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when thousands come together Tennessee Fall Homecoming, September through January,
to drink beer, dance, sing, and an Appalachian-themed crafts and basketball from winter
celebrate real or imagined and culture festival that takes through mid-spring.
Irishness. March and April are place annually at the Museum In other sports, the Kentucky
also ideal months for enjoying of Appalachia. At the end of the Derby in early May draws
house-and-garden tours and year, an old-fashioned Christmas hundreds of thousands of
the blossoms of the Southeast’s is re-created at the living-history horse-racing fans from all over
many fruit trees, celebrated in village of Old Salem, outside the world. Golf enthusiasts
events like the Cherry Blossom Winston-Salem in North Carolina. flock to Augusta, Georgia to
Festival of Macon, Georgia, watch the Masters tournament
where visitors can see more in April. NASCAR stock car races
than 200,000 trees that line Sports & Outdoor are the region’s most popular
Activities
the city streets. attractions, drawing more
Throughout May, one of the The cities of the Southeast than 200,000 people to races
country’s largest music and arts host a wide array of professional at Atlanta, Bristol, Concord,
festivals takes place in historic and amateur sports teams, and Rockingham, and Darlington.
Charleston, South Carolina, as there are many minor league Numerous state parks provide
part of the Spoleto Festival USA. teams in smaller cities. Especially opportunities for camping,
Summer brings a deluge of in basketball and football, boating, fishing, and hiking.
outdoor events. Bands, fireworks, hundreds of high-quality and The coastal states of the
and street festivals are the norm passionately supported sports South east are known to offer
for community celebrations of teams are fielded by public and numerous opportunities for
the July 4 Independence Day private colleges and universities. beach activities.
holiday. One of the largest Atlanta has major league teams
fireworks displays in the US is in all four main American
staged at Stone Mountain, spectator sports (baseball, foot- Entertainment
outside Atlanta. Numerous ball, hockey, and basketball), The birthplace of the blues, rock
county and state fairs crop up but professional NFL football is ’n’ roll, and country-and-western
around this time, as do music also played in Charlotte, North music, the Southeast is a great
festivals such as Old Time Carolina, and Nashville, Tennessee. place to enjoy live music.
Fiddlers’ Jamboree in At the minor league level, Hundreds of events take place
Smithville, Tennessee. The end Memphis has an enormous all over the region almost every
of summer brings Elvis Week downtown stadium for their night. Besides the various
in Memphis, Tennessee, Class AAA baseball team, the nightclubs hosting talented
celebrating the life and times of Redbirds; Nashville, Charlotte, musicians, the major entertain-
Elvis Presley with a week-long and Louisville also have high- ment venues of the region
festival around the anniversary quality Class AAA baseball teams. include the legendary Grand
of his death on August 16. Baseball season runs from April Old Opry in Nashville and B.B.
A highlight of autumn is the to September, football from King’s Blues Club in Memphis.
DIRECTORY
Tourist Travel North Carolina NASCAR
Information 1615 Mail Service ∑ nascar.com
Amtrak Center, Raleigh.
Georgia Tel (800) 872-7245. Tel (919) 733-4181. Atlanta Falcons
Tel (800) 847-4842. ∑ amtrak.com ∑ ncsparks.com Tel (404) 223-8000.
∑ exploregeorgia.org ∑ atlantafalcons.com
Greyhound South Carolina
Kentucky Tel (800) 231-2222. 1205 Pendleton St, Carolina Panthers
Tel (800) 225-8747. Columbia. Tel (704) 358-7000.
∑ kentucky Parks & Outdoor Tel (803) 734-0156. ∑ panthers.com
tourism.com Information ∑ southcarolina Tennessee Titans
parks.com Tel (615) 565-4000.
North Carolina Georgia ∑ titansonline.com
Tel (800) 847-4862. 205 SE Butler St, Tennessee
∑ visitnc.com Atlanta. 401 Church St, Entertainment
Nashville.
South Carolina Tel (800) 864-7275. Tel (615) 532-0001, B.B. King’s Blues Club
Tel (800) 872-3505. ∑ gastateparks.org (800) 421-6683. 143 Beale St,
∑ discoversouth Kentucky ∑ tnstateparks.com Memphis, Tennessee.
carolina.com Tel (901) 524-5464.
2200 Capital Plaza Kentucky
Tennessee Tower, Frankfort. Derby Grand Old Opry
Tel (800) 462-8366. Tel (800) 255-7275. Tel (800) 928-3378. Nashville, Tennessee.
∑ tnvacation.com ∑ parks.ky.gov ∑ kdf.org Tel (615) 889-3060.

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