Tennessee
Locally Social Free Event Listings May 12-13
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — The 82nd Iroquois Steeplechase at Percy Warner Park Saturday will host a crowd of spectators eager to witness one of the featured events of the weekend in Middle Tennessee. However, there are plenty of other activities happening free of charge around Central Tennessee for you to enjoy from Friday, May 12 to Sunday, May 14.
5/12/23 (FRIDAY)
EVENT: OneGenAway 10th Anniversary Spring Breakfast
PLACE: The Factory at Franklin (230 Franklin Road, Franklin, TN)
TIME: 7 – 8:15 a.m.
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ABOUT: OneGenAway is celebrating 10 years of sharing hope, honor, and dignity through food as they continue toward the goal of wiping hunger off the face of America, starting in the southeastern U.S. Join us for our free annual Spring Breakfast event for a meal and an opportunity to learn more about our mission and work in Middle Tennessee.
EVENT: Queen City Road Race Health and Fitness Expo
PLACE: Wilma Rudolph Event Center (8 Champion’s Way, Clarksville, TN)
TIME: 4 – 7 p.m.
AGES: N/A
ABOUT: Join us at the Wilma Rudolph Event Center for a 2-day Health and Fitness Expo. The race weekend kicks off with the Health and Fitness Expo featuring vendors with the latest products and services in health, fitness and nutrition.
EVENT: Middle Tennessee Strawberry Festival – Concert and Fireworks
PLACE: Downtown Portland, Tennessee
TIME: 5 – 9 p.m.
AGES: ALL
ABOUT: Join us in Portland, TN for the 82nd Annual Middle TN Strawberry Festival!
5/13/23 (SATURDAY)
EVENT: Franklin Rodeo Parade
PLACE: Downtown Franklin Association (207 E Main Street, Franklin, TN)
TIME: 7 – 8 a.m.
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ABOUT: Enjoy a free parade to kick off the annual Franklin Rodeo, Franklin’s longest-running event since 1949!
EVENT: Queen City 5K/10K Road Race and fun run
PLACE: Liberty Park (1190 Cumberland Drive, Clarksville, TN)
TIME: 7 – 11 a.m.
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ABOUT: For more than 40 years, the Queen City Road Race has been the premier running event in Clarksville. The race will feature a 10K, 5K, and one-mile route. All three routes will begin and end at the Wilma Rudolph Event Center in Liberty Park. The one-mile route will take walkers and runners along the park’s pond, while the 5K route will feature multiple views of the Cumberland River and take participants through each corner of the park.
EVENT: Annual Iris Show of the Mid-state Iris Association
PLACE: Northminster Presbyterian Church (708 W Clark Blvd, Murfreesboro, TN)
TIME: Entries at 7 a.m. / Show open from 1:30 – 4 p.m.
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ABOUT: This show is open to all. Please contact us if you would like more information on how to enter an iris from your garden!
EVENT: Clarksville Downtown Market
PLACE: 1 Public Square, Clarksville, TN
TIME: 8 a.m. – Noon
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ABOUT: The Clarksville Downtown Market is a weekly open-air market featuring farmers and artisans who offer locally-grown fresh produce, food items, and handcrafted products.
EVENT: West Tennessee Strawberry Festival 5k/10k Road Race
PLACE: 1200 E Main Street, Humboldt, TN
TIME: 8 a.m. – 7 p.m.
AGES: ALL
ABOUT: The West Tennessee Strawberry Festival is an 84-year tradition in Humboldt, an opportunity for a classic West Tennessee homecoming as people travel from across the country to enjoy the events, the food, and the fellowship of family and friends.
EVENT: Music City Fit Expo
PLACE: Nashville Fairgrounds (401 Wingrove Nashville, TN)
TIME: 8 a.m. – 4 p.m.
AGES: N/A
ABOUT: The Music City Fit Expo is the Largest Fitness Expo in the south encompassing over 70,000 sq ft and be filled with over 100 Fitness based business vendors, 6 competitions going throughout the day and a special meet and greet with 4X Mr Olympia Jay Cutler.
EVENT: Tennessee WWII Maneuvers Remembered
PLACE: 122 Turner High Circle, Carthage, TN
TIME: 9 a.m. – 9 p.m.
AGES: ALL
ABOUT: This event commemorates the US Army’s WWII field training exercises called the TENNESSEE MANEUVERS.
EVENT: Arts and Crafts Fair at Bowie Nature Park
PLACE: 7211 Bowie Lake Road, Fairview, TN
TIME: 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
AGES: ALL
ABOUT: The City of Fairview will be hosting its 3rd craft fair day at Bowie Nature Park on Saturday, May 13th. This will be a great day to sell and purchase items from local vendors. There will be vendors and multiple food trucks on site.
