A number of events are scheduled for Scott County over the next month. Here’s the run-down:
Friday, Sept. 4-Sunday, Sept. 6: Yamaha presents the Side-by-Side & ATV Round-up at Brimstone Recreation. The staging area will be Nathanial Byrge Bridge on River Road, with most activities taking place at the Half-Cabin event area on the mountain. Guided rides will be given all day Friday, with events all day Saturday and a four-hour endurance race on Sunday. Highlighting the weekend will be a concert at 7 p.m. Saturday, featuring country music legend John Anderson.
Friday, Sept. 11: Sierra Hull will be presented in concert at the Scott County Airport in advance of the annual Wings Over Big South Fork.
Saturday, Sept. 12: The largest air show in the region, Wings Over Big South Fork, will take place at Scott County Airport. If you’ve never attended this air show, you owe it to yourself to make it out this year. It’s pretty spectacular.
Saturday, Sept. 19: The 26th annual Haunting in the Hills storytelling festival will be held at the Big South Fork NRRA’s Bandy Creek Visitors Center. The all-day event concludes with the telling of ghost stories around the campfire.
Saturday, Sept. 26: The annual Scott County Heritage Festival will be held at the Museum of Scott County and the U.S.S. Tennessee Museum on the campus of Scott High School. This has turned into a spectacular festival over the last few years, featuring everything from rifle making to lye soap making to a sorghum stir-off . . . it’s a throw-back to the old days and the way our ancestors used to live in the Cumberland Mountains. Plus, it’s an opportunity to visit perhaps the most unique museums in the nation. The Museum of Scott County is a student-built and operated museum featuring local history and artifacts, and the U.S.S. Tennessee Museum is the official museum of the U.S.S. Tennessee, featuring the battleship that survived Pearl Harbor.
Saturday, Oct. 5: The Boys & Girls Club of Scott County will hold its annual Hall of Fame induction dinner and ceremony. This year’s keynote speaker is former University of Tennessee football coach Phil Fulmer.