  To pay and reserve your\nspot for this class\, go to this site:\nfile:///C:/Users/msade/Downloads/Events%20%E2%80%93%20Overmountain%20Weavers\n%20Guild.html%20%20knitting.html.\nExchange Place festivals always feature special people demonstrating their special skills\, and this one will be no\nexception. Kathy Martin will be on the Roseland porch\, showing how to make paper. In the past\, she has used\nthings like iris stalks\, okra and yucca\, and at the Fall Festival she will be using white and denim pulp. Also hard\nat work will be guitar luthier John Deason\, who will be making a new guitar\, and will also have five of his\noriginal instruments available for purchase. \nChildren's activities are a favorite feature of Exchange Place festivals for families. Once again Tri-State\nBasket Guild will be teaching children how to make baskets in the Schoolhouse. Children of all ages always\nenjoy meeting our horses\, cow\, and donkey in the 1851 barn\, and seeing our sheep grazing in different fields.\nThis year the animals will be part of the Living History Farm Scavenger Hunt\, in which young visitors can solve\nriddles\, guess the jokes and learn some interesting facts. The annual Scarecrow Challenge\, which encourages\ncreativity by individuals\, groups and families\, will allow people to bring their best scarecrows to the farm on\nFriday (September 26) from 9 am until 6 pm\, or Saturday from 7 am until 9 am\, with the judging taking place\non Sunday.\nAs is our tradition\, tickets to one of our most popular events — Witches Wynd — will go on sale at the\nFestival. This Halloween-based storytelling adventure is scheduled for 8 pm on both Friday\, October 17 and\nSaturday\, October 18\, and because only a limited number of tickets are available every year and are\nsnapped up quickly\, we encourage people to purchase them at the Festival. Tickets are $10 apiece and will be\nfound at the Museum Shop\, where the interior has been re-designed and new products added\, many of them\nunique to Exchange Place.\nA variety of food items will be available for purchase\, including kettle corn\, baked goods\, lunch items\, and\nmore. And as always during festivals\, the grounds of the farmstead will be alive with music. There will be\nmany old favorites playing throughout the weekend\, and this year we are proud to feature The Checkered\nPast\, Lee County (Virginia) residents who will be playing diverse music on a wide variety of instruments\nthroughout their Sunday afternoon set. A complete schedule of the artists is included below\, but please note\nthat this list is always subject to last-minute changes.\nFor more information\, you may call Exchange Place at 423-288-6071\, write to\nexchangeplacefestivals@gmail.com\, or visit our website at https://www.exchangeplacetn.org.\nExchange Place is a living history farm whose mission is to preserve and interpret the heritage of mid-\nnineteenth century farm life in Northeast Tennessee. Exchange Place is a non-profit organization maintained\nand operated entirely by volunteers and is supported by donations\, fundraisers\, memberships and grants.
URL:https://northeasttennessee.org/event/fall-folk-arts-festival-4/2025-09-27/
LOCATION:Exchange Place: Living History Farm\, 4812 Orebank Rd.\, Kingsport\, TN\, 37664\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts/Crafts,Children's Activities,Festivals,Food/Drink,General,Historical Events,Music
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SUMMARY:Spring Garden Fair
DESCRIPTION:The calendar may say that spring begins in March\, but those of us who live in\nNortheast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia know that the season’s official entrance is when\nExchange Place Living History Farm holds its annual Spring Garden Fair! And this year\, the\noldest garden fair in our region will celebrate its 39 th birthday on Saturday\, April 26\, from 10\na.m. until 5 p.m.\, and Sunday\, April 27\, from noon until 5 p.m.\, at the 1850s farmstead\,\nlocated at 4812 Orebank Road in Kingsport. Admission is $5 for adults and is free for\nchildren under the age of 12\, and as always\, all proceeds go towards the maintenance of\nour site\, building restoration\, and keeping our animals fed. \nBe they novice gardeners\, people with green thumbs\, or anyone in between\, the Spring Garden\nFair is eagerly anticipated every year because it features thousands of plants for sale\, from old\nfavorites to rare and hard-to-find varieties. Growers will offer perennials\, annuals\, trees and\nshrubs\, with an emphasis on herbs\, vegetables\, natives and heirloom plants. And what makes it\ntruly unique is that gardening experts will be available throughout the weekend to share their\nknowledge about plant selection and care\, while folk and yard artisans will also be found\nthroughout the grounds with unique plant and garden-related arts and crafts. \nAs an educational institution dedicated to preserving and interpreting the heritage of mid-19 th\nCentury farm life in Northeast Tennessee\, Exchange Place will be offering glimpses of the\nantebellum years wherever one looks. Our resident sheep will be getting their annual haircuts\nas T.J. DeWitt will shear them\, on the “Roseland” side of Orebank Road\, at designated times\nthroughout the weekend. The Overmountain Weavers Guild then takes that wool and continue\ntheir long “Sheep to Shawl” tradition of carding (cleaning\, separating and straightening) the\nwool\, spinning it into yarn and weaving it into any number of beautiful and wearable items.\nAcross Orebank on the historic farm side of Exchange Place\, the Eden’s Ridge Hearth\nCookery Society will be churning butter on Saturday and making a pound cake with that fresh\nbutter on Sunday.  Forced (“Scotch”) eggs and skillet asparagus will round out Sunday's menu. \nIn the Cook’s Cabin\, our Junior Apprentices will be making hoecakes\, fried eggs and bacon\,\nJerusalem artichokes\, and jumble cookies.  You will also find them all about: in the blacksmith\nforge\, the woodshed\, the garden\, and the 1851 barn\, where our horses\, cow and donkey will be\nwaiting to meet you! In addition\, the JAs will be hosting their annual Tennessee Dancing Gourd\nspinoff just outside the Cook’s Cabin. \nWe are proudly hosting two heritage demonstrators. Master Broom Maker John Alexander\,\nalong with his son\, Aaron\, will be offering an Appalachian Toy Workshop on Saturday\, April 26\nfrom 2 pm until 4 pm\, where participants will make a buzz saw and a jumping jack. It is open\nto ages 9 and up\, though children under 13 must be accompanied by an adult. On \nSunday\, April 27\, from 3 pm until 5 pm\, John and Aaron will offer a Cobweb Sweeper and\nVegetable Scrubber Broom Workshop for those aged 12 and older. The cost for each workshop\nis $45\, which includes all materials\, and pre-registration is required at\nepfestivals.gf@gmail.com. (If the adult accompanying the minor at the Toy Workshop also\nplans to make a toy\, they must also pre-register.) \nMeanwhile\, Tom Brown of Clemmons\, NC will be on hand to display a wide variety of heritage\napples. These are the fruits that our grandparents and great-grandparents used for baking\, for\nfrying\, for Halloween treats\, for creating brandy and cider and vinegar\, and of course for eating\n(livestock loved them\, too). These apples are a part of our heritage\, but so many are being\nlost. Since 1999\, it has been Mr. Brown’s mission to save as many as he can\, and on Saturday\,\nhe will be on hand with a variety of these fruits. He will be happy to talk about heritage apples\nand their importance in our country’s past\, as well as why we should try to save them for future\ngenerations. For more information about Mr. Brown’s work\, please see applesearch.org. \nChildren’s activities are always a major component of the Spring Garden Fair\, and new this year\nwill be a Farmstead Scavenger Hunt. There will still be plenty of old favorites\, however\,\nincluding decorating the Maypole\, and a Maypole dance\, behind the Preston House\, on both\nafternoons. Youngsters can learn to make baskets at 10:30 am\, 1 pm and 3 pm on Saturday\,\nand 1 pm (and possibly 3 pm) on Sunday. Also new will be the planting of the sorghum\, which\nwill be harvested at the Fall Folk Arts Festival. If you’re interested\, please see Mark Selby in the\ngarden behind the blacksmith shop. Meanwhile\, the air will be alive with music throughout the\nweekend\, featuring some of the very best musicians found throughout our region. A complete\nschedule is listed below\, though it is always subject to last-minute changes. And to quench your\nhunger or thirst\, plenty of lunch items\, baked goods\, breads\, drinks and snacks will be available.\nExchange Place is a non-profit\, volunteer-run living history farm\, educational facility and regional\nattraction that seeks to preserve\, protect\, interpret\, and manage the history\, heritage\, and\nartifacts pertaining to mid-19 th century farm life in Northeast Tennessee. It is proudly listed on\nthe National Register of Historic Places. For more information\, please call 423-288-6071\, or\nvisit our website: www.exchangeplacetn.org \nMUSIC SCHEDULE \nSATURDAY\, APRIL 26 TIMES SUNDAY\, APRIL 27\nKINGSPORT COMMUNITY BAND 10 – 11 a.m. {gates open today at noon}\nSTRING BREAK 11 am – 12 noon {gates open today at noon}\nSTATE STREET STRING BAND 12 noon – 1 p.m. CODY MABE\nCHARLIE AND THE HONEYCUTTS 1 – 2 p.m. RED AND GRAY\nRENAISSANCE STRINGS 2 – 3 p.m. JIM ANN COUNTRY\nCHRIS LONG 3 – 4 p.m. TIMELESS STRING BAND \nJUNIOR APPRENTICES OLD-TIME \nBAND \n4 – 5 p.m. JUNIOR APPRENTICES OLD-TIME \nBAND
URL:https://northeasttennessee.org/event/spring-garden-fair-4/2025-04-27/
LOCATION:Exchange Place: Living History Farm\, 4812 Orebank Rd.\, Kingsport\, TN\, 37664\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts/Crafts,Children's Activities,Festivals,Food/Drink,General,Historical Events,Music,Shopping
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SUMMARY:Spring Garden Fair