EVENT: Strawberry Jubilee Festival
PLACE: Nashville Farmer’s Market (900 Rosa L Parks Boulevard, Nashville, TN)
TIME: 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
AGES: ALL
ABOUT: Join us for all things strawberry! We’ll have tons of fun activities for the whole family, live music from bluegrass band Greenwood Rye, boozy strawberry beverages, food trucks, strawberry-themed specials, and, of course, fresh, local strawberries.
EVENT: 82nd Annual Middle Tennessee Strawberry Festival
PLACE: Downtown Portland, Tennessee
TIME: 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
AGES: ALL
ABOUT: Join us in Portland, TN for the 82nd Annual Middle TN Strawberry Festival!
EVENT: Boro BBQ Festival
PLACE: Oaklands Mansion (900 N Maney Ave, Murfreesboro, TN)
TIME: 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.
AGES: ALL
ABOUT: Family and friends, both old and new, can join in the celebration of BBQ at the 9th Annual Boro BBQ Festival on the historic grounds of Oaklands Mansion in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Smell that smoke, cast your vote in the People’s Choice, tour Tennessee Whiskey’s or craft beer, jump around in a bouncy house, or watch some of the top cookers in Middle Tennessee compete in the KCBS Competitive Series-sanctioned Dr. George Smith BBQ Brawl. This event annually attracts thousands of visitors to a day of family fun and adventure.
EVENT: Block Party & Touch A Truck!
PLACE: Veterans Memorial Park (115 Floyd Mayfield Drive, La Vergne, TN)
TIME: 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.
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ABOUT: The City of La Vergne will host its annual Block Party at Veterans Memorial Park. There will be food trucks, vendor booths, and activities for the whole family.
EVENT: Shop Black Fest
PLACE: Hadley Park Community Center (1037 28th Avenue N, Nashville, TN)
TIME: Noon – 7 p.m.
AGES: N/A
ABOUT: Shop Black Fest is a two-day festival for Black-owned small businesses to connect with their next customer, gain more visibility, and prepare for growth with a suite of vendor events, empowering workshops, training seminars & networking opportunities.
EVENT: May Craft Day at St Andrew Lutheran Church
PLACE: 908 Murfreesboro Road, Franklin, TN
TIME: Noon – 7 p.m.
AGES: ALL
ABOUT: If you’re available, come join us! Crafting at home is never a bad thing, but crafting with friends is even better! Feel free to bring your meal or snacks to eat or share.
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The Tennessee Titans continue their December woes with a 38-30 loss to the Indianapolis Colts that was considerably worse than the final score line despite a fourth-quarter comeback attempt.
Indianapolis led 38-7 at one point in the third quarter after the Colts scored 38 straight, but 23 unanswered points by the Titans forced Indianapolis to run a four-minute offense to close the game out.
Tennessee (3-12) was done in by the Colts’ 24-point second quarter. Jonathan Taylor finished with 218 rushing yards and three touchdowns as Tennessee’s defense allowed 335 rushing yards overall.
Here are three key moments from the Titans’ Week 16 game:
Tennessee Titans vs. Indianapolis Colts key moments
Scenario: Titans give Colts good field position after missed 53-yard field goal
Brayden Narveson’s first field goal attempt for the Titans, stepping in for the injured Nick Folk, was from 53 yards in the first quarter with the Titans leading 7-0 with 14:16 left in the second quarter.
Tennessee could have taken a 10-point lead. But Narveson’s kick was short and wide right, giving the Colts the ball near midfield.
The Colts drove down the field after the missed field goal, tying the game on an Anthony Richardson 5-yard touchdown run.
Scenario: Jonathan Taylor’s first touchdown run of the game gives Colts the lead
In a 7-7 game, Colts running back Jonathan Taylor took off for the first of several big runs on Sunday.
Taylor sprinted on zone left run, then cut back and sprinted for a 65-yard touchdown run with 7:25 left in the second quarter. Indianapolis took the lead and never looked back.
Scenario: Kenny Moore’s interception leads to a Josh Downs TD catch, Colts’ 24-7 halftime lead
Mason Rudolph’s telegraphed pass was picked off by Kenny Moore with 1:25 left in the first half, and the Colts quickly took advantage.
Josh Downs took a quick pass on a bubble route and raced past two Titans defenders for a 27-yard touchdown catch just before halftime. Indianapolis led 24-7 at the break, and the Titans’ woes continued.
What Nico Iamaleava said after Tennessee football’s loss at Ohio State
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Tennessee’s path to the College Football Playoff had been paved with cold-from-behind wins.
On Saturday night at Ohio Stadium, the Vols didn’t have another comeback effort in them.
TALK ABOUT IT IN THE ROCKY TOP FORUM
Hindered by an uncharacteristic performance from its typically reliable defense and injuries, No. 9 Tennessee fell behind three scores in the first half against No. 8 Ohio State and didn’t have the offense to make up for it, leading to a 42-17 defeat that ended its season.
The Vols (10-3) had been plagued by slow starts through the first half of the season, more often than not able to find enough life to win.
