| Downtown Maryville Last Friday Art Walk The Last Friday Art Walk is a recurring event to celebrate the arts on the last Friday of every month in Downtown Maryville. What's unique about it is that it's not just galleries participating. It's also businesses like bars, retail stores, restaurants, theaters, and coffee shops. Each participating business hosts a "featured artist," this includes all disciplines of art; visual artists, performance artists, actors, writers, dancers, musicians, etc. New artists and new art are required each month, which gives the community a new experience each time they come. Foothills Land Conservancy The Foothills Land Conservancy is a non-profit organization whose purpose and mission are the protection and preservation of conservation values of natural and productive landscapes in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains and their surroundings. It does so through the acquisition of interests in real property whose values include, but may not be limited to, agricultural productivity, ecological integrity, historic character, or managed public access by gift, purchase, or other lawful means. Save Chilhowee Mountain Save Chilhowee Mountain, Inc., is a not-for-profit organization that grew, and is still growing, out of a spontaneous protest that erupted when the public first got word of a developer's plan to build an 80 unit subdivision on the east side of Chilhowee Mountain, the side that faces the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, in Blount County, Tennessee. The sub-division is being carved into a steep mountainside in the Abrams Creek Watershed --- the only watershed containing private property draining directly into the National Park. Abrams Creek, the home of several endangered species is vulnerable, and the scars of bulldozing dozens of acres of mountainside are scars visible from the Foothills Parkway and the center of the National Park. Our mission is to preserve the natural habitat, beauty, and diversity of the Chilhowee Mountain area for the enjoyment of all. Citizens Against Pellissippi Parkway Extension The mission of Citizens Against the Pellissippi Parkway Extension (CAPPE) is to educate the public about issues regarding and the impacts of the Pellissippi Parkway Extension. CAPPE is a non-profit citizens group opposed to the Pellissippi Parkway Extension. CAPPE supporters are Blount County residents and other concerned citizens who believe this interstate highway is not needed, wastes state resources, and will have negative impacts on the area along the route and on the quality of life in Blount County as a whole. Maryville Farmers' MarketThe mission of the Maryville Farmers' Market is to promote the sale of local farm products; to improve the freshness, taste, and nutritional value of produce available; to encourage more social contact between consumer and farmer; to educate the public as to the agricultural traditions of East Tennessee; and to celebrate and help preserve family farms. Little River Watershed Association The Little River Watershed Association is a non-profit organization with the mission to protect, preserve, and enhance the Little River and its tributaries through mobilizing public support, building public awareness and promoting best management practices. The key aims of the Association are to promote educational activities that benefit the river and the watershed; to focus attention on efforts to protect the river; to distribute current information to the community; and to assist citizens in taking positive action. The Raven Society |
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