09/30/2023
A full-day festival at Western Carolina University focuses on old-time fun, including wagon rides, sack races, and clogging. There are heritage craft demonstrations, from wood carving to Cherokee basket-making. On the main stage and in tents, gospel, old time, bluegrass and acoustic musicians entertain, along with cloggers. There’s a classic car show and chainsaw competition. The highlight is the Cherokee stickball demonstration and match, keeping alive a sport that’s been played in the mountains for hundreds of years. » Western Carolina University, 1 University Way; Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; www.wcu.edu