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By Libby MorganUnion County will shut down

Main Street this Saturday to cele-brate all things artistic especial-ly music. Art on Main is set for 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, June 4, in historic downtown Maynardville, the Cradle of Country Music.

The free arts and music festival will honor Chet Atkins and cel-ebrate the music of Union County. It is on, rain or shine. The Chet At-kins Tribute will be led by musicol-ogist and radio host James Perry.

In the fl avor of Chets legend-ary thumb picking-style of guitar playing, Parker Hastings will per-form. He is 15-years-old and holds the current title of national thumb picking champion in the adult category. Tommy Emmanuel in-troduced Hastings to a Knoxville audience at his concert on May 21 at the Bijou when he invited Hast-ings to join him on stage. Parker will be performing on the noon-day WDVX Blue Plate Special on Friday, June 3.

Songwriter Eli Fox will bring

his original Americana music to the Back Porch Stage. He is a multi-instrumentalist who has ap-peared on the Blue Plate, Knoxville Stomp, and is scheduled to per-form at the 2016 Bristol Rhythm and Roots. Fox is a rising senior at Webb School in Knoxville.

Knox County Jug Stompers, The Valley Boys, Knoxville Banjo Cotillion with Greg Horne and Kyle Campbell, Swamp Ghost and Virginia Faith also will perform.

Union County veterans will kick off the day with an opening ceremony at 8:45 a.m.

Fine arts and craft demon-strations will be throughout the grounds, including glassblowing by Matt Salley of Marble City Glass-works, metalsmithing by Amber Crouse, apple butter making, corn shuck dolls by Anne Freels, slab woodworking by David West, and fi ne art painting by Brian Whitson.

There will be shade tree and porch pickin with everyone wel-come to join in.

Shabby Chic 33 Boutique will

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Parker Hastings at the Country Music Hall of Fame earlier this year.

Multi-instrumentalist Eli Fox has just signed on to the lineup for Satur-days Art on Main in Maynardville

hold a Fabulous 40s and 50s fash-ion show, featuring female profes-sionals and offi ceholders of Union County modeling spring and sum-mer attire from Shabby Chics clothing and accessory lines.

Student Art Competition will be held in the former offi ce of the late Dr. Carr. Kids activities include the Art on Main train, face paint-ing, art projects and ga mes. Sev-enty vendors will offer homemade and handcrafted goods, country food, concessions and live plants.

Oakes Daylilies will give away daylilies while they last. Theres a farmers market at Wilson Park and a kids health day at the May-nardville Public Library.

Art on Main is produced by the Union County Arts Council, a non-profi t community organization dedicated to preserving and cel-ebrating the rich cultural heritage of Union County, Tennessee. Info on Facebook at Art on Main 2016

Looking backOral History project captures

history of Farragut

Julia Barham, coordinator of the Farragut Folklife Mu-seum, and Steve Stow, museum committee chair, look over items donated through the Oral History program. Photos by Carolyn Evans

By Carolyn EvansThe town of Farragut may be

relatively new as towns go, but what came before from the vil-lage of Concord to Civil War bat-tles to the agricultural community is rich in history.

Capturing that history has be-

come an interesting pastime for Farragut resident and Farragut Folklife Museum committee chair Steve Stow. Under the direction of museum coordinator Julia Bar-ham, Stow has collected 25 to 30 one-hour video recordings of Far-ragut area residents who have his-

tory to share. He still has a list of future interviewees waiting for him.

We started with Barbra Beeler who worked at the museum for many years, says Barham. She was a docent here for us and a committee chair. Shes a wealth of

historical information on the area. Then we started trying to get peo-ple recorded on a variety of topics the village of Concord, Farragut High School, the establishment of the town of Farragut.

Signs and landscaping top quiet BOMA meetingBy Sherri Gardner Howell

In Farragut, there always seems to be something brewing about signs.

Mike Mitchell was at the Farra-gut Board of Mayor and Aldermen meeting on Thursday with one of the towns new informational signs on zoning changes in hand. He got

it off the ground near Brixworth subdivision, and he was returning it to the town, but not before he used it to make his point: The sign is too hard to read from the street.

It was a return performance for Mitchell, who spoke fi rst about the signs the week before at the Farra-gut Municipal Planning Committee

meeting. The MPC wouldnt let him load his pictures of the sign into the computer to give a visual of what he considers the problem, so, this time, he just brought along a sign.

In the end, all was friendly and cordial, with Community Develop-ment Director Mark Shipley agree-ing, as he had at the MPC meeting,

that the signs needed some work.He didnt agree to go back to theold black and white Use On Re-view signs, but did invite Mitchellto participate in the process of re-vamping the new ones.

Sand volleyball ahead for town

The town of Farragut is now accepting registrations for its summer sand volleyball and fall softball leagues. The sand vol-leyball leagues begin the week of July 11; the softball leagues begin the week of Aug. 8. All leagues will be played at Mayor Bob Leonard Park, located at 301 Watt Road.

Area churches, businesses and other organizations are invited to participate.

The registration and payment deadline for sand volleyball is Monday, June 27, at 5 p.m.; the deadline for softball is Monday, July 25, at 5 p.m. Sand volleyball leagues are $165 per team, and softball leagues are $325 per team.

Info: townoffarragut.org/register or 218-3373

Church sponsors block party

Close to 100 members and guests turned out for the Far-ragut Christian Church Block Party on Sunday at the church home, 138 Admiral Rd. While adults enjoyed conversations at shaded tables, the children did what children do best: Ran, jumped, scooted, skipped, tossed Frisbees and rode bikes all around the grassy lawn and church parking lot.

Sherris got pictures on page A-7

Behind the scenes at Savellis

Elizabeth Liz Savelli is completing 23 years running a popular neighborhood restau-rant, Savellis, in West Knox-ville. She opened up on March 1, 1993, and has been at 3055 Sutherland Avenue ever since.

She said her most famous guest was Willard Scott, whom HGTV introduced to Savellis. But other well-known patrons have included Tommy Lasorda, and chef Tim Love.

Read Victor Ashe on page A-5

Bike to Work DayThe 16th annual Bike to

Work Day was delayed by rain and rescheduled for 7:30-8:30 a.m. Friday, June 3, at Market Square. Stop by on your bike and grab baked goods from Wild Love Bakehouse and cof-fee from Trio Cafe!

Want to bike to work, but arent sure about the best route? Or would you just like some company along the way for a change? Meet at Third Creek Greenway trailhead (130 Forest Park Blvd.) at 7:15 a.m. to go from Bearden to down-town and UT.

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No one mentioned bring-ing charges against Mitchell

for taking the sign

O t h e r items of business at the BOMA m e e t i n g i n c l u d e d r e z o n i n g , on second and fi nal

reading, 6 acres of land on McFee Road; the approval of the Farragut 13.1 and Half Marathon for Oct. 29 (the third year for the event); the approval of an auditing contract with Ingram, Over-holt and Bean, P.C.; and an end-of-year report by Jo-

seph Konvicka, the towns AmeriCorps worker.

Also approved, and something to watch, was a contract between TDOT and the town for landscap-ing and maintenance of the eastbound and westbound ramps off I-40 at Campbell Station Road. It is the only interstate entrance to the town that is act