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SUMMARY:Spring Market Days @ Kingsport Farmers Market
DESCRIPTION:Grab the family and come out for all day fun! \nMarket will be open Saturday and Sunday from 11-5 daily!\nVendors vary each day so come spend the weekend with us!\n•small businesses••food trucks••egg hunt for kids••kids activity station•+ so much more!\nIf interested in becoming a vendor\, please email shoppoppylous@gmail.com
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LOCATION:Kingsport Farmers Market\, 308 Clinchfield St\, Kingsport\, TN\, 37660\, United States
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SUMMARY:Kingsport Arts Festival
DESCRIPTION:Mark your calendars for our third annual Kingsport ARTS Festival!\nConnecting citizens to creative community–this festival is all about learning how things are made\, supporting our hardworking local artists and craftspeople\, and trying your hand at creating something yourself!\nThis event is free and family-friendly; check out the glassblowing booth\, tie-dye a Kingsport ARTS t-shirt\, free arts activities for both kids and adults\, and plenty more exciting things to be announced! Plus\, check out a wide range of arts vendors to explore all of the amazing things that are possible!\nWant to be a part of the festival as a volunteer\, demonstrator\, or performer? Contact linorehuss@kingsporttn.gov for more information.\n\nEvent takes place in the 100 block of Shelby Street
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SUMMARY:Books and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special reading and book sale of Had I a Dove: Appalachian Poets on the Helene Flood. Eleanor Hjemmet will sing her song from the anthology and play guitar. All proceeds from the anthology will benefit the Helene Disaster Relief Fund. \n\nDanita Dodson is the author of three poetry collections: Trailing the Azimuth (2021)\, The Medicine Woods (2022)\, and Between Gone and Everlasting (2024). Her poems are anchored in the landscapes of Northeast Tennessee and have appeared in Salvation South\, Women Speak Anthology\, Untelling\, and elsewhere. Dodson was a recipient of the Poetry Society of Tennessee’s 2024 Best of the Fest Prize. A native of the Clinch River watersheds of Hancock County\, Tennessee\, she loves to hike and explore the narratives of her local wilderness. Read more at www.danitadodson.com. \n\nDavid Winship is a retired public-school educator. A native of Bristol\, Tennessee\, he has returned to his homeplace to age on and age out. He raised his family in the Damascus\, Virginia community which was heavily impacted by Helene. He is director of the Sign of the George Letterpress at King University in Bristol. He actively supports heritage and music education of the Appalachian region. He has two daughters and six grandchildren. He prints a yearly chapbook of his poetry for family and friends. He has also written for the news media and has had dramatic works staged. He annually prints a collection of his poetry for family and friends. \n\nAnn Shurgin is a native of Elizabethton\, Tennessee. Her family descends from a long line of Southern Appalachian settlers. She graduated from East Tennessee State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in English and journalism and then moved to Houston\, Texas\, one year later\, where she worked in the oil industry for four years. She and her husband then bought a one-acre “ranchette” in the countryside northwest of the city\, where they raised their children and grew a garden year-round. Ann also worked as a journalist for local newspapers and then as a freelance writer and copy editor. She later moved to College Station\, where she worked as a communications specialist and manager for Texas A&M AgriLife. After retirement\, she moved back to Elizabethton\, to the house where she grew up. She is a member of the Southern Appalachian Writers Cooperative and the Appalachian Studies Association and is happy to be back in the mountains of East Tennessee\, where her story began and her heart never left. While the Whippoorwill Called is her first book of poetry. \n\nHilda Downer is the inaugural High Country Poet Laureate and author of four collections of poetry and forthcoming chapbook\, Seeds of Gems and Metals. Her second book\, Sky Under the Roof\, was a Nautilus Golden Poetry Winner in Books for a Better World. She edited the anthology\, Had I a Dove: Appalachian Poets on the Helene Flood released in September 2025 by Redhawk Publications with all proceeds going to the Helene Flood Relief Fund. Had I a Dove won the American Writing Award in the Poetry Anthology category. Retired from teaching English at Appalachian State University\, she has recently retired as a psychiatric nurse. She holds an MFA from Vermont College and is a long-term member of the Southern Appalachian Writers Cooperative\, the Appalachian Studies Association\, North Carolina Writers Network\, and the North Carolina Writers Conference. She grew up in Bandana of Mitchell County\, NC\, and lives in Sugar Grove\, NC.
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LOCATION:Kingsport Public Library\, 400 Broad St\, Kingsport\, TN\, 37660\, United States
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SUMMARY:Tri-Cities Community Prayer Breakfast
DESCRIPTION:Mark your calendars. May 18 \n\nThe Tri-Cities Community Prayer Breakfast is returning to MeadowView Conference Resort & Convention Center in Kingsport with a morning of prayer\, worship\, and an unforgettable story of faith.\n\nThis year’s speaker is Pastor Chad Roberts\, a Kingsport pastor who was blinded at 38 and hasn’t stopped preaching since. He’ll be joined by best-selling worship artist Charles Billingsley and the Covenant Worship Team.\n\nEvery ticket includes breakfast and a free copy of Pastor Chad’s new book\, Blind Faith: Seeing God Through Darkness.\nDoors open at 5:30 AM. Breakfast at 6:30. Event begins at 7.\n\nTickets are $30. https://tricitiesprayer.com/
URL:https://thisiskingsport.com/event/tri-cities-community-prayer-breakfast/
LOCATION:MeadowView Conference Resort & Convention Center\, 1901 Meadowview Pkwy\, Kingsport\, TN\, 37660\, United States
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SUMMARY:Public Works Day
DESCRIPTION:Public Works Day will be held during National Public Works Week (May 17-May 23) – a week-long celebration started by the American Public Works Association in 1960 to show the public the importance of public works in their daily lives. \nAll divisions within public works will be represented and employees will be on hand to demonstrate the equipment and answer questions from the public. \n 
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LOCATION:Kingsport Farmers Market\, 308 Clinchfield St\, Kingsport\, TN\, 37660\, United States
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