Irish festival benefits Second Harvest
The Irish community of Knoxville and Second Harvest Food Bank are teaming up to have some fun and help feed the hungry in East Tennessee with the second annual East Tennessee Irish Festival, set for 1-10 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 22 on the World's Fair Park Festival Lawn.
The festival will begin with the marching of Knoxville's Pipes and Drums and a flag-raising ceremony.
Bands will entertain throughout the day, with acts including the Dublin City Ramblers, Shamrock Road, Sigean Band as well as members of the Drake School of Irish Dance. A variety of Irish food and drink will be offered, and there will children's activities, including an inflatable play area, face painting and more.
Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for UT students, police officers and firefighters; children ages 12 and under will be admitted free. Tickets are available at the gates.
Second Harvest Food Bank of East Tennessee has worked to eliminate hunger since 1982. With six major programs and 450 food partners, Second Harvest distributes food to more than 145,000 children, adults and seniors each month in East Tennessee.
Ingram concert at Blount Library
Maryville native and opera mezzo-soprano Amanda Ingram performs at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 20, at the Blount County Public Library. The concert, the third of the library's Hot Summer Nights series, is in the library's reading rotunda.
Ingram, who has performed from Boston to Italy, will present a concert that includes music from Mozart to "You'll Never Walk Alone" by Rodgers and Hammerstein.
The concert is free. The library is at 508 N. Cusick St. in Maryville.
Lincoln flags, banners restored
Two flags and two banners connected with President Abraham Lincoln have seen restored with a Saving America's Treasures grant. The items are a flag that flew over Lincoln's funeral procession as well as a flag and two banners that were part of Lincoln's 1858 Senate bid.
The items are now displayed at the Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum. The museum is on the Lincoln Memorial University campus in Harrogate, Tenn.
The grant of slightly less than $30,000 was part of the $7.6 million in Saving America's Treasures allocations announced by The President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities and the National Park Service.
The grants were given in January 2008 in collaboration with the National Endowment for the Art, National Endowment for the Humanities and Institute of Museum and Library Services. Thirty-one organizations were given money to conserve significant American cultural and historic treasures.
Bark for Life is Saturday
The American Cancer Society Bark For Life for dogs and their human companions is 5-8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 22, at Tommy Schumpert Park, 6400 Fountain City Road. The event includes a walk and contests.
Human-dog companion teams pay $20 to participate; the fee includes a leash for the canine and a T-shirt for the human. Each dog added to the team is $5.
For more information or to register, call 865-584-1668.
Lost and Found Lunch about Smokies
The next in Knox Heritage's series of "Lost & Found" lunches is Thursday, Aug. 20.
Don Barber, senior director of the National Parks Conservation Association's southeast region, will discuss the significance of the creation of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
The lunch is at The Foundry, 747 World's Fair Park Drive, Knoxville.<0x00A0>A buffet is at 11:30 a.m.; the program at noon. Buffet cost is $10 for Knox Heritage and NPCA members; $15 non-members.<0x00A0>Reservations are required for the buffet by calling 865-523-8008 no later than 5 p.m. Monday, Aug. 17.<0x00A0>
Athens theater season starts in September
The Athens Community Theatre's first 2009-10 season production is 'The Miracle Worker.' Performances are at the Sue E. Trotter Theater at The Arts Center in Athens.
'The Miracle Worker' is based on the real-life story of Helen Keller and her teacher Annie Sullivan.
The play opens with a 6 p.m. Sept. 10 dinner theater; tickets are $25. Other shows are 7:30 p.m. Sept. 11-12 and Sept. 18-19 with 2 p.m. matinees on Sept. 13 and Sept. 20. Tickets for those performances are $10 adults, $8 students. Tickets are at www.athensartscouncil.org or 423-745-8781.
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