DESCRIPTION:The calendar may say that spring begins in March\, but those of us who live in\nNortheast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia know that the season’s official entrance is when\nExchange Place Living History Farm holds its annual Spring Garden Fair! And this year\, the\noldest garden fair in our region will celebrate its 39 th birthday on Saturday\, April 26\, from 10\na.m. until 5 p.m.\, and Sunday\, April 27\, from noon until 5 p.m.\, at the 1850s farmstead\,\nlocated at 4812 Orebank Road in Kingsport. Admission is $5 for adults and is free for\nchildren under the age of 12\, and as always\, all proceeds go towards the maintenance of\nour site\, building restoration\, and keeping our animals fed. \nBe they novice gardeners\, people with green thumbs\, or anyone in between\, the Spring Garden\nFair is eagerly anticipated every year because it features thousands of plants for sale\, from old\nfavorites to rare and hard-to-find varieties. Growers will offer perennials\, annuals\, trees and\nshrubs\, with an emphasis on herbs\, vegetables\, natives and heirloom plants. And what makes it\ntruly unique is that gardening experts will be available throughout the weekend to share their\nknowledge about plant selection and care\, while folk and yard artisans will also be found\nthroughout the grounds with unique plant and garden-related arts and crafts. \nAs an educational institution dedicated to preserving and interpreting the heritage of mid-19 th\nCentury farm life in Northeast Tennessee\, Exchange Place will be offering glimpses of the\nantebellum years wherever one looks. Our resident sheep will be getting their annual haircuts\nas T.J. DeWitt will shear them\, on the “Roseland” side of Orebank Road\, at designated times\nthroughout the weekend. The Overmountain Weavers Guild then takes that wool and continue\ntheir long “Sheep to Shawl” tradition of carding (cleaning\, separating and straightening) the\nwool\, spinning it into yarn and weaving it into any number of beautiful and wearable items.\nAcross Orebank on the historic farm side of Exchange Place\, the Eden’s Ridge Hearth\nCookery Society will be churning butter on Saturday and making a pound cake with that fresh\nbutter on Sunday.  Forced (“Scotch”) eggs and skillet asparagus will round out Sunday's menu. \nIn the Cook’s Cabin\, our Junior Apprentices will be making hoecakes\, fried eggs and bacon\,\nJerusalem artichokes\, and jumble cookies.  You will also find them all about: in the blacksmith\nforge\, the woodshed\, the garden\, and the 1851 barn\, where our horses\, cow and donkey will be\nwaiting to meet you! In addition\, the JAs will be hosting their annual Tennessee Dancing Gourd\nspinoff just outside the Cook’s Cabin. \nWe are proudly hosting two heritage demonstrators. Master Broom Maker John Alexander\,\nalong with his son\, Aaron\, will be offering an Appalachian Toy Workshop on Saturday\, April 26\nfrom 2 pm until 4 pm\, where participants will make a buzz saw and a jumping jack. It is open\nto ages 9 and up\, though children under 13 must be accompanied by an adult. On \nSunday\, April 27\, from 3 pm until 5 pm\, John and Aaron will offer a Cobweb Sweeper and\nVegetable Scrubber Broom Workshop for those aged 12 and older. The cost for each workshop\nis $45\, which includes all materials\, and pre-registration is required at\nepfestivals.gf@gmail.com. (If the adult accompanying the minor at the Toy Workshop also\nplans to make a toy\, they must also pre-register.) \nMeanwhile\, Tom Brown of Clemmons\, NC will be on hand to display a wide variety of heritage\napples. These are the fruits that our grandparents and great-grandparents used for baking\, for\nfrying\, for Halloween treats\, for creating brandy and cider and vinegar\, and of course for eating\n(livestock loved them\, too). These apples are a part of our heritage\, but so many are being\nlost. Since 1999\, it has been Mr. Brown’s mission to save as many as he can\, and on Saturday\,\nhe will be on hand with a variety of these fruits. He will be happy to talk about heritage apples\nand their importance in our country’s past\, as well as why we should try to save them for future\ngenerations. For more information about Mr. Brown’s work\, please see applesearch.org. \nChildren’s activities are always a major component of the Spring Garden Fair\, and new this year\nwill be a Farmstead Scavenger Hunt. There will still be plenty of old favorites\, however\,\nincluding decorating the Maypole\, and a Maypole dance\, behind the Preston House\, on both\nafternoons. Youngsters can learn to make baskets at 10:30 am\, 1 pm and 3 pm on Saturday\,\nand 1 pm (and possibly 3 pm) on Sunday. Also new will be the planting of the sorghum\, which\nwill be harvested at the Fall Folk Arts Festival. If you’re interested\, please see Mark Selby in the\ngarden behind the blacksmith shop. Meanwhile\, the air will be alive with music throughout the\nweekend\, featuring some of the very best musicians found throughout our region. A complete\nschedule is listed below\, though it is always subject to last-minute changes. And to quench your\nhunger or thirst\, plenty of lunch items\, baked goods\, breads\, drinks and snacks will be available.\nExchange Place is a non-profit\, volunteer-run living history farm\, educational facility and regional\nattraction that seeks to preserve\, protect\, interpret\, and manage the history\, heritage\, and\nartifacts pertaining to mid-19 th century farm life in Northeast Tennessee. It is proudly listed on\nthe National Register of Historic Places. For more information\, please call 423-288-6071\, or\nvisit our website: www.exchangeplacetn.org \nMUSIC SCHEDULE \nSATURDAY\, APRIL 26 TIMES SUNDAY\, APRIL 27\nKINGSPORT COMMUNITY BAND 10 – 11 a.m. {gates open today at noon}\nSTRING BREAK 11 am – 12 noon {gates open today at noon}\nSTATE STREET STRING BAND 12 noon – 1 p.m. CODY MABE\nCHARLIE AND THE HONEYCUTTS 1 – 2 p.m. RED AND GRAY\nRENAISSANCE STRINGS 2 – 3 p.m. JIM ANN COUNTRY\nCHRIS LONG 3 – 4 p.m. TIMELESS STRING BAND \nJUNIOR APPRENTICES OLD-TIME \nBAND \n4 – 5 p.m. JUNIOR APPRENTICES OLD-TIME \nBAND
URL:https://northeasttennessee.org/event/spring-garden-fair-4/2025-04-26/
LOCATION:Exchange Place: Living History Farm\, 4812 Orebank Rd.\, Kingsport\, TN\, 37664\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts/Crafts,Children's Activities,Festivals,Food/Drink,General,Historical Events,Music,Shopping
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SUMMARY:Exchange Place: Christmas in the Country
DESCRIPTION:Christmas in the Country\nChristmas in the Country is the first Saturday of December. The sales of fresh greenery\,\nroping and wreaths\, traditional foods\, and demonstrations of winter activities on a 19 th\ncentury farmstead are featured. Artisans may offer workshops for visitors to create their\nown folk art. The Yule Log Ceremony concludes the celebration. 2024 date:\nSaturday\, December 7.
URL:https://northeasttennessee.org/event/exchange-place-christmas-in-the-country-3/
LOCATION:Exchange Place: Living History Farm\, 4812 Orebank Rd.\, Kingsport\, TN\, 37664\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts/Crafts,Children's Activities,Farmer's Markets,Festivals,Food/Drink,General,Historical Events,Shopping,Storytelling
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SUMMARY:Billee Moore Folklife Series
DESCRIPTION:The New Billee Moore Folklife Series Kicks Off with a Family-Friendly Concert and Dance \nKingsport\, TN – An energetic\, toe-tapping dance and concert by Tyler Hughes and the Empty Bottle String\nBand will inaugurate the brand-new Billee Moore Folklife Series\, named for one of this region’s most\ncreative storytellers\, innovators\, and supporter of traditional arts. The series plans to offer a variety of heritage\nprograms at Exchange Place and other locations around the Tri-Cities. This highly anticipated dance concert\nwill be held on Friday\, November 1 at the Kingsport Farmers Market\, beginning at 7 PM. Tickets are\n$12 in advance and can be purchased on Eventbrite until 5 PM the day of the concert; please use this link:\nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/benefit-concert-for-the-new-billee-moore-folklife-series-tickets-1039124227537\nTickets will also be sold at the door that evening for $15. No family will pay more than $40 for tickets. \nNothing could be a more perfect kick-off than a rollicking performance by Tyler Hughes and the Empty Bottle\nString Band! Graduates of the Bluegrass\, Old Time and Country Music Studies program at ETSU\, these\nmusicians are known for their upbeat tunes\, feel-good music and inventive sound\, which still stays close to the\nclassic string band tradition of the 1930's.  One of the Appalachian region’s most popular old-time groups\,\nattendees can come just for the tunes\, but the band's music is extremely danceable\, so anyone who cares to\ndance should do so with carefree abandon; there is plenty of room at the Kingsport Farmers Market Pavilion! \nFunds from the kickoff and the series will be used to build a new folklife series\, honoring Billee\, an indomitable\nwoman whose artistic imagination created such enduring events as murder mystery plays\, guest tours\, bus\n“hijackings\,” and the ongoing storytelling event at Exchange Place known as Witches Wynd (to be held this\nyear on October 18 and 19). A community activist\, she was involved in the creation of Darrell’s Dream\, the\nunique Warriors Path State Park playground. Billee was also a staunch supporter of the rich history and\nculture that is so abundant in Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia. This folklife series\, following her\nlegacy\, will feature programming that engages community members of all ages in family-friendly explorations\nof regional folk culture and arts. The series will be as lively and joyful as the woman who inspired it\, while\nbringing attention to the role of Exchange Place: interpreting the region’s history and culture in ways that\nbring people together for both education and enjoyment. \nFor more information\, please write to Exchange Place at exchangeplacefarm@yahoo.com \nExchange Place is a living history farm whose mission is to preserve and interpret the heritage of mid-\nnineteenth century farm life in Northeast Tennessee. Exchange Place is a non-profit organization\, maintained\nand operated entirely by volunteers and supported solely by donations\, fundraisers\, memberships and grants.
URL:https://northeasttennessee.org/event/billee-moore-folklife-series/
LOCATION:Exchange Place: Living History Farm\, 4812 Orebank Rd.\, Kingsport\, TN\, 37664\, United States
CATEGORIES:Dance,General,Historical Events,Storytelling
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SUMMARY:Exchange Place: Witches Wynd
DESCRIPTION:Witches Wynd\nListeners “wynd” (rhymes with “find”) among the historic log buildings at night and are\ntreated to a variety of tales of legends and love and ghosts and goblins. The evening\nconcludes with hot cider and cookies. Advanced tickets\, first available at the Fall Folk\nArts Festival\, are required for this event which has sold out every year. Begun in 1992.\n2024 date: Friday\, October 18 and Saturday\, October 19.
URL:https://northeasttennessee.org/event/exchange-place-witches-wynd-2/
LOCATION:Exchange Place: Living History Farm\, 4812 Orebank Rd.\, Kingsport\, TN\, 37664\, United States
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SUMMARY:Exchange Place: Fall Folk Arts Festival
DESCRIPTION:Fall Folk Arts Festival\nThe Fall Folk Arts Festival is the last full weekend of September. Fall activities typical of\na 19 th century farmstead\, demonstrations and sales of high-quality hand-made\nhandicrafts and a Harvest Market are featured. Traditional music\, old-fashioned foods\,\nchildren’s activities\, and animals are important parts of the event. Begun in 1972.\n2024 date: Saturday\, September 28 and Sunday\, September 29.
URL:https://northeasttennessee.org/event/exchange-place-fall-folk-arts-festival-3/
LOCATION:Exchange Place: Living History Farm\, 4812 Orebank Rd.\, Kingsport\, TN\, 37664\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts/Crafts,Children's Activities,Festivals,Food/Drink,General,Historical Events,Outdoors,Shopping
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SUMMARY:Exchange Place: Farmfest
DESCRIPTION:Farmfest\nFarmfest is the first Sunday afternoon of the community wide FunFest. The focus is on\nchildren’s “play” and “chores” and demonstrations of summertime activities on a 19 th\ncentury farmstead. No sales are made except at the John Gaines Store. 2024 date:\nSunday\, July 21.
