Calendar of Events

The Mabry-Hazen Hose invites you to join us for our annual Christmas Tours. Rooms and other areas will be decorated by local groups including: The Flower Pot, Samuel Franklin, Scott Morrell of Flowers, as well as the volunteers and museum staff. The event is free of charge and light refreshments will be served. Tour times are as follows: December 10th from 5-8pm, and December 11th from 2-5 pm.

Mabry-Hazen House, 1711 Dandridge Avenue, Knoxville, TN, 37915. For information: 865-522-8661, www.mabryhazen.com

Miracle on 34th Street
Don't miss this American Classic coming to the Clayton Center.
You will fall in love with Natalie Wood and you too will believe!

December 10 at 7:00 PM $7
December 11 at 2:00 PM $5

James White's Fort, 205 E. Hill Ave, Knoxville, TN 37915. Hours: Monday-Saturday, 9:30AM-5PM (April – December, excluding home football Saturdays); Monday-Friday, 10AM-4PM (January - March). For information: 865-525-6514, www.jameswhitefort.org

The three-time Grammy Award winning artist Delbert McClinton has not changed his musical formula, but he’s subtly enhanced the flavors on his thirteenth studio album Acquired Taste. The reflective lyrics provide one of the wisest and most introspective albums of the Texas roots music legend’s musical career. The new record, available August 18th from New West Records, was produced by Grammy Award winning producer Don Was (Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Bonnie Raitt).

Bijou Theatre, 803 S. Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37902. For information: 865-522-0832, www.knoxbijou.com. For tickets: 865-684-1200, 865-656-4444, www.knoxvilletickets.com

Grandkids Growing: Ginger Bread Decorating
Grandparent/ Grandchild program
The University of Tennessee Gardens

Saturday, December 10, 2-4p.m.

Let’s make a cookie from a root?! Learn how a little root can pack so many flavors into our favorite holiday cookies. See how other plants are also used in the foods we eat. Enjoy a ginger bread cookie to eat and decorate one to take home and hang on your tree.

$10/member, $14/non-member

Preregistration is required for all
classes. Please contact Derrick
Stowell , educational coordinator,
at 974-7151, or email derrick.
stowell@yahoo.com to register

Cookies and apple cider will warm the day at the East Tennessee Historical Society's Holiday Open House. Activities include live musical performances by a barber shop quartet, quilting and needlework demonstrations, ornament and craft making for the kids, cookies and hot cider, and Christmas stories from the Civil War. In addition, visitors are invited to browse the Museum Store for a great selection of traditional gifts, history books, and children's items.

Visitors are also invited to tour the new feature exhibition Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War, as well as the permanent exhibition Voices of the Land. All events are free and open to the public.

East Tennessee History Center | Saturday, December 10, from 11 am -3 pm

For those who enjoy natural holiday decorations, the annual Historic Ramsey House Wreath Making Workshop will be held Saturday, Dec. 10, at 12:00 noon.
Cost is $25 per person and includes materials. Register for the workshop by calling 865-546-0745 or email judy@ramsyhouse.org.

Let's make a cookie from a root! Learn how a little root can pack so many flavors into our favorite holiday cookies. See how other plants are also used in the foods we eat. Enjoy a ginger bread cookie to eat and decorate one to take home and hang on your tree.

Saturday, Dec. 10, 2:00 - 4:00 PM.
$10/member, $14/nonmember
Preregistration is required: Derrick Stowell at 974-7151 or email derrick.stowell@yahoo.com.
UT Gardens, 2431 Joe Johnson Drive, Knoxville

Dec 10, 10:00 AM
Preservation Network: Holiday Roundtable Discussion
Time Warp Tea Room, 1209 N. Central

Dec 10, 12:00 -7:00 PM
Architectural Salvage Sale / Summer Supper Cookbook Sale
Market Square Holiday Market, downtown Knoxville

Dec 10, 4:00 - 6:00 PM
Summer Supper Cookbook Sale
Bliss Home, 7240 Kingston Pike

An afternoon stroll in search of hermit thrushes, winter wrens, sapsuckers and other birds only here in the winter time. Free for Ijams member, $5 non-members. Meet at Visitor Center. Educator: Stephen Lyn Bales. Please call (865) 577-4717, ext. 110 to register.

Ijams Nature Center, 2915 Island Home Ave, Knoxville, TN 37920. Hours: Grounds and trails open during daylight hours. Call for Visitor Center hours. Information: 865-577-4717, www.ijams.org