Community Calendar

Celebrating the milestone of 10 seasons on Discovery Channel’s hit series, “Moonshiners”, comedian Killer Beaz is running the roads delivering his new “Best Buzz in Town” tour of outrageously funny and clean comedy. This legendary comedian continues to make regular performances at The Grand Ole Opry, and is headed, loaded down with laughs, to The Princess Theater in South Pittsburg, Tennessee, Saturday, March 14 at 7:00 PM

Spring Equinox Market
March 21, 2026 • 11–4PM • Studio34
Free entry / $5 contribution welcome

A communal offering to honor the turning of the season. Shop local arts, crafts, and ritual tools + tarot, astrology, herbalism, nature-inspired flash tattoos, clothing swap, chair massage, and more.

Plus: 10% off at The Reading Room next door.

Presented by Randy Patton, “Tufted Textiles Take the Floor” will examine the early history of carpet manufacturing in the Dalton area, focusing on the development of tufting machine technology, the changes in the national marketplace that facilitated the rise of tufted carpeting.

Randy Patton was born in Dalton, Georgia, and attended Dalton State College before receiving his BA from University of Tennessee-Chattanooga and his MA (1985) and PhD (1990) in History from the University Of Georgia. He is the author of Carpet Capital: The Rise of a New South Industry (1999); Shaw Industries: A History (2003); Working for Equality : The Narrative of Harry Hudson (2015); Lockheed, Atlanta, and the Struggle for Racial Integration (2019); and numerous scholarly articles. He currently holds the Shaw Industries Distinguished Chair in History at Kennesaw State University, where he has taught since 1993.

This event is free and open to the public.

The Bandy Heritage Center, Creative Arts Guild, Prater’s Mill Foundation, DSC Derrell
Roberts Library, DSC Appalachian Studies minor program, and Chattanooga Fiber Arts
Guild are proud to partner with Claire Davis to present a Spinning Wheel Workshop!
Before textile mills became widespread throughout Northwest Georgia, families from
across the region had to use spinning wheels to turn wool into yarn for the clothing and
other textiles they used in their daily lives. Spinning was such an essential part of daily
life in Northwest Georgia that it became a vibrant and nostalgic symbol of hearth and
home. The spinning wheel workshop will provide students with the opportunity to
participate in a literally homespun Northwest Georgia fiber arts tradition by gaining
hands-on experience learning to spin yarn on a traditional spinning wheel.

This class is a morning session which will last two and a half hours total. Each student
will be loaned a Kromski Prelude spinning wheel and shown how to spin merino wool
into yarn. All necessary equipment and supplies will be provided by the instructor. This
class is suitable for adults sixteen and up; students under eighteen must have an
accompanying adult present at all times. No prior fiber arts knowledge or experience is
necessary.