URL:https://northeasttennessee.org/event/exchange-place-farmfest/
LOCATION:Exchange Place: Living History Farm\, 4812 Orebank Rd.\, Kingsport\, TN\, 37664\, United States
CATEGORIES:Children's Activities,General,Historical Events,Outdoors
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SUMMARY:Exchange Place Living History Farm: Spring Garden Fair
DESCRIPTION:Kingsport\, TN – After a cold winter\, our reward is spring\, and in its time-honored area tradition\,\nExchange Place Living History Farm will once again celebrate the planting season with its annual Spring\nGarden Fair. The oldest garden fair in our region will be celebrating its 38th year on Saturday\, April\n27\, from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m.\, and Sunday\, April 28\, from noon until 5 p.m.\, at the 1850s\nfarmstead\, located at 4812 Orebank Road in Kingsport. Admission is $5 for adults and is free\nfor children under the age of 12.  Proceeds from the event helps keep our animals fed\, and also goes\ntowards the restoration and upkeep of the site\, which is proudly listed on the National Register of\nHistoric Places. \nAlways eagerly anticipated by area gardeners (beginners as well as experts)\, the Fair will feature\nthousands of plants for sale\, ranging from old favorites to rare and hard-to-find varieties. Growers will\noffer perennials\, annuals\, trees and shrubs\, with an emphasis on herbs\, natives and heirloom plants\,\nincluding a wide assortment of heirloom tomatoes. And what makes this festival so popular is that\ngardening experts are available throughout the weekend to answer questions and share their knowledge\nabout plant selection and care. Another inimitable feature is that folk and yard artisans are also found all\naround the campus\, displaying unique plant and garden-related arts and crafts. \nTrue to its mission\, Exchange Place will offer slices of 19 th century life in almost every corner. Over on\nthe Roseland side\, the Burow Museum will be eagerly welcoming visitors\, while just a few feet away\, in\nan area between the Museum and the barn\, our sheep will be getting their hair cut! T.J. Dewitt will be\nperforming this shearing the sheep spring ritual both days: on Saturday\, you can see it at 10:30 am\,\n12 noon\, 1:30 and 3:30 pm\, while on Sunday it will take place at 12 noon\, 1:30 and 3:30 pm. The\nOvermountain Weavers Guild will then take that wool and continue their long “Sheep to Shawl”\ntradition of carding (cleaning\, separating and straightening) the wool\, spinning it into yarn and weaving\nthat yarn into scarves and\, perhaps\, other beautiful and wearable items. \nAcross the road on the historic farm side of Exchange Place\, the hearth kitchen will be filled with\nwonderful aromas supplied by the Eden’s Ridge Hearth Cookery Society. On Saturday\, they will be\nchurning butter\, to be used on Sunday when they make pound cake. They will also be making hoecakes\,\njumble cookies\, and fried eggs with asparagus in the Cook’s Cabin. Other Junior Apprentices will host\nthe annual Tennessee Dancing Gourd spinoff\, as well as perform chores in the barn\, woodshed and\ngarden — a glimpse into how life was lived on an antebellum Northeast Tennessee farm. \nA special feature this year will be the presence of noted broom maker John Alexander. A graduate of\nBerea College\, he has been making brooms\, and teaching this craft\, for nearly half a century\, and he will\nbe giving demonstrations at his booth all weekend (as well as having traditional Appalachian brooms\,\nbroomcorn seed\, and broomcorn woven walking sticks available for sale).  He is also offering workshops\nin Cobweb broom-making. The Saturday class is already filled\, but Mr. Alexander is willing to add one on\nSunday\, from 3 pm until 5 pm. The cost will be $30\, with all materials supplied. If interested\, people\nshould write to epfestivals.gf@gmail.com to see if spots are still available\, and send their checks\n(payable to Exchange Place) to us at 4812 Orebank Road\, to reserve their spot. \nAnother unique event will be the sowing of buckwheat on the cane patch. Weather permitting\, longtime\nvolunteer Mark Selby plans to offer up times when festival attendees can help sow buckwheat.  This\nwill serve as a cover crop that not only helps build healthy soil\, but will also serve as a food source for\nbees and other beneficial insects.  He also plans to give away small packets of buckwheat seeds so that\nfolks can sow them at their homes\, which will help the endangered bees. \nAs you can see\, we have come to expect the Spring Garden Fair to be filled with fascinating events\, and\nthere are more to report. A wide variety of hands-on children’s activities will be found all around the\ngrounds\, including Cynthia Holt offering lessons in basketmaking. The blacksmith shop will be up and\nrunning\, demonstrating the necessity of this skill in the years before the Industrial Revolution. The Boy\nScouts will guide visitors in making rope. The joyous Maypole decoration and dance will take place at 2\npm on Sunday. Brought to this country by our European ancestors\, it is a traditional and colorful\ncelebration of spring\, and will feature the Junior Apprentices Old-Time Band. Everyone always enjoys\nseeing our resident animals\, including Delilah (our cow)\, Jenny (our donkey)\, plus the sheep\, pigs and\ncats who will be scattered about. As always\, music will fill the air during the Spring Garden Fair\, as an\noverabundance of local talent is scheduled to perform throughout the weekend. (A complete schedule is\nlisted below\, though it is always subject to last-minute changes.) And don't worry\, if you get hungry or\nthirsty\, baked goods\, lunch\, drinks and snacks (including the ever-popular kettle corn!) will be available. \nThe Spring Garden Fair strives to be as environmentally friendly as possible with recycling\, composting\,\nand re-using.  Visitors are encouraged to bring their own plant carriers and to bring used nursery pots\nfor recycling/reusing. \nExchange Place is a non-profit\, volunteer-run living history farm\, educational facility and regional\nattraction that seeks to preserve\, protect\, interpret\, and manage the history\, heritage\, and artifacts\npertaining to mid-19 th century farm life in Northeast Tennessee. For more information\, please call\n423-288-6071\, or visit our website: www.exchangeplacetn.org.
URL:https://northeasttennessee.org/event/exchange-place-living-history-farm-spring-garden-fair/2024-04-27/
LOCATION:Exchange Place: Living History Farm\, 4812 Orebank Rd.\, Kingsport\, TN\, 37664\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts/Crafts,Festivals,General,Outdoors,Shopping
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SUMMARY:Exchange Place: Spring Garden Fair
DESCRIPTION:Spring Garden Fair\nThe Garden Fair is the last full weekend of April. Demonstrations of springtime activities\non a 19 th century farmstead and sales of plants\, garden accessories\, farm products\, and\nrelated arts are the focus. Traditional music\, old-fashioned foods\, children’s activities\,\nand “meet and greet” our resident animals\, are important parts of the event. Begun in\n1984. 2024 date: Saturday\, April 27 and Sunday\, April 28.
URL:https://northeasttennessee.org/event/exchange-place-spring-garden-fair-4/
LOCATION:Exchange Place: Living History Farm\, 4812 Orebank Rd.\, Kingsport\, TN\, 37664\, United States
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SUMMARY:Kingsport Exchange Place: Christmas in the Country
DESCRIPTION:Kingsport\, TN – Exchange Place will once again be playing its part in the “conspiracy of love” by hosting its\nannual Christmas in the Country celebration on Saturday\, December 2\, from 10:00 am until 4:00\npm at Kingsport’s historic Living History Farm\, located at 4812 Orebank Road. Proudly listed on the\nNational Register of Historic Places\, admission will be $5 for adults and completely free for children\nunder 12 in the final public event of the year at the tradition-rich farmstead. \nVendors and demonstrators will be found on both sides of Orebank Road\, which will feature unique\,\nhandmade folk arts and crafts such as pottery\, one-of-a kind greeting cards\, inimitable soaps\, paintings\,\nhand-woven items\, wooden ware and jewelry. People who come from all over for Vickie Price’s wreaths\,\nroping and bundles — made with a wide variety of freshly-cut greenery – will be happy to know that the\nMountain City resident will be there and fully supplied. \nChristmas in the Country actually began its life as Christmas in a Country Kitchen\, and scrumptious food is\nstill a main component of the festival. Joining long-time favorite Charlotte Ellis of Flour Fancies with her\nhomemade breads and fruit cakes will be others with baked goods and treats\, both to eat on-site and to\ntake home. A special addition this year is Lynette Carter with her holiday molded chocolates\, with proceeds\nbenefiting Exchange Place. Two Dads Cafe of Kingsport will have lunch and snack items available\, such as\nchili\, potato soup\, pork barbecue and cobbler. \nWhile this is a perfect place to find distinctive holiday gifts\, decorations and stocking stuffers\, Christmas in\nthe Country is much more than just another shopping opportunity. Part of our mission is to demonstrate\nhow our pre-Civil War ancestors would have prepared for the holidays\, which can be seen in many of our\nhistory-rich buildings. The Eden’s Ridge Hearth Cookery Society\, featuring the Junior Apprentices\, will\nbe making salsify fritters and cinnamon waffles in the kitchen\, and ginger cakes and popcorn in the Cook’s\nCabin.  The JAs will be a busy group\, as they will be decorating a tabletop Christmas tree and making\npomanders (a ball made for perfumes to ward off foul odors) in the Schoolhouse\, chopping wood and\nassisting in the Blacksmith Shop. They will also be offering a variety of handmade and historically-inspired\ngoods\, including tulip poplar baskets\, ginger cakes\, Christmas crackers\, and Yule Log kits. \nAs is always the case\, the Overmountain Weavers Guild will be in a variety of places around Exchange\nPlace. They will be demonstrating their skills and displaying the weavings from the three top winners of\ntheir 50th Anniversary Challenge\, and continuing their exhibit of yarns dyed naturally with herbs and plants\,\nas well as Suzanne Burow’s reconstructions and innovations woven from antique drafts. The rare\, restored\nrocker beater looms can be seen in the Burow Museum\, while handmade and handspun fiber items\, some\nmade using the wool from our Cotswold sheep\, will be on sale in Roseland. Near the Burow Museum\,\nvisitors will find a red-seated carriage (no horses\, sorry!)\, perfect for a photo with that old-time feel that\ncould become this year’s holiday card. \nPopular artist Jennifer Hanlon returns to lead a needle-felting workshop that will result in participants\ncreating their own snowman\, a perfect holiday addition. This fascinating class will begin at 10:30 am in the \nRoseland building and will last for much of the day. The cost of the workshop will vary\, depending on how\nmuch you would like supplied by Jennifer; please visit her website for complete information\, including the\nrequired advance registration (https://www.hanlonscreativecorner.com/events). \nIn the Blacksmith Shop\, David and John Pace will be working using a newly-restored bellows. The father-\nand-son duo\, who began volunteering last year\, discovered that the bellows – which provides additional air\nto the fire\, making the forge hotter — had several holes in the bladder\, some dry rot\, missing hardware and\na crack in one of its wooden paddles. They took it upon themselves to restore the bellows\, and you can\nsee their completed effort at Christmas in the Country. (You can also see a story about their project on\nwww.youtube.com/@JandDprojects0965.) \nBirding Kingsport\, a chapter of the Tennessee Ornithological Society\, will partner with Wild Birds\nUnlimited in Johnson City and offer bird feeders\, seed and other specialties for our winged friends\, along\nwith answering questions about feeding and birding. Pine cone feeders can be made on site\, and\ninstructions will be provided on how to build a nest box for the beautiful Eastern Bluebird. (In honor of\nlongtime volunteer Ron Russum\, who passed away earlier this year\, new bluebird houses will be put up\naround the farm.) Exchange Place will also continue its tradition of inviting visitors to help decorate a tree\nfor the birds. \nShowing the simplicity of the Christmas celebration on the Preston Farmstead in 1850 is a focus of hands-\non children's activities. A youngster of that era might have made a toy\, gift or card from natural treasures\nfound on the farm\, or from leftover cloth or yarn\, something that could be hung on the Christmas tree.\nSeasonal "chores\," like grinding corn\, or the necessity of making candles to get through the winter\, will be\nlocated around the site\, depending on the weather\, of course. Meeting the animals who call Exchange\nPlace home year-round – the cow\, donkey\, chickens\, pigs and sheep – is always an enduring treat for\nchildren of all ages. And stocking stuffers and unusual gifts can be found at the Museum Store\, located\nnext door to the Roseland building. Shoppers will find ol' timey toys\, oak split baskets\, and a variety of\nitems exclusive to our farmstead\, like Exchange Place prints\, ornaments\, a cookbook of 19th century\nrecipes\, and much more. \nThe Yule Log Ceremony\, a free community tradition\, is always popular and will be held near the Cook’s\nCabin beginning around 4:15 pm\, concluding the day’s festivities. Originated by the Vikings\, it served as\na way for them to honor their gods and request good luck in the coming year. Later it was incorporated\ninto the harvest festivals of Germany and Scandinavia\, then moved to England when the Normans\nconquered the isles\, and eventually was brought to the New World by the Pilgrims. While the Preston\nfamily may not have burned a Yule Log\, we like to make it a part of our Christmas in the Country as a\nsymbol of peace and good will for our wonderful community. Since it was often decorated with evergreens\nand sometimes sprinkled with grain or cider before it was finally lit\, we encourage everyone to bring a sprig\nto cast onto the fire\, and also to wear fine\, colorful headgear to the event\, which will conclude with the\nsinging of carols and\, of course\, a cup of hot wassail! Derived from the Anglo-Saxon “waes hael\,” which\nmeant “Be in Health” or “Here’s to You\,” wassail helps us to emphasize the spirit of health and friendship.\nFor more information\, you may call Exchange Place at 423-288-6071\, or visit the new website at\nexchangeplacetn.org. \nExchange Place is a living history farm whose mission is to preserve and interpret the heritage of mid-\nnineteenth century farm life in Northeast Tennessee. Exchange Place is a non-profit organization maintained\nand operated by volunteers and is supported by donations\, fundraisers\, memberships and grants.
