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5 - International Festival

PHOTOS COURTESY GO FEST/ROANOKE OUTSIDE FOUNDATION

October 18-20
GO OUTSIDE FESTIVAL in
Roanoke, Virginia, combines
camping, music and races
with great displays and food.
(roanokegofest.com).

Carolina, with a parade of antique
automobiles (oldtimeyfallfestival.
com). You can also find the Autumn
Harvest Festival and West
Virginia RoadKill Cook-off

prudent development and conservation
at Elkins, West Virginia (forestfestival.
com).

Frankford Autumn Festival

OCTOBER

at Marlinton, West Virginia (800336-7009). Also in West Virginia:

kicks off fall with arts, crafts, music and
a parade (greenbrierwv.com). Big
Red Apple Festival comes to
Cornelia, Georgia (706-778-8585).
You can also bolt into the bowl of
Garden Mountain - and explore an
isolated mountain valley - at the

Burke's Garden Fall Festival,

finding music, crafts and history tours
(burkesgardenfallfestival.com).

28-29 - Revolutionary

War Days highlights history
in Morganton, North Carolina
(historicburke.org). In Virginia,

Grayson Highlands Fall
Festival offers crafts, old-time

music and a pony auction at Grayson
Highlands State Park, just off U.S. 58 in
southwest Virginia (276-579-7092).
- Celebrate Latino culture with the
HoLa Festival in downtown
Knoxville, Tennessee (holahoralatina.
org).

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28-Oct. 6

- Mountain
State Forest Festival honors

1-30 - Ober Gatlinburg's
Oktoberfest features

Bavarian-style food, bier garten, music
and live entertainment (865-436-5423)
in Tennessee's Great Smoky Mountains.
You can also find Rocktoberfest
at Rock City on Lookout Mountain in
Georgia on Saturdays and Sundays, Oct.
5-27, with German dancing, food and
visits from the Fall Fairy (seerockcity.
com).

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- In northeast Tennessee,
enter Erwin for its Unicoi County
Apple Festival (unicoicounty.
org). Nearby, check out the big circus
tents of the National Storytelling
Festival in Jonesborough,
Tennessee, running through Oct. 6, with
unforgettable outdoor programs by
various voices, late-night performances
for adults and ghost story concerts
(storytellingcenter.net). Over in
Kentucky, come taste the Kentucky
Apple Festival in Paintsville
(kyapplefest.org).

comes to Spartanburg, South Carolina
(cityofspartanburg.org), while the
Woodbooger Festival heads
to Norton, Virginia, in celebration of
a Bigfoot-style creature that allegedly
roams Flag Rock (woodboogerfest.
com). Also in Virginia: Mountain
Magic in Fall moves into Buchanan
with arts and crafts (540-254-1212);
Shenandoah Autumnfest at
Woodstock features a classic car cruisein (shenandoahcountychamber.com);
and Dayton Days Autumn
Celebration packs variety at Dayton
(daytonva.us). Over in West Virginia,
the Dark Carnival begins at the
legendary Lake Shawnee Abandoned
Amusement Park near Bluefield
(304-921-1580). Kentucky's Harlan
Haunt Fest is a horror festival held
at the Harlan Center (harlanhauntfest.
com). Down in Georgia, the Foxfire
Mountaineer Festival moves
into the Rabun County Civic Center at
Clayton with heritage demonstrations
and folk art (foxfire.org).

9-12

- Jenny Wiley
Festival celebrates the heritage of

frontier East Kentucky with live music, a
carnival and turtle races at Prestonsburg
(jwfestival.com).

10-12

- High Country Quilt
Show blankets Maggie Valley,
North Carolina, with colorful designs
(visitncsmokies.com).

10-13

- Enjoy a parade, bake
contest and band competition at the

West Virginia Black Walnut
Festival in Spencer (304-927-5616).

10-27

- Gatlinburg
Craftsmen Fair comes to Tennessee
(craftsmenfair.com).

11-13

- In South Carolina, Fall
for Greenville features restaurants

offering taste treats plus more than 75
musical acts (fallforgreenville.net). In
North Carolina, Autumn Leaves
Festival brings bluegrass to Mount
Airy (autumnleavesfestival.com).

http://www.cityofspartanburg.org http://www.shenandoahcountychamber.com http://www.daytonva.us http://www.roanokegofest.com http://www.foxfire.org http://www.greenbrierwv.com http://www.jwfestival.com http://www.visitncsmokies.com http://www.burkesgardenfallfestival.com http://www.historicburke.org http://www.craftsmenfair.com http://www.fallforgreenville.net http://www.storytellingcenter.net http://www.autumnleavesfestival.com http://www.kyapplefest.org http://www.BLUERIDGECOUNTRY.COM

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