Events

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Sequoyah Birthplace Museum
The Sequoyah Birthplace Museum schedules guest lectures, crafts demonstrations and special events throughout the year.

The annual Fall Festival held in conjunction with the Fort Loudoun Eighteenth Century Trade Faire the first weekend after Labor Day in September. The Fall Festival is a celebration of Cherokee heritage and life highlighting Cherokee crafts people, artists and demonstrators. The two-day event features traditional dancing, stickball games, blowgun demonstrations and a variety of native foods such as fry bread and bean bread.

Nancy Ward Days held each spring at the museum are designed for K-12 students: school field trips, home school students, Girl and Boy Scouts, youth organizations as well as the general public. Activities include demonstrations and lessons in crafts, music and dance, storytelling, food, history and lifeways, games, and much more.

Sequoyah Birthplace Museum
PO Box 69; Highway 360, Vonore, TN 37885
(423) 884-6246
www.sequoyahmuseum.org

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Fort Loudoun State Historic Area
Fort Loudoun comes alive during the 18th Century Trade Faire, and annual reenactment cent held concurrently with the Sequoyah Birthplace Museum Fall Festival the first weekend after Labor Day in September. Modern regenerators dressed in period costume as British Colonial Soldiers, soldiers wives and children, traders and Cherokee men and women, a two-day bazaar which features mid-eighteenth century crafts, food and music.

18th Century Christmas traditions are featured at Fort Loudoun each December. Workshops and special events feature crafts, music and holiday activities.

A living history weekend features the Independent Company of South Carolina during Garrison Weekends throughout the year. This group recreates the lives of the soldiers and civilians who originally occupied Fort Loudoun. While in garrison the daily activities of a frontier fort are carried out. The soldiers drill with muskets and cannon. Food is cooked in the bake oven and in the fireplaces. The Cherokee come to trade. A real touch of the 18th Century returns to Fort Loudoun.

Fort Loudoun State Historic Area 338 Fort Loudoun Road; Vonore, TN 37885
(423) 884-6217
www.fortloudoun.com

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Red Clay State Historic Park
During the first weekend in August, Red Clay State Historic Park invites the public to a festival weekend, Cherokee Days of Recognition. Performers and crafts demonstrators from the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians participate in this event. The Interpretive Center is open at this time, as are the hiking trail and picnic facilities.

On the first Sunday afternoon in December, the park stages a Nineteenth Century Cherokee Christmas at the reconstructed farmstead. Cherokee demonstrators prepare traditional foods in the fireplace or over open fires and recreate artisan crafts such as beadwork and finger weaving.

Red Clay State Historic Park
1140 Red Clay Park Road, SW; Cleveland, TN 37311
(423) 478-0339

(See our full Calendar of Events for a detailed listing of these, and other events in the area.)


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