URL:https://northeasttennessee.org/event/kingsport-exchange-place-christmas-in-the-country/
LOCATION:Exchange Place: Living History Farm\, 4812 Orebank Rd.\, Kingsport\, TN\, 37664\, United States
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SUMMARY:Witches Wynd
DESCRIPTION:Kingsport\, TN – If you’ve lived in the Tri-Cities/Southwest Virginia region for even just a couple\nof years\, you know all about Witches Wynd (that second word is pronounced “why-nd\,”\nrhymes with “kind”)\, the annual storytelling event held at Exchange Place\, Kingsport’s own\nLiving History Farm. One of the most unique and popular public events held anywhere in\nAppalachia\, this year’s collection of eerie tales will be offered (for the 31 st consecutive year!) on\nFriday\, October 20 and Saturday\, October 21\, beginning each night at 8 pm. And while Friday\nnight is virtually sold out\, there are still some tickets available for Saturday. \nPeople begin to check in at Exchange Place – located at 4812 Orebank Road in Kingsport\,\nTennessee – around 7:30 pm\, and are randomly placed in four groups. Then\, around 8:00 pm\,\nwhen it is good and dark (prime time for those all “ghoulies and ghosties”!)\, each group is led\nacross the road of the historic farm. At this point they separate and are taken to four different\nlocations where\, over the course of the next two hours\, everyone gets to listen to Halloween-ish\ntales told by some of this region’s finest storytellers. And then\, just when you think the night is\nover\, you get served a special treat – there are cookies and hot cider waiting for you in\nRoseland’s back porch\, a sweet way to end the evening. \nOur storytellers this year are Judy “Butterfly” Farlow\, Hannah Harvey\, Katie Hoffman\, and Libby\nTipton. Oh\, and in case anyone might be concerned that our stories are grossly macabre\,\nplease know that our aim is to entertain\, not frighten. Witches Wynd has\, over the years\,\nproved to be popular with teenagers and pre-teens\, as well as their parents. It is probably fair\nto say that watching the evening news can be far more upsetting! \nTickets for Witches Wynd are $10 for everyone\, and can be purchased by calling Exchange\nPlace at 423-288-6071. We are now equipped to take credit cards (though please note that\nthere will be a 50-cent surcharge attached to those orders). All the money we collect for this\nannual event\, as well as for anything that takes place out at Exchange Place\, is used to benefit\nthe animals who live year-round at Exchange Place\, as well as for the continued restoration and\npreservation of the site\, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. \nExchange Place is a living history farm whose mission is to preserve and interpret the heritage\nof mid-nineteenth century farm life in Northeast Tennessee. Exchange Place is a non-profit\norganization maintained and operated entirely by volunteers and is supported by donations\,\nfundraisers\, memberships and grants.
URL:https://northeasttennessee.org/event/witches-wynd-2/2023-10-20/
LOCATION:Exchange Place: Living History Farm\, 4812 Orebank Rd.\, Kingsport\, TN\, 37664\, United States
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SUMMARY:Exchange Place Fall Folk Arts Festival\, 2023
DESCRIPTION:Exchange Place Living History Farm ushers in autumn with its annual Fall Folk Arts Festival on Saturday\, September 23\, from 10 am until 5 pm\, and Sunday\, September 24 from noon until 5 pm.\nAdmission is $5\, with those under the age of 12 admitted free. This festival is designed not only to feature traditional artisans\, but is also a fundraiser to enable Exchange Place to care for the buildings\, grounds\, and animals that live there year ’round.\nArtists from throughout the region will gather to demonstrate and sell a wide array of traditional folk arts as well as hand-crafted arts of today. Guilds and artisans will pass along the knowledge and skills of yesteryear to the next generation. The Harvest Market areas will offer fall produce\, plants\, and seasonal crafts.\nOn Saturday\, a sorghum making demonstration will again be among the other happenings at this year’s festival. Sorghum cane will be squeezed through the mule-powered mill until around noon\, then cooked on a wood-fired furnace the rest of the afternoon.\nMany other demonstrations and hands-on activities will help make history come alive throughout the farm. In the Cook’s cabin our energetic Junior Apprentices will prepare some of the foods the Preston family would have eaten in the mid nineteenth century. The anvil will be ringing in the blacksmith’s shop as the smithy demonstrates the various tasks that made the smithy such a valuable crafts person in antebellum America.\nChildren’s activities abound as young folks are encouraged to create games as well as do the “chores\,” just as a child might have done in 1850.\nOl’ timey foods will be available for purchase\, including kettle corn\, funnel cakes\, fried pies\, barbecue\, soup beans and corn bread\, and more. As always during festivals\, the grounds of the farmstead will be alive with music. Old and new favorites will be playing throughout the weekend.\nExchange Place is a living history farm whose mission is to preserve and interpret the heritage of mid-nineteenth century farm life in Northeast Tennessee. Exchange Place is a non-profit organization maintained and operated entirely by volunteers and is supported by donations\, fundraisers\, memberships and grants.
URL:https://northeasttennessee.org/event/exchange-place-fall-folk-arts-festival-2023/
LOCATION:Exchange Place: Living History Farm\, 4812 Orebank Rd.\, Kingsport\, TN\, 37664\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts/Crafts
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SUMMARY:Exchange Place Fall Folk Arts Festival\, 2023
DESCRIPTION:Exchange Place Living History Farm ushers in autumn with its annual Fall Folk Arts Festival on Saturday\, September 23\, from 10 am until 5 pm\, and Sunday\, September 24 from noon until 5 pm.\nAdmission is $5\, with those under the age of 12 admitted free. This festival is designed not only to feature traditional artisans\, but is also a fundraiser to enable Exchange Place to care for the buildings\, grounds\, and animals that live there year ’round.\nArtists from throughout the region will gather to demonstrate and sell a wide array of traditional folk arts as well as hand-crafted arts of today. Guilds and artisans will pass along the knowledge and skills of yesteryear to the next generation. The Harvest Market areas will offer fall produce\, plants\, and seasonal crafts.\nOn Saturday\, a sorghum making demonstration will again be among the other happenings at this year’s festival. Sorghum cane will be squeezed through the mule-powered mill until around noon\, then cooked on a wood-fired furnace the rest of the afternoon.\nMany other demonstrations and hands-on activities will help make history come alive throughout the farm. In the Cook’s cabin our energetic Junior Apprentices will prepare some of the foods the Preston family would have eaten in the mid nineteenth century. The anvil will be ringing in the blacksmith’s shop as the smithy demonstrates the various tasks that made the smithy such a valuable crafts person in antebellum America.\nChildren’s activities abound as young folks are encouraged to create games as well as do the “chores\,” just as a child might have done in 1850.\nOl’ timey foods will be available for purchase\, including kettle corn\, funnel cakes\, fried pies\, barbecue\, soup beans and corn bread\, and more. As always during festivals\, the grounds of the farmstead will be alive with music. Old and new favorites will be playing throughout the weekend.\nExchange Place is a living history farm whose mission is to preserve and interpret the heritage of mid-nineteenth century farm life in Northeast Tennessee. Exchange Place is a non-profit organization maintained and operated entirely by volunteers and is supported by donations\, fundraisers\, memberships and grants.
