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• September 11-20: Tennessee Valley Fair • October 8-11: Tennessee Fall Homecoming
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With something for everyone, this fair
The Museum of Appalachia’s event
offers entertainment, rides, fireworks,
features five stages of bluegrass, old-time
vendors and even tractor pulls and a
mountain music and gospel, demonstrations
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demolition derby.
and Appalachian dishes like cornbread, fruit
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cobbler and chicken & dumplings.
• September 27: Lantern and Carriage Tour www.museumofappalachia.org
Celebrating the 75th anniversary of the • October 24: Knoxville Brewers’ Jam
Great Smoky Mountains, history comes Celebrate handmade American craft beer
alive at Old Gray Cemetery through
along with live music and great food. This
reenactments and horse-drawn carriages. festival offers an opportunity to sample
Hear stories of war, violence, kidnapping beer from countless brewers from the
and even love affairs.
Knoxville region.
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Knoxville was one of a dozen cities
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Many realtors believe the local market has the 2008 Solar America Cities program.
bottomed out and is slowly starting to The cities, ranging in size from large
real estate
climb again, although the Knoxville area municipalities like Houston, Denver and
market hasn’t suffered a large a drop in Boston to smaller ones like Santa Rosa, CA
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value as many markets have. The median were selected based on their commitment
home list price was $129,500 at the end of to reducing the barriers to widespread
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May 2009, and the median sale price was deployment of solar technology.
$119,600; that’s only a 1. 7 percent decrease
The Knoxville Utilities Board (KUB), the
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good indication that homes in the area are are working together to provide KUB’s cus-
fairly priced, so you know you’re getting a tomers the option of utilizing Green Power.
good value for your dollar.
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