Community Calendar

Flatwater Tales Storytelling Festival brings four acclaimed storytellers - Sheila Arnold, Elizabeth Ellis, Josh Goforth and Bil Lepp - to Oak Ridge for seven programs June 5-6. The festival offers two 35-minute "Tastes of the Tales" with one teller, one 1776 historic character presentation, and programs with three tellers at 7 p.m. June 5, and 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. June 6. The June 6 evening program will combine stories and music with the Oak Ridge Civic Music Association, celebrating America's 250 birthday at a different location, the Oak Ridge High School Performing Arts Center, 1450 Oak Ridge Turnpike. Bil Lepp will host a Homegrown Tellers Contest at 1:30 p.m. June 6, giving the audience a chance to vote on their favorite tellers.

On Saturday, June 6th, 2025, at 5:30pm join your friends and neighbors at the ‘Birthplace of Tennessee’ for our annual

Martinis at the Mansion garden party. We are opening the historic houses on our site and our gardens of the

Blount Mansion and Craighead-Jackson House for this special event.

There will be cocktails and wine served in the garden in addition to grazing tables.

Tickets are all inclusive! $100.00 per person

RSVP to info@blountmansion.org

Tickets at https://blount-mansion.square.site