Town of Unicoi

UNICOI - It’s strawberry time in Unicoi! And time once again for the annual Wayne Scott Strawberry Festival! Named in honor of the late Wayne Scott, founder of Scott’s Strawberries, this lively festival gathering celebrates the simple life with good-natured family fun, beautiful arts and crafts, toe-tapping, down-home bluegrass and bursting baskets full of ripe, red, juicy Scott’s strawberries to sweeten up the fun.

at Farmhouse Gallery & Gardens in Unicoi. The 4th weekend in April heralds the popular Fiddlers and Fiddleheads Festival at Johnny and Pat Lynch’s Farmhouse Gallery & Gardens. Now in its 15th year, this down-home music festival always provides a spectacular venue for a remarkable slate of bluegrass talent from all over East Tennessee and beyond, such as Adam Larkey & Mountain Time, The Ball Sisters, the Red Barn Band, the Pleasant Beach Church Quartet, Headed Home, Tanner Honeycutt, the Spinner Family, The Old Timers, Carson Peters and the Rock House String Band, and Pleasant Hill.

The Town of Unicoi will present its first Christmas Parade on Nov. 27 beginning at 2 p.m.

Joining Santa Claus and serving as the parade’s grand marshal will be actor David Browning, known as “The Mayberry Deputy” for his homage to Don Knotts, the original Deputy Barney Fife from “The Andy Griffith Show.”

In addition to Browning, the parade will also feature the Unicoi County High School Marching Band and ROTC, Jericho Temple Shriners, Rolling Thunder veterans’ organization, local churches, vintage automobiles, horses, Smokey Bear and Santa Claus.

at Bogart-Bowman Cabin in Unicoi. 2009 marked the inaugural year for the Town of Unicoi’s Heritage Celebration, set at the site of the historic Bogart-Bowman log cabin. The newly restored, circa-1790s log cabin museum and adjacent 3-acre public park is the setting for a daylong assemblage of craftspeople who demonstrate old-time heritage skills such as quilting, spinning, the flax process, tatting, soap making, blacksmithing, and cooking over an open fire.