URL:https://northeasttennessee.org/event/exchange-place-fall-folk-arts-festival-2023-2/
LOCATION:Exchange Place: Living History Farm\, 4812 Orebank Rd.\, Kingsport\, TN\, 37664\, United States
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SUMMARY:Exchange Place Living History Farm: Fall Folk Arts Festival
DESCRIPTION:Kingsport\, TN – People in the Tri-Cities and the Appalachian Highlands have grown up with Exchange Place\,\nand especially with its seasonal celebrations. And now\, one of the oldest fairs of its kind in our region will be\nentering its second half-century\, as Exchange Place Living History Farm holds its Fall Folk Arts Festival\nfor the 51st time. A joyous celebration of pioneer arts and crafts and the harvest season\, the festival will take\nplace on Saturday\, September 23\, from 10 am until 5 pm\, and Sunday\, September 24 from noon\nuntil 5 pm. Admission is $5\, with those under 12 admitted free. As always\, proceeds go towards the\ncare of the farm’s animals and the continued restoration and preservation of the site\, located at 4812\nOrebank Road in Kingsport\, Tennessee and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.\nBoth sides of Orebank Road will be filled with sales\, foods and demonstrations as festival vendors offer a wide\narray of traditional folk arts\, along with plants\, local foods and seasonal crafts. Artisans\, including\nwoodworkers\, potters\, authors and artists\, will display and sell their work. Unique crafts will be found\neverywhere – leather goods; a variety of soaps\, including one made from donkey milk; toasty warm hats and\nmittens made from alpaca fleece; handcrafted greeting cards; and many knitted and crocheted items. There\nwill also be local honey\, goat milk cheeses\, homemade jams\, jellies and breads\, and much more.\nA focus of the Fall Folk Arts Festival is on demonstrations of fall activities that might have been found on a mid-\nnineteenth century Northeast Tennessee farm. History will come alive as visitors see sorghum being milled and\ncooked on Saturday\, with Maggie T. Mule pulling the mill\, while Sunday’s activities will consist of details about\nthe process of making sorghum. (Pure sorghum syrup\, made fresh this year by the Guenther family of Muddy\nPond\, TN\, will be on sale\, as long as supplies last.) Elsewhere on the farm volunteers will demonstrate other\nskills such as blacksmithing and chair caning.\nGuilds around the region continue to teach and perpetuate folk arts and handicrafts. The Overmountain\nWeavers Guild began at the first Fall Festival 51 years ago\, and this partnership continues at the Burow\nMuseum as they demonstrate the arts of spinning and weaving. Visitors can see curtains for the historic site\nbeing woven on the restored Rocker Beater loom\, learn the story of the weavers behind the antique drafts that\ncame with the first loom gifted to Exchange Place\, and see the three top award winners from the OMWG\nAnniversary Challenge. Guests may also weave a part of an antique draft themselves. Guild members will be\navailable to show\, and give more information\, on the sale of antique and vintage spinning and weaving\nequipment. Another long tradition is the Tri State Basket Guild offering the opportunity for youth to make their\nown baskets\, with proceeds going to feed the resident animals. In addition\, Chapter 162 of the National\nAssociation of Watch and Clock Collectors will return with a host of antique clocks and advice on how to restore\nold timepieces Thanks to the generosity of Rod Groenewold of Kingsport\, one of his clocks will be available at\nhis booth as part of the Silent Auction.\nIn the kitchen\, the Eden’s Ridge Hearth Cookery Society will be baking sweet potato biscuits and\nhoecakes to go with that fresh sorghum syrup\, as well as other foods common in the antebellum era. The\ncostumed Junior Apprentices will not only be assisting in this fun task but are also a part of demonstrations\naround the farmstead\, including gourd crafting near the Cook’s Cabin and rug braiding on the Main House front\nporch. Some of their handcrafted items\, including tulip poplar bark baskets and hand-forged knives\, will be\nincluded in the Silent Auction to help raise funds for their program.\nA special shopping opportunity this fall is the result of volunteers cleaning out the John Gaines Store prior to its \ncontinuing restoration\, along with corners of other buildings. Many of these "treasures" — such as a hand-\ncrafted mountain dulcimer — and other items found that are no longer used\, do not fit the site's 19th century\nfocus and will be offered to visitors in the Silent Auction\, held in the Roseland Visitor's Center and in the\nBaaaa..rn Sale near the 1910 Barn. Historic details of items will be included in the display.\nA highlight of this festival will be the offering of two major workshops. On Saturday\, master crafter Heather\nAshworth will teach two classes in broom-making. Reprising the program she offered two years ago\, Ms.\nAshworth will offer classes in the Roseland building from 10 am until 12:30 pm\, and another from 1:30 pm\nuntil 4 pm. She will supply all materials as she teaches students how to bind two whisk hand brooms\, using\nbroom corn and colorful cord. The cost will be $70 and will include all materials\, plus admission to the Fall Folk\nArts Festival. Students must register for either class in advance by contacting her at\nhello.heatherashworth@gmail.com.\nThe other workshop will be held on Sunday. Back by popular demand\, Jennifer Hanlon has scheduled a\nnew needle felting class; this year’s project is to make a 2D/3D pumpkin refrigerator magnet. The workshop\nwill begin at noon\, also in Roseland\, and will continue for about three hours. The cost of this workshop will\nvary ($25 to $45)\, depending on how many supplies you would like Ms. Hanlon to furnish. More information\,\nincluding registration\, can be found at www.hanlonscreativecorner.com.\nChildren's "chores and play" will be scattered around the farmstead\, allowing the young (along with those\nyouthful in mind and spirit!) a chance to experience what it was like to be a child in the 19th century. Thanks\nto volunteers and community groups\, a wide range of children's hands-on activities will be available\, including\nmaking a rope with the Boy Scouts. As always\, visitors will have the opportunity to wander over to the 1851\nbarn and meet some of those animals who live there all year long\, including our donkey\, cow\, and cats\, plus\nthe sheep\, chickens\, and pigs found in various other locations. There will also be one vendor bringing baby\nchicks to the festival!\nA large variety of foods and drinks will be available throughout the weekend for snacks and lunch to eat on\nsite\, as well as food items to take home. And all of this will feature a backdrop of excellent live music\,\nprovided by local and regional artists. (A tentative schedule of performances\, always subject to last-minute\nchanges\, is listed at the bottom of this release.)\nThe official countdown to Witches Wynd begins each year with the Fall Folk Arts Festival. Exchange Place’s\nunique storytelling adventure will be offered live again this year\, and tickets will first be made available during\nthe Festival. The 31st Witches Wynd is Friday\, October 20\, and Saturday\, October 21\, and tickets must\nbe purchased in advance. Historically\, this unique blend of macabre tales and ballads sells out quickly since\nonly a limited number of spaces are available\, so we encourage people to purchase them during the Fall\nFestival. Tickets are $10 apiece and will be found at the Museum Store.\nFor more information or to volunteer at the festival\, please call 423-288-6071\, visit our new website at\nexchangeplacetn.org\, or write to epfestivals.gf@gmail.com.\nExchange Place is a living history farm whose mission is to preserve and interpret the heritage of mid-\nnineteenth century farm life in Northeast Tennessee. Exchange Place is a non-profit organization\, maintained\nand operated entirely by volunteers and supported solely by donations\, fundraisers\, memberships and grants. \n  \nMUSIC SCHEDULE FOR SATURDAY\, SEPTEMBER 23\n10 – 11 am KINGSPORT COMMUNITY BAND\n11 am – noon STRING BREAK\nnoon – 1 pm CHRIS LONG\n1 – 2 pm RENAISSANCE STRINGS\n2 – 3 pm STRAWBERRY JAM\n3 – 4 pm JUNIOR APPRENTICES OLD-TIME BAND\n4 – 5 pm THE HONEYCUTTS \nMUSIC SCHEDULE FOR SUNDAY\, SEPTEMBER 24 \nnoon – 1 pm\n1 – 2 pm JIM ANN COUNTRY\n2 – 3 pm STATE STREET STRING BAND\n3 – 4 pm DEXTER RAMEY\n4 – 5 pm RED AND GREY
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LOCATION:Exchange Place: Living History Farm\, 4812 Orebank Rd.\, Kingsport\, TN\, 37664\, United States
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SUMMARY:Spring Garden Fair
DESCRIPTION:Kingsport\, TN – In a time-honored area tradition\, Exchange Place Living History Farm will once again\nhonor the arrival of spring\, and the planting season\, with its beloved Spring Garden Fair. The oldest\ngarden fair in our region will be back for its 37 th year on Saturday\, April 29\, from 10 a.m. until 5\np.m.\, and Sunday\, April 30\, from noon until 5 p.m.\, at the 1850s farmstead\, located at 4812\nOrebank Road in Kingsport. Admission is $5 for ages 12 and older\, with no charge for\nanyone under the age of 12. \nEagerly anticipated by area gardeners — from beginners to experts – the Fair will feature thousands of\nplants for sale\, from old favorites to rare and hard-to-find varieties. Growers will offer perennials\,\nannuals\, trees and shrubs\, with an emphasis on herbs\, natives and heirloom plants. Gardening experts\nwill be available throughout the weekend to share their knowledge about plant selection and care\, and\nfolk and yard artisans will also be found throughout the grounds with unique plant and garden-related\narts and crafts. \nDemonstrations of springtime activities on the farm\, which is more than 200 years old\, helps to bring the\npre-Civil War years to life\, and are always highlights of the Fair. The Overmountain Weavers Guild\ncontinues their long tradition of “Sheep to Shawl” with sheep being sheared and the wool carded\, spun\ninto yarn and woven into a shawl within hours. In the blacksmith shop visitors may watch iron being\nshaped into nails\, hooks and other useful objects. The newly-renovated hearth kitchen will be filled with\nwonderful aromas as the Eden’s Ridge Hearth Cookery Society will be churning butter on Saturday\nand using the butter to make a pound cake on Sunday.  Meanwhile\, in the Cook’s Cabin\, they will be\nmaking hoecakes and other foods showcasing African American and rural Appalachian foodways. And\nthe Junior Apprentices will be hosting the second annual Tennessee Dancing Gourd Spin-Off and\ndemonstrating other chores and activities all over the farmstead.  In the garden\, they will be available to\ntalk about heirloom vegetables and herbs used in the 19th century. \nNumerous special events will highlight this year’s festival\, starting with a very unique memorial for\nDennis Marshall\, who passed away last July.  