The Monteagle Sunday School Assembly, Woman’s Association will be holding the 44st Annual Cottage Tour & Bazaar on Wednesday, July 18. This year there will be five historic cottages, located within the Assembly’s grounds, as well as the auditorium and gymnasium built in 1883.
Tours will take place from 1–4 p.m. Bazaar shopping, food pavilion and the bake sale will take place inside the historic gymnasium and the adjacent tennis court and starting time is 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
Cottages include:
-Alamo, owned by Julia and Walter Pulliam
-Porches, owned by Katherine and Bill Flatley
-Corner Cottage, owned by the Jayne Ann and Frank Woods
-Sans Souci, owned by Pat Anderson
-Resthaven, owned by Irene and Ridley Wills, II
The Bazaar will feature many well-known merchants and a few new-comers displaying their fine arts and crafts. The bake sale will include delicious samplings of items from the Woman’s Association’s “Porch Party II” cookbook, also for sale. Tickets can be purchased the day of the tour for $10 at the North Gate of the Assembly.
This annual event helps fund ongoing projects such as the children’s library and the restoration of historic properties inside the Assembly.
Monteagle Sunday School Assembly is a church. Its Charter, which was granted by the State of Tennessee on October 31, 1882, states the purpose (mission) of the Assembly is "for the advancement of science, literacy attainment, Sunday School interests and the promotion of the broadest popular culture in the interest of Christianity without regard to sect or denomination."
Celebrating is 125th year of continuous operation, Monteagle Sunday School Assembly is inter-denominational and fulfills its original charter and mission through a variety of spiritual, educational, cultural, and health development activities for all ages. From the hundreds of such Assemblies patterned after Chautauqua Institution in New York in the late 1800s, only nine or ten remain active today. In 1982, its 100th Anniversary, Monteagle Sunday School Assembly was placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior.
Since its first session in the summer of 1883, the Assembly has run continuously and thrives today. You may learn more about the Assembly by going to www.monteaglesundayschoolassembly.org.