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Living Traditions, a series of Community events around Athens County celebrating traditional folkways

10/09/2026

🍎 Tomorrow is the day! What can you learn or discover at Living Traditions Athens County?

🤎💚💛You can learn about food preservation, discover your family history, hear Appalachian stories, pick up some car maintenance tips, explore mending and upcycling, and see how traditions are kept alive here in Southeast Ohio.

You can also visit the Tablertown People of Color Museum, enjoy a community meal, listen to Hutchison’s Melody Makers, and celebrate years of making apple butter over an open fire!💛💚🤎

📍 Federal Valley Resource Center in Stewart, Ohio
🗓️ Saturday, October 10
⏰ Noon to 6 PM

Bring a friend and spend Saturday with us! ❤️

🫶This project is made possible by Mid Atlantic Folk and Traditional Arts’ Central Appalachia Living Traditions program.🫶

10/08/2026

We've got a slight change to the schedule! Soulshine Earth and Sundown Garage are swapping places.

🧡💛💚Tours of the Tablertown People of Color Museum will take place at 12:00pm and 2:00pm. Please arrive 15 minutes early and meet on the front entrance steps of FVRC to secure your spot - tours are limited to 10 people each.

📍 Federal Valley Resource Center
8225 OH-329, Stewart, OH 45778
🗓️October 10th
🕰️noon to 6 PM

Can't wait to see you all there!

🫶This project is made possible by Mid Atlantic Folk and Traditional Arts Central Appalachia Living Traditions program. 🫶

10/07/2026

🤎💚💛You might be wondering.... what is a living tradition?💛💚🤎

A living tradition is a skill or knowledge that you don’t learn in school. It’s passed down at the kitchen table🍳, in the garden 🌱, while you're out hunting 🦌, or out in the barn 🐄. These traditions connect us to the past while shaping our everyday lives. 🫶

🎉Join us at the Federal Valley Resource Center in Stewart, Ohio on SATURDAY OCTOBER 10th for a free, family-friendly event celebrating the living traditions of Southeast Ohio! 🧑‍🤝‍🧑

You’ll get to meet some talented local makers, growers, and musicians who help keep these traditions alive.

🍎We’ll have apple butter being made over an open fire,📖 storytelling with Dan Xin Huang,🚘 and the people from Sundown Garage will show us some of the basics of car maintenance.🫙 Penny Bingman will teach us about food preservation.🪡 Stephani Katterhenrich will demonstrate upcycling and mending techniques.📜 Dr. Amelia Adams will return to teach us about genealogy. 🍄Soulshine Earth is going to teach us about mushroom cultivation.
❤️‍🔥Tours of the Tablertown People of Color Museum will be running throughout the day, and we’ll wrap things up with a community meal and music from Willa Cable and Hutchison’s Melody Makers.🎻

These aren’t just “old ways.” They’re still our ways.💪💧

🫶This project is made possible by Mid Atlantic Folk and Traditional Arts Central Appalachia Living Traditions program.🫶

10/06/2026

🫶We're less than a week away from LIVING TRADITIONS ATHENS COUNTY! 🫶
❤️‍🔥While you’re marking your calendar, don’t forget about our upcoming Beginning Blacksmithing with Mike Hoops Workshop with Michael Nazario Hoops of Coal Township Forge on October 24 at Federal Valley Resource Center.

🔥Learn the fundamentals of Blacksmithing by making a J Hook with Mike Hoop of Coal Township Forge.

🔨Students will learn about hand forging techniques such as bending, twisting and drawing out steel and the operation of a propane forge.

❤️‍🔥Registration is required as workshop space is limited to ensure high quality instruction. This workshop is offered on the sliding scale, due upon registration via the link below. No one will be turned away due to lack of funds and folks may request scholarships by emailing [email protected]

Beginning Blacksmithing with Mike Hoops
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Click on the "TICKETS" section in the event link above!

🗓️SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24TH
🕰️12PM-4PM
📍Federal Valley Resource Center
8225 STATE ROUTE OH-329, Stewart, OH 45778

🤎💚💛This project is made possible by Mid Atlantic Folk and Traditional Arts’ Central Appalachia Living Traditions program.💛💚🤎

10/03/2026

🪡We're pleased to announce that Stephanie Katterhenrich will be joining us at LIVING TRADITIONS ATHENS COUNTY. She's going to show us how simple sewing techniques can repair, strengthen, and transform everyday items! This is an all levels-friendly presentation that explores practical hand-sewn and machine-sewn repairs for clothing, household textiles, and accessories.

🧵You'll learn the difference between repairing, mending, and upcycling while exploring useful techniques such as patching, darning, button replacement, seam repair, and basic machine stitching. We’ll also explore the beauty and history of Sashiko and Boro, demonstrating how visible stitching, layered patches, and reclaimed fabrics can turn damage into a creative design feature.

🪢The presentation will conclude with upcycling ideas that give worn or unwanted textiles a new purpose-from transforming old clothing into useful items to incorporating fabric scraps into creative projects.