He was a Master Gardener and Southern Appalachian Plant\nSociety (SAPS) member who had been a regular volunteer at Exchange Place festivals for many years.\nWe are honoring Dennis by working with The American Chestnut Foundation (TACF) to help restore this\neconomically and ecologically significant tree species. The American chestnut is considered “functionally\nextinct” due to an airborne fungus (Cryphonectria parasitica) that was accidentally imported into the U.S\nin the late 1800s. The Foundation and its research partners are utilizing multiple approaches\, and\ncutting-edge science\, to develop a blight-resistant tree that can again survive and thrive in its native\nhome\, the eastern United States. Earlier this year\, TCAF donated three hybrid American chestnut trees\nto Exchange Place\, which have been planted. A formal dedication of a plaque honoring Dennis will take\nplace on Saturday\, April 29 at 4:15 pm\, and a spokesperson from TCAF will discuss the plight of the\ntree\, and share the latest research efforts towards restoration. \nBack by popular demand\, Jennifer Hanlon will be offering her beginner’s needle felting workshop\, in\nwhich people can learn the art of transforming fibers into a piece of art\, perfect for your springtime \ndecorating. This workshop\, which will be held on Sunday\, April 30th from noon to 4:00\, will allow\nyou to create your own little bunny! The cost is $65\, will be limited to no more than 10 participants\n(ages 10 and up only)\, and includes all the necessary supplies. Registration is done online; go to\nhttps://www.hanlonscreativecorner.com\, and scroll down to “Needle Felting Class Bunny” to sign up.\n(Please note that a deposit is required at the time of registration.) \nAlso on Sunday\, Linda Doan will once again lead the May Pole dance\, beginning at 2 pm\, with live music\nprovided by our very own Junior Apprentices Old-Time Band. And both days of the festival will feature\nFrank Ireson of Viking Leathercrafts demonstrating how shoes were made in the antebellum years\, using\nan authentic\, old-time Cobbler’s Bench\, donated to Exchange Place by Betty Moore.\nAs always\, there will be an abundance of activities for children\, with a focus this year on flowers and\npollination. And children of all ages will enjoy meeting our heritage animals\, including our brand-new\nbaby lambs. The larger critters — our resident cow\, donkey and horse – can be seen in the 1851 barn\,\nwhile our numerous sheep will be in a variety of locations\, with the chickens and roosters in their\nenclosed area behind the heritage garden. Speaking of the animals\, please note that all proceeds from\nthis event help with the care of our permanent residents\, as well as with the restoration and upkeep of\nthe site\, which is proudly listed on the National Register of Historic Places. \nMusic fills the air for much of the Spring Garden Fair. A wide assortment of local and regional talent is\nscheduled to perform throughout the weekend; a complete schedule is listed below. (Please note\,\nhowever\, that it is always subject to last-minute changes.) And don't worry\, if you get hungry or thirsty\,\nfood\, drinks and snacks will be available. \nMore information is available by calling 423-288-6071\, or by checking the Exchange Place website:\nexchangeplace.info. \nExchange Place is a non-profit\, volunteer-run living history farm\, educational facility and regional\nattraction that seeks to preserve\, protect\, interpret\, and manage the history\, heritage\, and artifacts\npertaining to mid-19 th century farm life in Northeast Tennessee. \nTENTATIVE MUSIC SCHEDULE \nSATURDAY\, APRIL 29 TIMES SUNDAY\, APRIL 30\nKINGSPORT COMMUNITY BAND 10 – 11 a.m. {gates open today at noon}\nTHE BUTTERNUTS 11 am – 12 noon {gates open today at noon}\nSTRING BREAK 12 noon – 1 p.m. DEXTER RAMEY AND FRIEND(S)\nCHRIS LONG 1 – 2 p.m. BUDDY DELP\nJIM ANN COUNTRY 2 – 3 p.m. STATE STREET STRING BAND\nJUNIOR APPRENTICES OLD-TIME \nBAND \n3 – 4 p.m. JUNIOR APPRENTICES OLD-TIME \nBAND \nRENAISSANCE STRINGS 4 – 5 p.m. HEATHER RUPE AND FRIEND(S)
URL:https://northeasttennessee.org/event/spring-garden-fair-3/2023-04-29/
LOCATION:Exchange Place: Living History Farm\, 4812 Orebank Rd.\, Kingsport\, TN\, 37664\, United States
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SUMMARY:Christmas in the Country
DESCRIPTION:Kingsport\, TN – The “most wonderful time of the year” gets its formal kickoff when Exchange Place\nhosts its annual Christmas in the Country celebration on Saturday\, December 3\, from 10:00 am\nuntil 4:00 pm at Kingsport’s tradition-rich Living History Farm\, located at 4812 Orebank Road.\nThis is the final public event of the year scheduled at the historic site\, which is proudly listed\non the National Register of Historic Places. Admission is $5 for adults and free for children\nunder 12. \nFresh greenery and trees and other holiday decorations will\, as always\, be a major feature of this\nfestival. Mountain City’s Vickie Price will be offering her wreaths and roping\, made with a wide variety\nof freshly-cut greenery\, as she has been doing for more than twenty years. Unique folk arts and crafts\,\ncreated by more than two dozen talented area and regional vendors in our area — such as hand-\ncrafted wood items\, handmade baskets\, pottery\, handmade greeting cards and jewelry — will be on\ndisplay and for sale. Everyone’s taste buds will be tempted with baked goods\, granolas\, and a variety\nof other foods that will be available to eat on site or to take home for gifts or for your own enjoyment.\nAnd master clock mechanic Rod Groenewold will be on hand with some of his collection of historic\ntimepieces for sale\, along with an antique Seth Thomas clock\, which Rod is offering in a silent auction\nto the highest bidder\, with the proceeds benefiting Exchange Place. \nChristmas in the Country furthers a mission of Exchange Place by demonstrating a slice of 1850s\nwintertime farm life in our region\, and showing how our ancestors would have set up for the holidays.\nFor the past year\, the reconstructed hearth kitchen has been closed as it underwent a major renovation\nby historic contractor Mike Faust and volunteer Heather Gilreath\, who replaced many decimated logs\,\nleveled the building\, expanded the porches\, and made other improvements. Now\, amidst great\nanticipation\, the kitchen will be open again for Christmas in the Country! In the newly\nrestored space\, the Eden’s Ridge Hearth Cookery Society will prepare foods that the Gaines and\nPreston families might have enjoyed during the Christmas season\, such as salsify fritters\, cinnamon\nwaffles\, and ginger cakes. In addition to making these treats\, the Junior Apprentices will be\ndemonstrating 19th-century children’s Christmas crafts in the School House\, trimming a tabletop tree in\nthe Gathering Room\, doing more cooking in the Cook’s Cabin\, and festooning the Yule Log.  They will\nalso be performing chores like chopping wood and assisting in the blacksmith shop\, where the skills\nthat were needed to make hardware and tools for the farm\, fix wagon wheels and\, of course\, shoe the\nhorses\, will be demonstrated throughout the day. The Junior Apprentices will also have a craft booth\,\nwhere they will offer for sale a number of handmade and historically-inspired goods\, including tulip\npoplar bark baskets\, hand-forged knives\, "Aunt El’s" pincushions\, and tin cookie cutters. And around\nthe farmstead\, children — or just the young at heart! — will have other opportunities to assist with\nwintertime activities\, such as candle-dipping\, decorating the traditional tree for the birds\, and visiting\nwith the animals who live at Exchange Place year-round. \nThe Overmountain Weavers will be on the porch at Roseland\, demonstrating weaving and spinning\,\nand sharing their handspun and handwoven items for sale. The Burow Museum will be open with\ndemonstrations of weaving on the restored rocker beater looms\, and visitors can try weaving one of\nSuzanne Burow's antique draft patterns on a smaller table loom. This will be the last chance for visitors \nto view the current exhibit of antique drafts and colorful skeins hand-dyed from garden flowers and\nherbs before the display is taken down for winter safekeeping. \nThe Museum Store always offers handcrafted items\, and this year includes a new book by long-time\nvolunteer Billee Moore\, a perfect stocking stuffer.  When visiting the store\, you will find something\nextra-special featured on the front porch: the first introduction of a doll that will be unique to\nExchange Place and ready for sale in the Spring.  Visitors are encouraged to come up with the\nhistoric name and offer changes to the design.  This is a follow-up to a doll created by several\nExchange Place volunteers decades ago; a history of this and other “ol' timey dolls” will be on display.\nA Kissing Ball workshop will take place from 1 to 2 pm. Using boxwood and other natural greenery\,\nparticipants will make a kissing ball to take home. The $10 fee includes all supplies and instruction\,\nplus admission to the festival. Space is limited\, so to register\, email\nexchangeplace.edu@gmail.com\, or call 423-288-6071. \nA very important part of this Christmas in the Country will be a remembrance of Dennis Marshall. A\nMaster Gardener\, frequent volunteer at Exchange Place and a long-time member of the Southern\nAppalachian Plant Society (SAPS)\, Dennis passed away unexpectedly earlier this year. In his memory\,\nwe are planning to plant a small grove of American Chestnut Trees and are inviting people to donate to\nthe cause of helping to restore this once-mighty hardwood. \nCapping off the day will be the traditional Yule Log Ceremony\, which will begin around 4:15 pm.\nOriginated by the Vikings\, it served as a way for them to honor their gods and request good luck in the\ncoming year. It spread to harvest festivals in Germany and Scandinavia\, then moved to England\, and\neventually was brought to the New World by the Pilgrims. The Yule Log is a Christmas in the Country\ntradition at Exchange Place\, a symbol of peace and good will for our wonderful community. Since it\nwas often decorated with evergreens and sometimes sprinkled with grain or cider before it was finally\nlit\, we encourage everyone to at least bring a twig and to wear fine\, colorful headgear to the event.\nWe will be singing several traditional carols\, and conclude the day with a cup of hot wassail\, which\nhelps us to emphasize the spirit of health and friendship. \nFor more information\, you may call Exchange Place at 423-288-6071\, write to\nepfestivals.gf@gmail.com\, or visit our website at https://www.exchangeplace.info. \nExchange Place is a living history farm whose mission is to preserve and interpret the heritage of mid-\nnineteenth century farm life in Northeast Tennessee. Exchange Place is a non-profit organization\nmaintained and operated by volunteers and is supported by donations\, fundraisers\, memberships and\ngrants.