They did it against Florida, Alabama and Vanderbilt in the triumph that clinched their first-ever playoff berth.
But that kind of start proved costly vs. the Buckeyes (11-2), who posted more than 430 yards of total offense and never came close to giving up their lead.
If there was any positive that could have been gleaned from Tennessee’s performance, it was quarterback Nico Iamaleava.
Iamaleava, at times during those stagnant starts looked very much like a freshman quarterback trying to find his footing as a now full-time starter.
In the second half of the season, though Iamaleava was more poised and the Vols’ began flourish on that side of the ball.
Tennessee didn’t flourish in many areas on Saturday. What small doses of momentum they found almost always involved Iamaleava.
He ran the ball 20 times for 47 yards, extending drive and rushing for both of the Vols’ only touchdowns.
Here is everything Iamaleava said about the performance.
On if he expected to run the ball 20 times
“I mean, 20 (carries). No, I did not expect to run that many times. Some shots that were there, and overall as a team we didn’t just execute the whole game plan, so got to be better.”
On what disappointed him most about the performance
“Just started off slow. We were supposed to come in, had a great game plan to come in and fire first, and they hit us in the mouth first. We were just trying to recover that whole game. First half I thought we did a great job of that, and second half coming in I thought we could have played at a way higher level than we did.”
On what team can take away from loss
“I think just use it as motivation. We’ve been putting in work since January to get to this point, and it sucks to go out that way because that’s not who we are. love this team. I love the team we have. Just the way tonight went was not the way we wanted it to go, and we’ll use that as fuel and motivation during this off-season to really hit it.”
On what Tennessee needs to do to beat better teams on the road
“I think that all just comes to executing on the road. Like I said, our coaches gave us a great game plan, and us as players, as the team, we’re the ones out there on the field playing, and we’ve just got to hold ourselves to a higher standard and execute at a higher level.”
On Dylan Sampson and Dont’e Thornton Jr. dealing with injuries, how it effected the game
“Shoot, at the end of the day, man, whoever is out there, whether it’s a freshman or not, we’ve got to be able to execute the same way with those guys or not, and we didn’t do a good job of that tonight.“
On the difference between running an offense at home and on the road
“I would just say there’s a crowd noise that plays a factor in how we play. We can’t play as fast as we want to without tempo, and that’s really the biggest factor was crowd noise.”
On what personnel Tennessee can add to open up the offense
“Obviously in the off-season, me, Coach Joey, and Coach Heup are always have conversations about how we can excel this offense, and it’ll be that in the off-season, too.”
On large contingent of Tennessee fans that were at Ohio Stadium
“I love it. Man, I was so happy to see all the orange in the stands. It sucks the performance we gave out for them, but I hope they get home safe, man. I really appreciate their support.”
The Ohio State Buckeyes’ loss to the Michigan Wolverines now feels like ages ago.
Ohio State went into its first-round College Football Playoff matchup against the Tennessee Volunteers with major question marks.
Will Howard was under fire. The play calling was in the crosshairs. Ryan Day’s job security had become a regular topic of discussion.
But then, the Buckeyes hammered Tennessee by a score of 42-17 to advance to the Rose Bowl for a chance for revenge against the Oregon Ducks.
Ohio State put together arguably its best performance of the season against a very tough Tennessee opponent. The Buckeyes scored 21 points in the first quarter, immediately sending a message to the Volunteers—and the country—that they meant business.
Howard, who looked like a deer in headlights in the regular-season finale against Michigan, stepped up with a significant performance. Yes, there was the red zone interception, but in the end, it was no harm, no foul (he probably shouldn’t do that against Oregon, though).
Jeremiah Smith looked every bit of the phenom we all thought he was heading into 2024. The defense was tremendous. Day? He coached a terrific game.
But the most impressive part of this showing by Ohio State was the resolve that it demonstrated, picking itself up off the mat after a soul-crushing defeat to the Wolverines earlier in the month.
I have to admit: I wasn’t sure if the Buckeyes had this in them. Not after they mustered just 10 points against a far inferior Michigan opponent, a game in which they were physically beaten up.
And considering that Tennessee’s defense was even stingier than Michigan’s this year, I certainly didn’t anticipate that Ohio State would drop 42 points.
Nevertheless, here we are.
A couple of weeks ago, it was beginning to look like the Buckeyes wouldn’t even have a chance against Oregon. Heck, there were some who felt that the Volunteers would beat them.
It wasn’t due to a lack of talent, either. It was more due to the thought that Ohio State lacked an identity and didn’t seem to have the mental fortitude required to win a national championship.
Remember: the Buckeyes also lost to the Ducks earlier in the season as a result of some mental erros and not being able to seal the deal.
So the concerns surrounding Ohio State heading into the College Football Playoff were legitimate.
But the Buckeyes appear to have flipped a switch, and it appears that their tenacity has finally matched their excessive talent.
Now, we’ll see if Ohio State can exact revenge on Oregon in the Rose Bowl.
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