Schedule of Events for 2017 (updated March 8, 2017)

10am	Celebration Opens      Announcements by President      House open for tours      Vendors open Membership desk and Souvenir booth open
11:10am - 11:55am  1:00pm - 1:45pm  3:00pm - 3:45pm	Bazzania! - Mary Priestly and the Gals from Sewanee are back! The Musik Meisters and Bazzania bands are on board and will alternate 45 minute routines thru out the day.
10:15am - 11:00am 12:00pm - 12:45pm  2:00pm - 2:45pm	The Musik Meisters is a Nashville based polka band that has been rolling out the barrels with audiences around the United States for over a decade. The Musik Meisters have been the featured house band at the historic Gerst Haus restaurant located in downtown Nashville for many years and is proud to call it home! This band is as pure and authentic as it gets. Wearing their Tyrolean attire and singing in German; your heart can only be happy as you move to the polka beat! Besides their regular "gig" at the Gerst, the band enjoys playing performances at ethnic festivals, celebrations, Oktoberfests, and private events large and small. Come listen to the happy music and raise your stein.....Prosit!
12:00pm	Break to tour, take a hayride, sample wine and cheese...... Activities and refreshments to be announced.
	Introduction of distinguished guests and welcoming comments at the band stand. Many of our celebrations have been honored with a visit from the Consulaate general of Switzerland in Atlanta. Hopefully they will be able to come along with you! Historian Clopper Almon will hopefully be available for book signing - "The Swiss Colony at Gruelti". Written in the 1930s by Frances Helen Jackson as a thesis for her Master's Degree, the "Gruetli Book" has become a treasure to us as Ms. Jackson was able to interview a few of the original colonists and give an eye-witness account to the state of the Colony in the 30s. Mr. Almon, fluent in German, has spent years updating, adding maps and indexing this valuable resource. His work has shed much light on the colonists and expecially on the earliest part of their journey to a new land.
12:30pm & 1:15pm	Hayrides behind house and barn tours Gee! I said Haw Paa!
1:30pm & 3:00pm	Hayride barn tours Tours of Cheese house and outer buildings Local wine tasting (limited to persons over 21 and while supply lasts).
3:20pm-4:00	Tasting and Sampling      Local Wine and Cheese at concession stand      American, Swiss, and other varieties, Mmmmm!
3:45pm	Closing remarks
4pm	Gates close

Gate Fees Adults: $5.00 Concessions Various venders provide all different kinds of food, including brats, kraut, BBQ, sandwiches, Swiss Chocolate, Swiss Cheese, local wines to sample. Tours The farm and all of its out buildings will be open for touring.  Directions to the Stocker-Stampfli Homestead & Farm Museum

From I-24 in Monteagle, take Hwy 41 to Hwy 56 North Follow Hwy 56 North through Tracy City and Coalmont Turn right onto Hwy 108 East to Gruetli-Laager Turn left onto 20th Avenue at the Old Post Office (There will be a large sign over the highway) At the Swiss Colony Cemetery sign, turn right and travel past the cemetery to the Stoker/Stampfli Farm Museum You can also click the following link to bring you in from any direction. Just click link which will open a map to the farm. For step-by-step directions click "Get Directions" in upper left under Google Maps, then type your address in the "A" field and hit enter. This will give detailed directions from your location to the celebration. Stocker-Stampfli Homestead - Gruetli-Laager, TN

If you have any questions, please e-mail info@swisshistoricalsociety.org

Jackie Lawley, President, Grundy County Swiss Historical Society
P.O. Box 69, Gruetli-Laager, TN 37339
Jackie.Lawley@gmail.com