Cranberry Festival to benefit Shady Valley Elementary School

Cranberry Festival to benefit Shady Valley Elementary School

The Cranberry Festival is an event to benefit Shady Valley Elementary, is October 11-13. The school was built with community hands from local field rock and, now extinct, wormy chestnut as a WPA project in 1938.

On Thursday, October 11th, there will be storytelling at the school from 7 - 9 PM.

On Friday, October 12th, there will be a bean supper at the school starting at 5 PM. An auction is scheduled to begin at 7 PM.

On Saturday, October 13th, from 7:30 - 9:30 AM the Shady Valley Volunteer Fire will serve breakfast. The parade will begin at 10 AM, which will include the Pride of Johnson County Band, Shriners Crazy Cars, Floats, Antique Cars, Antique Tractors, clowns, horses, and more. Entertainment at the daylong event on the school grounds will include bluegrass music, gospel music, square dancing, clogging, line dancing, and a cake walk.

Activities for young children will include games, face painting, Mr. Moonwalk, Farmer Picklehammer's train and more. A helicopter will take you for rides above the valley. There will be a horseshoe tournament. Try your skill at batting against the pitching machine set up on the lower ball field. There will be exhibits of quilts, native American artifacts, wildlife show of nocturnal animals, photography, hobbies, apple butter making, cranberry bog museum and lecture, pumpkin art, school memorabilia, Shady Valley afghan.

Don't miss the self-guiding tours of native Jesse Jenkins Cranberry Bog, Orchard Bog wetlands restoration, and Schoolyard (boiling) Springs. Knowledgeable personnel from The Nature Conservancy will assist you.

Over 50 booths and over 15 different varieties of food booths will be set up.

Festival sweatshirts, caps, candles, key chains, ballpoint pens, and note cards with a panoramic view of Shady Valley are available from The Cranberry Festival Committee, P.O. Box 44, Shady Valley, TN 37688.