Monteagle Market craft show this weekend

Looking for an easy day- trip with a scenic drive to an arts and crafts show? The Monteagle Mountain Market Arts and Crafts show fits the bill.

The 59th annual arts and crafts show is this weekend in Hannah Pickett Park, 16 Dixie Lee Ave. behind the Monteagle, Tennessee, City Hall.

About an hour’s drive up I-24 from Chattanooga, visitors will find more than 90 craftsmen showing their work on Saturday and Sunday, July 28- 29, says John Payne of the sponsoring South Cumberland Chamber of Commerce.

This show will include f ine art, stained glass, pottery, fine and primitive furniture, birdhouses, paintings in a variety of media, quilts, woodcraft, toys, jewelry, metalwork, glass and a variety of textiles. In addition, there will be artists demonstrating blacksmithing, charcoal and graphite drawing and chainsaw carving.

All the expected festival concessions will be sold, as well as some surprises such as homemade banana pudding and turkey legs. Door prizes will be given away every hour; recipients must be present to win.

Since the setting is a park, children can play on the park’s playground and there will be face painters on hand as well.

Before heading back down Monteagle Mountain, you might want to stop for dinner at one of the nearby restaurants on Main Street: Jim Oli- ver’s Smoke House, High Point Restaurant, Papa Ron’s Italian Steakhouse or Mountain Goat Cafe. Other restaurants in the Sewanee/Monteagle area include Pearl’s Fine Dining, 135 Cafe and Up In Smoke BBQ Cafe.

FACEBOOK. COM About 90 craftsmen will display their work on Saturday and Sunday at the 59th annual Monteagle Mountain Market.