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Your guide to event-related travel in the Southeast

GEORGIA Watkinsville — Georgia Pottery Invitational, through Sept. 13, features food, live jazz, art exhibits and sales, workshops, demonstration and lectures. www.ocaf.com.

Lookout Mountain — Rock City’s Summer Music Weekends, Sept. 4, features food, walking tours, birds of prey shows and bluegrass and country music. www.seerockcity.com/summermusic.

Jekyll Island — Shrimp & Grits Festival, Sept. 15-17, features food, arts and crafts, cooking competitions and live music. www.jekyllisland.com/shrimpgrits.

Flintstone — Blowing Springs Farm, Sept. 29-Oct. 29, features the Enchanted Maize, cow train rides, petting zoo and more. www. blowingspringsfarmc.com.

Rome — Wings Over North Georgia Air Show, Oct. 21-22, features military and civilian aviation performances, meet-and-greets with pilots, children’s activities and more. www.wingsovernorthgeorgia.com. FLORIDA Panama City Beach — Schooners Lobster Festival & Tournament, Sept. 11-17, features large, freshly caught lobsters, a sandsculpting contest, diving and a feast. www.schooners.com/ events/lobsterfestival.htm.

Pensacola — Seafood Festival, Sept. 29-Oct. 1, features live music, arts and crafts vendors, food and more. www.fiestaoffiveflags.org.

Port St. Joe — Scallop and Music Festival, Oct. 6-7, features scallops, other food, arts and crafts, children’s activities and live music. www.scallopfestfl.org.

Gainesville — Downtown Festival & Art Show, Nov. 11-12, features 250 artists, live music, food and children’s activities. www.gvlculturalaffairs.org. ALABAMA Eva — Frontier Days, Sept. 23-30, features car and tractor shows, craft shows, music, contests, food and games. www.evafrontierdays.weebly.com. Athens — Grease Festival, Sept. 29-30, features fried foods, competitions, music and more. www. athensgreasefestival.com. KENTUCKY

Bowling Green — Ice Cream and a Moovie, every other weekend through Sept. 16, features homemade ice cream, family friendly movies and self-guided tours of the dairy barn. www.chaneysdairybarn.com.

Bardstown — Kentucky Bourbon Festival, Sept. 11-17, features live music, dance, cigars, bourbon tastings and a gala. www.kybourbonfestival.com.

Louisville — Bourbon & Beyond Festival, Sept. 23-24, features concerts, Kentucky bourbons and food creations from top chefs. www.bourbonandbeyond.com. LOUISIANA Morgan City — Louisiana Shrimp and Petroleum Festival, Aug. 31Sept. 4, features food, live music, traditional events and children’s activities. www.shrimpandpetroleum.org. MISSISSIPPI Pascagoula — Mississippi Gulf Coast Blues & Heritage Festival, Sept. 9, features, live music, food and cultural exhibits. www. msgulfcoastbluesfest.com. NORTH CAROLINA

Ocean Isle Beach — Purple Feet Festival, Sept. 9, features wine stomping, live entertainment, food, arts and crafts and more. www.silvercoastwinery.com.

Clayton — Harvest & Music Fest, Sept. 13-17, features a barbecue cook-off, craft vendors, art demonstrations, food trucks, a car show, carnival rides and more. www.claytonchamber.com/ pages/harvest-festival.

Winston Salem — Texas Pete Culinary Arts Festival, Sept. 16-17, features regional and national chefs, live music and more. www. visitwinstonsalem.com.

Mount Airy — Mayberry Days, Sept. 21-24, features concerts, games, movies, a parade, and meet-and-greets with actors from “The Andy Griffith Show.” www.mayberrydays.org.

Southport — Wooden Boat Show, Sept. 30, features boat construction, meet-and-greets with boat owners and makers, arts and crafts and contests. www.southportwoodenboatshow.com. SOUTH CAROLINA Charleston — Charleston to Charleston Literary Festival, Nov. 3-5, features a series of programs supporting all things literary, scholarly and creative with authors readers and thinkers from around the world. www. charlestontocharleston.com. TENNESSEE Caryville — Louie Bluie Music and Arts Festival, Sept. 30, features live music, juried art and quilt show, food and children’s activities. www.louiebluie.org.

Centerville — National Banana Pudding Festival, Oct. 7-8, features food, music, puppets, storytelling, live entertainment, rides, arts and crafts and a pudding cook-off. www.bananapuddingfest.org. VIRGINIA

Alexandria — “Lives Bound Together: Slavery at George Washington’s Mount Vernon” exhibit at the Donald W. Reynolds Museum, through Sept. 30, 2018, features artwork, furnishings, archaeological discoveries, documents and interactive displays. www.mountvernon.org.

Virginia Beach — FunkFest Beach Party, Aug. 25-26, features funk music, food, vendors and dance contests. www.beachstreetusa. com.