URL:https://northeasttennessee.org/event/christmas-in-the-country-2/
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SUMMARY:Exchange Place: 50th Fall Folk Arts Festival
DESCRIPTION:Kingsport\, TN – Autumn is generally the most picturesque of seasons\, but this year the color gold will be predominant at Exchange Place\, as Kingsport’s Living History Farm holds its 50 th Fall Folk Arts Festival on Saturday\, September 24\, from 10 am until 5 pm\, and Sunday\, September 25\, from noon until 5 pm. This celebration of pioneer arts and crafts\, and the harvest season\, will feature artisans demonstrating and selling a wide variety of traditional folk arts\, along with autumn plants\, produce and unique seasonal items. Admission is $5 for ages 12 and over\, with those under the age of 12 admitted free. As always\, proceeds go towards the care of the farm’s animals\, and the continuing restoration and preservation of the site\, located at 4812 Orebank Road in Kingsport\, Tennessee and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Completely unique this year will be a Silent Auction featuring one or more baskets made especially by master weaver Joy Smith\, with a base painted by Ron Russum\, to commemorate this special golden milestone. And back by popular demand\, Jennifer Hanlon will be offering a needle felting beginners class on Sunday\, from noon until approximately 3 pm\, with an emphasis on – what else? – a pumpkin. The fee of $65 includes all supplies and instruction\, plus admission to the festival. A minimum of three (3) people are needed to register (adults only\, please\, as the dry-felting needles are sharp!). Advance registration is required at www.hanlonscreativecorner.com; payment will be collected at the workshop. The Overmountain Weavers Guild will be demonstrating weaving and spinning at several locations\, and selling some of their handwoven and handspun items. As an added treat\, the Burow Museum will be open\, with a unique exhibit in the South Room. There you will find samples and variations woven by members from the 72 drafts which came in a box with the very first loom bought for Exchange Place. They will also be weaving one of Suzanne Burow’s favorite drafts in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Overmountain Weavers Guild.  The North Room will feature yarns dyed with plants from the forests\, fields\, and gardens of Appalachia\, and two restored rocker beater looms in action!  These unique looms were donated to Exchange Place by Phyllis Dean\, whose Master’s Thesis documents rocker beater looms in the area; we are hopeful that she will be able to stop by sometime over the weekend. In addition to the weavers\, the historic farmstead will be filled with a great range of craftspeople\, including woodworkers\, potters and leather workers\, plus experts in soap-making\, photography\, hand-crafted greeting cards\, chair caning\, and hand-paintings on slate. Boy Scouts will be continuing the rope tradition began by Allen Calcote about 20 years ago. Artists and other vendors that have been at the Fall Festivals for the many years will be featured guests. The Eden’s Ridge Hearth Cookery Society will be cooking at the Cook’s Cabin\, making sweet potato biscuits and hoecakes to go along with fresh sorghum\, as well as a few other dishes featuring the fall harvest. In addition\, the Junior Apprentices will be active throughout the farmstead\, displaying the variety of chores and activities typical of 19th-century farm life\, such as splitting wood\, tending to the garden and the animals\, working in the blacksmith forge\, and playing games. They will also be demonstrating gourd crafting outside of the Cook’s Cabin. And the Tri-State Basketry Guild\, with a long history of teaching basketmaking to children during Exchange Place’s spring and fall events\, will be setting up shop in the Schoolhouse. A minimal fee is charged for their classes\, with proceeds going to help feed the farmstead’s resident animals. About that sorghum: the cane\, planted earlier this year\, will be harvested in a special area located behind the blacksmith’s shop. This very time-consuming task\, which can be observed on Saturday\, September 24\, will include a hard-working mule named Maggie\, making her very first appearance at Exchange Place. With the milling and cooking completed\, Sunday’s activities will consist of educational explanations about the mill\, the cane\, and the process of making sorghum\, as well as opportunities to visit the cane patch and compare sorghum cane with sugar cane to learn about the differences up close.  (Please note that what we produce is for demonstration purposes only\, but we will be offering for sale some 100% pure sorghum syrup\, made fresh this year by the Guenther family of Muddy Pond\, TN.) Children’s Chores\, Crafts and Play will be scattered around the farmstead\, allowing the young (along with those youthful in mind and spirit!) a chance to experience what it was like to be a child in the 19th Century. It will also include the opportunity to wander over to our 1851 barn and meet some of those animals who live here all year long\, including Jenny\, our very vocal donkey\, plus our cow and horse. Sheep\, chickens\, and pigs also call Exchange Place their home and might be seen throughout the weekend. And all of this will feature a backdrop of excellent live music\, provided by local and regional artists. (A tentative schedule\, always subject to last-minute changes\, is listed at the bottom of this release.) And the official countdown to Witches Wynd traditionally begins with the Fall Folk Arts Festival. Exchange Place’s unique storytelling adventure will be offered live again this year (after two years as an online-only experience)\, and tickets will be going on sale during the Festival. The dates for Witches Wynd are Friday\, October 21 and Saturday\, October 22\, and tickets must be purchased in advance. Historically\, this unique blend of macabre tales and ballads sells out quickly since only a limited number of spaces are available\, so we encourage people to purchase them during the Fall Festival. Tickets are $10 apiece and will be found at the Museum Store. Volunteers are always needed\, and greatly appreciated! If anyone is interested in helping out\, or would like more information\, please call Exchange Place at 423-288-6071\, write to epfestivals.gf@gmail.com\, or visit our website at https://www.exchangeplace.info. Exchange Place is a living history farm whose mission is to preserve and interpret the heritage of mid- nineteenth century farm life in Northeast Tennessee. Exchange Place is a non-profit organization maintained and operated entirely by volunteers and is supported by donations\, fundraisers\, memberships and grants. — 30 – MUSIC SCHEDULE FOR SATURDAY\, SEPTEMBER 24 10:00 – 11:00 am KINGSPORT COMMUNITY BAND 11:00 am – noon STRING BREAK noon – 1:00 pm CHRIS LONG 1:00 – 2:00 pm RENAISSANCE STRINGS 2:00 – 3:00 pm STATE STREET STRING BAND 3:30 – 4:00 pm JUNIOR APPRENTICES OLD-TIME BAND 4:00 – 5:00 pm STRAWBERRY JAM MUSIC SCHEDULE FOR SUNDAY\, SEPTEMBER 25 1:00 – 2:00 pm JIM ANN COUNTRY 2:00 – 3:00 pm THE FLYING J’S 3:30 – 4:00 pm JUNIOR APPRENTICES OLD-TIME BAND 4:00 – 5:00 pm RICHARD PHILLIPS
URL:https://northeasttennessee.org/event/exchange-place-50th-fall-folk-arts-festival/
LOCATION:Exchange Place: Living History Farm\, 4812 Orebank Rd.\, Kingsport\, TN\, 37664\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts/Crafts,Children's Activities,Festivals,General,Historical Events
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SUMMARY:Exchange Place: Heritage Sunday
DESCRIPTION:Kingsport\, TN – Last year\, Kingsport’s Living History Farm\, Exchange Place\, inaugurated a new\nevent\, Heritage Sunday\, which allowed people to tour the farmstead on certain select\ndays.  Heritage Sunday will be returning this year\, and the first such opening is scheduled for June\n26\, from 2 pm until 4:30 pm. \nExchange Place has three basic missions\, and all will be on display that day.  Our educational mission\nwill be represented by the vibrant Overmountain Weavers Guild\, who will be demonstrating their\nconsiderable talents in spinning and weaving\, and answering any questions that visitors may have\nabout the fiber arts.  The historical aspects of the farm will be on display as many of the buildings will\nfeature volunteers\, readily willing to share the history\, and other information\, about each particular\nstructure\, erected by either the Gaines or Preston families long before the War Between the States. \nThe garden\, which logically sits next to the kitchen\, will also be staffed with Master Gardeners\, who\nwill be able to describe what is grown there\, and how each item was used by families in those\nantebellum years.  And because Exchange Place remains an active\, working farm\, it features a\ncollection of resident animals\, most of whom will be highly visible.  People wanting to meet our horse\,\nShorthorn milking cow\, and a most vocal Jerusalem donkey\, should head on over to the 1851 Barn.\nThose aren't the only animals who live at Exchange Place\, however\, and our pair of American Guinea\nhogs\, chickens\, roosters\, and several sheep\, will likely be visible throughout the day. \nAdmission to the Heritage Sunday on June 26 is $5 per person\, with those under the age\nof 12 admitted free\, with all proceeds going towards the care of these resident animals\, plus the\ncontinued restoration and preservation of the site\, located at 4812 Orebank Road in Kingsport. \nFor more information\, please call Exchange Place at 423-288-6071\, write\nexchangeplacefestivals@gmail.com\, or visit our website –  https://www.exchangeplace.info .\nExchange Place is a living history farm whose mission is to preserve and interpret the heritage of mid-\nnineteenth century farm life in Northeast Tennessee. Exchange Place is a non-profit organization\nmaintained and operated entirely by volunteers and is supported by donations\, fundraisers\,\nmemberships and grants.
URL:https://northeasttennessee.org/event/exchange-place-heritage-sunday/
LOCATION:Exchange Place: Living History Farm\, 4812 Orebank Rd.\, Kingsport\, TN\, 37664\, United States
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SUMMARY:Spring Garden Fair at the Exchange Place Living History Farm
DESCRIPTION:Kingsport\, TN – A true celebration of heritage farming and heirloom gardening\, the Spring Garden\nFair at the Exchange Place Living History Farm is making its long-awaited return after a two-year\,\nCOVID-enforced hiatus. Long a favorite of area gardeners — novices and experts alike — the 36 th\nedition will be open to the public on Saturday\, April 30\, from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m.\, and Sunday\,\nMay 1\, from noon until 5 p.m.\, at the farmstead\, located at 4812 Orebank Road in Kingsport. \nThe oldest garden fair in the region\, the Spring Garden Fair will feature thousands of plants for sale\,\nfocusing on heritage and natives\, from old favorites to rare and hard-to-find varieties. Growers will offer\nperennials\, annuals\, trees and shrubs\, with an emphasis on herbs\, natives and heirloom plants. Sharing\ntheir knowledge about plant selection and care\, Master Gardeners and other gardening experts will be\navailable throughout the weekend to answer questions and make recommendations. In addition\, folk\nand yard artisans will also be found throughout the grounds with their unique plant and garden-related\narts and crafts\, while other vendors will offer sales of chicks\, bird feeders\, handmade soaps\, pottery\, tree\nchimes\, and much more\, including a wide variety of food choices. \nTrue to its mission\, Exchange Place will offer slices of 19 th century life in almost every corner. Our\nCotswold sheep will be getting their hair cut in the ritual shearing of the sheep. T.J. DeWitt will\nperform this necessary and fun chore on Saturday\, April 30\, between 10 am and noon\, then\nbetween 1 pm and 3 pm; and if you miss it on Saturday\, he will complete the task on Sunday\, May\n1\, between 1 pm and 3 pm. The Overmountain Weavers Guild will then take that wool and\ncontinue their long “Sheep to Shawl” tradition of carding (cleaning\, separating and straightening) the\nwool\, spinning it into yarn and weaving that yarn into scarves and\, perhaps\, other beautiful and wearable\nitems. All are invited to help with the carding. \nThe Overmountain Weavers Guild will also be prominently featured in the Burow Museum\, with an\nexhibit on the fiber traditions of our Appalachian region. A highlight will be antique weaving patterns\nfrom the mid-19 th century that were discovered by our own Suzanne Burow. Also showcased will be two\nantique Appalachian rocker beater looms\, rarely seen nowadays\, that have recently been restored and\nwill be in use\, as members of the Guild weave curtains that will\, when completed\, be hung in the historic\nPreston House. \nA very special feature at this year’s Spring Garden Fair will be the appearance of Jennifer Hanlon. A\nmultimedia artist with a focus on fiber\, the Johnson City resident discovered needle felting a couple of\nyears ago\, and will be offering a workshop on Sunday\, May 1\, between 1 pm and 4 pm. Needle\nfelting is a very therapeutic craft that involves repeatedly stabbing a special type of needle into a piece of\nwool to stiffen and shape it into the desired form.  