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ARTS & CRAFTS

Handmade items from many talented crafters and artisans!

Vendors offer everything from paintings and photographs, pottery, floral arrangements, wood crafts and turnings, doll clothes, dolls, toys, jewelry, candles, soap, and decorative accessories.

All items must be handmade, hand-decorated or hand designed as no commercial products are allowed. The museum gift shops will also be selling their products! 

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FAMILY FUN

Kids will have so much fun with the endless FREE activities from horse-drawn wagon rides and a petting zoo with the Shadden & Carmley families; tractor pulled hay rides ;  

a Vol Fed Saw Dust Dig for Cash & Treasures with prizes and over $200 worth of quarters hidden in the saw dust; the Tellico Police Kids Train along the Walking Trail; a huge inflatable Kids Zone with a Rock Wall; Mecca Camp Resort's  Gaming Zone;  and Kid’s Crafts & Activities at The Tellico Plains Library area and Tender Heart Ministries booths! 

Stop by the Beauty For Ashes Booth for some creative face painting and hair color! 

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So many activities! Face painting, pumpkin painting and more!

Princesses and Princes will be on location!

Dig for cash & prizes at the Vol Fed Saw Dust Dig

Tellico Plains Public Library & Tender Heart Ministries Provide Free
Kid's Crafting Tables! 

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Children love the ponies! 

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Zone is so much fun! 

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... horse-drawn wagon rides! 

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Ride the Tellico Plains Pollice Train! 

A Large Inflatable Kids Zone includes a 27' Rock Wall!

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Tractor Pulled Hay Rides! 

FOOD

Come hungry to the Cherohala Skyway Festival!

We have food everyone will enjoy!

                First Baptist will offer a free pancake breakfast from 8:30-10 a.m.!

     The Hall Museum has so much support. We are thankful for our friends who cook for the museum at the Cherohala Skyway Festival! A & A Meat will be grilling thick slices of  bologna on grilled Texas toast with grilled onions or grilled cheese sandwiches. Slim’s Burger Joint with offer burger and cheese burger baskets  and loaded hot dogs with all the southern fixins including French Fries and Mozzarella sticks!    There will be food trucks on site including smoked BBQ,  Mexican food,  Hibachi dishes  and so many other favorite foods! 

For dessert, try  funnel cakes,  popcorn, gourmet caramel apples, cotton candy, sno cones, pork skinz, freeze dried candy, jerky & a wide variety of baked goods!

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LIVING HISTORY

All ages will step back in time in the Living History areas. There will be demonstrations and games showing life of the early settler and Cherokee  in the early 1800s.  Learn about the favorite games of the Cherokee, beading and corn husk doll making!  Interact with 18th Century camps and taste dishes cooked over an open fire. A Long Hunters camp will have all the camping equipment used by these early frontiersman  as they crossed the Appalachian mountains into the American frontier.  Learn more about the Cherokee in our area and their removal through forced treaties and later forced removal through the Hall Museum's displays in building 1 and the Tennessee Trail of Tears booth. 

Learn to use a cross cut saw at the Benton MacKaye Trail Association’s booth, watch a grist mill as it grinds corn into cornmeal, use a corn sheller,  learn about blacksmithing and watch iron ore smelting throughout the day! Early settlers will be weaving, quilting, grinding herbs,  and blowing fox horns! 

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Corn husk doll making, beading, quilting and pottery 
demonstrations throughout the day! 

We make living history an immersive experience at the Cherohala Skyway Festival.

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Antique Tractors & Lawn Mowers, Small Engines, Vintage Farm Equipment & Tools 

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A wide variety of antique machines, equipment and vehicles spark lots of interest. Many are over 100 years old and some are still being used! No entry fee or registration required. Just bring your prized possession to the Charles Hall Field at 122 Bank Street at 8:30 a.m. Enter at the Event Sign  on Bank Street across from Hardees and before  Tellicafe. The “More the Merrier!” Call  James Blankenship for more information, 423-519-6009 or email or call the Hall Museum at charleshallmuseum@hotmail.com, 423-253-8000!

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