Experience the Holiday Season with Christmas in Olde Jonesborough

November 14, 2024
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The Town of Jonesborough presents Christmas in Olde Jonesborough, a month full of holiday cheer for you to enjoy with family and friends! Each Saturday features free activities for the whole family and a different theme each weekend, including Whoville Christmas, Doggone Christmas and Santa’s Christmas Village taking place from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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Putting It Together, Part Six – What It Takes to Make a Radio Play

October 16, 2024
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Putting It Together, Part Six – What It Takes to Make a Radio Play

October’s edition of the StoryTown Radio Show will be a little different. Usually, the show is made up of multiple stories from real people, many of whom lived right here in Northeast Tennessee. This month, we’re stepping back in time, to the turn of the 20th century for “Legs in a Barrel” Murder Mystery. I originally wrote this piece of historical theatre for the Heritage Alliance. It is based on the very true and very mysterious deaths of Andrew Slagle and John Spencer.

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Putting It Together, Part Five – What It Takes to Make a Radio Play

October 7, 2024
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Putting It Together, Part Five – What It Takes to Make a Radio Play

People often ask where we get our ideas for themes for the Radio Show. Some of the themes come from our annual potluck where the StoryTown Players, writers, and Story Brigade members gather to plan the upcoming season. In fact, this month’s theme of “Workaday World” came from our planning meeting this past January. Other themes are tied to specific months, like Black History Month and Women’s History Month. And some themes are tied to places. In 2025, we’ll be doing a special edition sharing memories of the Jackson Theatre in the Jackson Theatre.

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Jonesborough’s Smallest Art Gallery: September Edition

October 7, 2024
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Jonesborough has many unique places to explore and discover, one of those places is quite small. Tucked away in the green space beside Mill Spring Makers Market is Jonesborough’s Smallest Art Gallery. Located inside a small outdoor gallery is a public art project featuring a different local artist each month.
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Jonesborough’s Smallest Art Gallery

August 23, 2024
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Jonesborough has many unique places to explore and discover, one of those places is quite small. Tucked away in the green space beside Mill Spring Makers Market is Jonesborough's Smallest Art Gallery. Located inside a small outdoor gallery is a public art project featuring a different local artist each month.
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Music on the Square Returns!

April 23, 2024
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Music on the Square has always been about music and the Jonesborough community. For over 20 years, Music on the Square has provided free, live music at its best with the townscape of downtown Jonesborough as the setting.
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Experience Nostalgia in Jonesborough

March 13, 2024
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Are you longing for a taste of nostalgia? Look no further than Jonesborough! Jonesborough’s FreeBlockbuster at the Jonesborough Visitors Center: Remember the thrill of browsing through rows of VHS tapes at your local Blockbuster? Experience that same excitement at Jonesborough's FreeBlockbuster, nestled outside the Visitors Center.
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Putting It Together – What It Takes to Make a Radio Play

March 13, 2024
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Part One – The Script: Every month for the StoryTown Radio Show, “We gather all your stories in a brand new play, Then retell it the Jonesborough way.” That’s what the StoryTown theme song by Heather McCluskey says anyway. But how do we do that? Right now, I’m hard at work on the script for “I Will Not be Moved: Stories of Perseverance.”
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Welcome back to StoryTown!

February 12, 2024
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The StoryTown Radio Show returns to the stage and airwaves on Monday, February 26th at 7:00 pm. The 13th season kicks off with “Love Leads the Way,” a brand-new show featuring new stories about romance and Black history from right here in Northeast Tennessee.
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