The cost for this workshop is $65\, which includes all\nsupplies and admission to the festival; a minimum of three (3) people are needed to register (adults only\,\nplease\, as the dry-felting needles are sharp!). You can register at www.hanlonscreativecorner.com\,\npayment will be collected at the workshop. \nWhile the hearth kitchen restoration continues\, the Eden’s Ridge Hearth Cookery Society will be\ncreating the kinds of foods popular in the mid-19 th century in the Cook’s Cabin and\, hopefully\, also\nutilizing the bread oven. The Junior Apprentices\, as per usual\, will be in a variety of places\, performing\nchores and offering insights about how life was lived on an antebellum Northeast Tennessee farm. They\nwill also be hosting a Tennessee Dancing Gourd “spin off” competition near the Cook’s Cabin (day and\ntime still to be determined)\, while their Old-Time Band will be performing during a Maypole Dance. This\nceremony originated in ancient times and celebrated the fruitfulness associated with spring; it was\nrevived in the 19 th century and everyone is invited to welcome the season on Sunday\, May 1\, at 2 pm.\nA wide variety of hands-on children’s activities will be found all around the grounds\, and young’uns will\ncertainly want to say hello to the resident animals\, including Delilah (our cow)\, Jenny (our donkey)\,\nChance (our horse)\, plus our numerous sheep. \nAs always\, music will fill the air during the Spring Garden Fair\, as an overabundance of local talent is\nscheduled to perform throughout the weekend. A complete schedule is listed below (though it is always\nsubject to last-minute changes). And don't worry\, if you get hungry or thirsty\, baked goods\, lunch\,\ndrinks and snacks (including the ever-popular funnel cakes and kettle corn!) will be available.\nAdmission is $5 for anyone over the age of 12 and free for everyone else. All proceeds from\nthe event help with the restoration and upkeep of the site\, which is proudly listed on the National\nRegister of Historic Places. \nThe Spring Garden Fair strives to be as environmentally friendly as possible with recycling\,\ncomposting\, and re-using.  Visitors are encouraged to bring their own plant carriers and to bring used\nnursery pots for recycling/reusing. Exchange Place is a non-profit\, volunteer-run living history farm\,\neducational facility and regional attraction that seeks to preserve\, protect\, interpret\, and manage the\nhistory\, heritage\, and artifacts pertaining to mid-19 th century farm life in Northeast Tennessee. For more\ninformation\, please call 423-288-6071\, or visit our website: www.exchangeplace.info. \n— 30 — \nMUSIC SCHEDULE \nSATURDAY\, APRIL 30 TIMES SUNDAY\, MAY 1\nKINGSPORT COMMUNITY BAND 10 – 11 a.m. {gates open today at noon}\nSTRING BREAK 11 am – 12 noon {gates open today at noon}\nSTATE STREET STRING BAND 12 noon – 1 p.m. CHRIS LONG\nJIM ANN COUNTRY 1 – 2 p.m. RED AND GRAY\nTHE BUTTERNUTS 2 – 3 p.m.\nJUNIOR APPRENTICES OLD-TIME \nBAND \n3 – 3:30 p.m. JUNIOR APPRENTICES OLD-TIME \nBAND\nRENAISSANCE STRINGS 4 – 5 p.m. STRAWBERRY JAM
URL:https://northeasttennessee.org/event/spring-garden-fair-at-the-exchange-place-living-history-farm/2022-04-30/
LOCATION:Exchange Place: Living History Farm\, 4812 Orebank Rd.\, Kingsport\, TN\, 37664\, United States
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SUMMARY:Exchange Place: Christmas in the Country
DESCRIPTION:Kingsport\, TN – Christmas in the Country\, the annual celebration of winter and the holiday season at\nExchange Place Living History Farm\, 4812 Orebank Road in Kingsport\, will take place on Saturday\,\nDecember 4\, from 10:00 am until 4:00 pm. Following the procedure we established with our recent\nFall Folk Arts Festival\, all activities will once again take place outdoors\, and all CDC guidelines will be\nobserved\, as we continue to battle against the COVID-19 pandemic. Admission will be $5 for adults\nand free for children under 12. \nFresh greenery and handcrafted wreaths will\, as always\, be a major feature of this festival\, along with\nunique folk arts and handcrafts created by a wide variety of local and regional artisans\, plus favorite holiday\nfoods made from generations-old recipes. The celebration also features hands-on experiences for all ages\,\nand demonstrations of wintertime activities on the 19 th -century farmstead\, listed on the National Register of\nHistoric Places. \nMore than just another shopping opportunity\, Christmas in the Country will offer a glimpse into what farm\nlife was like in our region prior to the War Between the States. Our blacksmith shop will be up and running\,\ndemonstrating the historic skills needed to make hardware and tools for the farm\, fix wagon wheels and\, of\ncourse\, shoe the horses. \nThe Overmountain Weavers Guild will be displaying weaving and spinning at several locations around the\nfarmstead\, as well as offering their unique handwoven and hand knitted gift items on the Roseland front\nporch. Of special interest may be the sale of Cotswold fleece products\, made from the wool of Exchange\nPlace’s own Cotswold sheep! Proceeds from all Cotswold fiber sales remain on the farm to support our\nheritage livestock\, just as all money collected at the gate is used to maintain the buildings and grounds\,\nand see to the daily needs of our animals. \nThe heritage kitchen is currently undergoing restoration and will therefore not be open\, but the Eden’s\nRidge Hearth Cookery Society\, including our Junior Apprentices\, will be making ginger cakes in the Cook’s\nCabin and baking them in the outdoor bread oven.  The JAs will also be making old-fashioned Christmas\ntree decorations\, and selling a variety of handmade items such as bark baskets\, tin cookie cutters\, pin\ncushions\, and Christmas ornaments in a craft sale booth\, located under the large Visitor’s tent.\nChildren's activities are always a feature at our festivals. Youngsters can try their hand at winter chores and\nplay as children would have done in the 19th century. They can also take part in our annual custom of\ndecorating a tree for the birds. In addition\, children of all ages will enjoy meeting and interacting with the\nanimals who live at Exchange Place year-round. \nCapping the day is the traditional Yule Log Ceremony\, which will begin around 4:15 pm and will be free to\nthe public. Originated by the Vikings\, it served as a way for them to honor their gods and request good\nluck in the coming year. Later it was incorporated into the harvest festivals of Germany and Scandinavia\,\nthen moved to England when the Normans conquered the isles and eventually migrated to the New World\nwith the Pilgrims. While a Yule Log may or may not have been part of the traditional celebration during the\nantebellum years\, we like to make it a part of our Christmas in the Country as a symbol of peace and good\nwill for our wonderful community. Since it was often decorated with evergreens and sometimes sprinkled\nwith grain or cider before it was finally lit\, we encourage everyone to bring a sprig to cast onto the fire\, and\nalso to wear fine\, colorful headgear to the event\, which will conclude with the singing of carols and\, of\ncourse\, a cup of hot wassail! Derived from the Anglo-Saxon “waes hael\,” which meant “Be in Health” or\n“Here’s to You\,” wassail helps us to emphasizes the spirit of health and friendship. \nFor more information\, you may call Exchange Place at 423-288-6071\, or log onto\nemail@exchangeplace.info . \nExchange Place is a living history farm whose mission is to preserve and interpret the heritage of mid-\nnineteenth century farm life in Northeast Tennessee. Exchange Place is a non-profit organization maintained\nand operated by volunteers and is supported by donations\, fundraisers\, memberships and grants.
URL:https://northeasttennessee.org/event/exchange-place-christmas-in-the-country-2/
LOCATION:Exchange Place: Living History Farm\, 4812 Orebank Rd.\, Kingsport\, TN\, 37664\, United States
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SUMMARY:Heritage Autumn Sunday
DESCRIPTION:Kingsport\, TN – This autumn belongs to Exchange Place. Following the very successful return of the Fall Folk\nArts Festival in late September\, the Living History Farm will be producing two more events in October that are\nguaranteed to add color and excitement to a season that is always known for its color and excitement. \nOn Sunday\, October 17\, from 2 pm until 4:30 pm\, we will hold our very first Heritage Autumn\nSunday. Admission is $5 per person\, with those under the age of 12 admitted free. As always\, all\nproceeds go towards the care of the farm’s resident animals\, and the continued restoration and preservation of\nthe site\, located at 4812 Orebank Road in Kingsport. It will follow in the footsteps of the Heritage Summer\nSunday inaugurated back in August\, and will honor the beauty and creativity of fall with an afternoon filled\nwith individual ingenuity\, common among the artisans who can often be found at Exchange Place.\nThree prominent craftspeople will be displaying their skills. Isaac Hendershot is a blacksmith and iron worker\nwho has been “forging in fire” since 2015\, and demonstrating at Exchange Place for the past three years. In\nthe years before the War Between the States\, a blacksmith was a very essential person in every community\,\nand Isaac will put those skills on display\, and answer questions\, in our blacksmith shop. Vickie Almaroad\, a\nmember of the Overmountain Weavers Guild and a producer of flax and linen\, will show how one can process\nflax into fiber. (Other members of the Guild will be demonstrating their skills in the fiber arts.) And Joy Smith\,\nwho has been making baskets for more than three decades\, will demonstrate different types of basket making\,\nincluding Nantucket\, Shaker\, and simple market baskets. \nExchange Place is listed on the National Register of Historic Places\, and one of the prime reasons is that\nseveral of our buildings are original to the site\, having been built by either the Gaines or Preston families after\nthe conclusion of the War of 1812. Many of these priceless buildings will feature our knowledgeable\nvolunteers\, who will be happy to expound on the history of each structure\, as well as offer up other juicy\ntidbits that will help place the farmstead within the context of life in Northeast Tennessee in the early 19 th\ncentury. The garden\, which logically sits next to the kitchen\, will also be staffed with Master Gardeners\, who\nwill be able to describe what is grown there\, and how each item was used by families in the antebellum years.\nAnd of course\, people love seeing and interacting with our resident animals. Included among our flock of\nsheep are some who were born just this past spring! They are joined by two roosters\, seven hens and a chick;\na horse; a Shorthorn milking cow; a Jerusalem donkey; and a pair of American Guinea hogs. They will all be\nvisible\, with some of them accessible for a “meet-and-greet” in the 1851 barn. \nNow\, in our very first paragraph\, we mentioned that Exchange Place has two major events scheduled for\nOctober. In addition to the Heritage Autumn Sunday on October 17\, the extremely popular Witches\nWynd will be held\, and like last year will be a virtual affair\, due to the continued presence of COVID-19.\nThis will be the 29 th consecutive year that we will be offering tales of mystery and the supernatural\, told by\nsome of the finest storytellers in our region. This 2021 edition will also feature music and a very special\nintroduction from Billee Moore\, who created Witches Wynd for Exchange Place more than a quarter of a\ncentury ago. More complete information will be released next week. \nFor more information on Heritage Autumn Sunday on October 17\, you may call Exchange Place at 423-\n288-6071\, write to exchangeplacefestivals@gmail.com\, or visit our website at\nhttps://www.exchangeplace.info. \nExchange Place is a living history farm whose mission is to preserve and interpret the heritage of mid-\nnineteenth century farm life in Northeast Tennessee. Exchange Place is a non-profit organization maintained\nand operated entirely by volunteers and is supported by donations\, fundraisers\, memberships and grants.
URL:https://northeasttennessee.org/event/heritage-autumn-sunday/
LOCATION:Exchange Place: Living History Farm\, 4812 Orebank Rd.\, Kingsport\, TN\, 37664\, United States
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