🧶Whether you’re new to sewing or looking to expand your skills, you’ll leave with practical ideas, inspiration, and a fresh perspective: repair it, reinforce it, and reimagine it!

📍 Federal Valley Resource Center
8225 OH-329, Stewart, OH 45778
🗓️October 10th
🕰️noon to 6 PM

Stephanie Katterhenrich (Horvath) is a SE Ohio-based industrial sewist, mender, and lifelong creative whose love of sewing began in childhood.

As a child, Stephanie remembers watching her mother sew and wishing to learn more. Her middle-school sewing class sparked a lasting love. Through high school she continued her love by hand sewing, creating and altering clothing. Sewing remained a quiet dream through many years and many creative pursuits. A dream Stephanie never let go.

Working at Joann Fabrics inspired Stephanie to return to sewing. She obtained her first sewing machine and immersed herself in learning through books, YouTube, experimentation, and practice. She found that she couldn't get enough.

Today, Stephanie works as an industrial sewist. Recently she became the Contract Mender and Sewist for a grant funded recycling project. She is also pursuing a business of her own, Katt--Sewing Possibilities. Her business blends her passion for creative repair, visible mending, Sashiko, Boro-inspired techniques, and upcycling.

Don't forget to mark your calendars! We've got a lot to show you throughout the day!

🫶This project is made possible by Mid Atlantic Folk and Traditional Arts Central Appalachia Living Traditions program. 🫶

10/02/2026

🤎💚💛How about a little more music?💛💚🤎

🎻Willa Cable will be joining us at LIVING TRADITIONS ATHENS COUNTY!🎻

🎶Willa Cable has been playing fiddle for over seven years now. She began playing when she was seven years old. Before her first lessons, she remembers dancing to her father’s music in the evenings and singing with family and friends on holidays and at small jams. Willa loves singing meaningful lyrics and bringing joy through music.😀

Willa’s performance will be accompanied by her father (and one of our favorite people!), Curt Cable.🧹

🎉Can't wait to see y'all at LIVING TRADITIONS ATHENS COUNTY! 🎉

📍 Federal Valley Resource Center
8225 OH-329, Stewart, OH 45778
🗓️October 10th
🕰️noon to 6 PM

🫶This project is made possible by Mid Atlantic Folk and Traditional Arts Central Appalachia Living Traditions program. 🫶

10/01/2026

We are honored that the Tablertown People of Color Museum will host guided tours of the museum, with shuttles transporting guests directly between FVRC and the museum.

LIVING TRADITIONS ATHENS COUNTY

📍 Federal Valley Resource Center
8225 OH-329, Stewart, OH 45778
🗓️October 10th
🕰️noon to 6 PM

From Plantations to Coal Mines-A guided tour through The Tablertown People of Color Museum
Join David Butcher (Executive Director), Bill Elasky (Board President), Roxanne Groff (Board Treasurer), and Leslie Brooks (Vista Worker) for “From Plantations to Coal Mines;” a guided tour of the Tablertown People of Color Museum.
🏛️ About the Museum
The Tablertown People of Color Museum is a nonprofit social enterprise that preserves cultural artifacts and tells the story of Appalachian diversity. The Executive Director, David Butcher, founded the museum as a semblance of honor for his family’s heritage that was passed down through oral tradition.

The museum chronicles the history of Tablertown from its time as an early settlement to the present day, to ensure descendants are represented accurately, cultural stereotypes are dismantled, and pride in family lineage is fostered.

Museum tours include exhibits reflecting:
🔹Tablertown's early coal mining, iron ore, and railroad industries
🔹Military memorabilia honoring local veterans serving in every American war
🔹The Tabler lineage, showcased through a diverse family tree and an array of heirlooms from Virginia plantations through today
🔹A collection of Native American arrowheads determined by archeologists to be 10,000–15,000 years old

This project is made possible by Mid Atlantic Folk and Traditional Arts Central Appalachia Living Traditions program.

09/29/2026

🫙Need a little help stretching your food budget? Penny Bingman is going to teach us some food preservation techniques at LIVING TRADITIONS ATHENS COUNTY that can help us make the most of what we grow and buy. 🍅

🥔Generationally from the region, Penny Bingman is a Trimble High School Graduate who grew up with sustenance food traditions as part of everyday life in her family's home. Picking up potatoes as she followed her grandpa plowing with the tractor or waking up to immediately string green beans on the porch were daily occurrences in her home as a child. Penny learned by helping her parents and grandparents, and she has kept food traditions alive by the act of doing with her children and community members. Knowing that she can provide for herself by foraging or gardening gives her a sense of security. Experiencing her children and grandchildren carrying on these age-old skills assures her that these older ways of living will not be forgotten.🫛

🍊Penny is happy to share these valuable skills with more of her community at LIVING TRADITIONS ATHENS COUNTY

📍 Federal Valley Resource Center
8225 OH-329, Stewart, OH 45778
🗓️October 10th
🕰️noon to 6 PM
🌿This project is made possible by Mid Atlantic Folk and Traditional Arts’ Central Appalachia Living Traditions program.

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