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Monterey has funded a Native American presentation for this year’s Standing Stone Day.
Mayor Nathan Walker said Aldermen approved $4,750 for the event.
“We’re trying to work with the Standing Stone Historical Society and get the community back involved, get our business community back involved, get the region involved to come out and support it,” Walker said.
Walker said with declining interest over the years, Monterey officials wanted to boost interest. Walker said the Native American group will perform dances, tell stories and play music from the Cherokee tribe.
‘We really want to reenergize that base for events,” Walker said. “We’ve proposed several different ways of getting these organizations back on the same page and working together for the greater good. It’s a process and there’s some challenges with it. Truth is we just have to find a way to work together and make these events something people throughout the Upper Cumberland want to come to.”
Walker said he sees the event as something that can not only help tourism but also improve the community’s pride. Monterey held a work session in May on how to revitalize the event.
Standing Stone Day is scheduled for its 43rd year on October 8th. It celebrates Monterey’s history from Native American heritage and the “laying of the wreath & tomahawk” at the monument at Whitaker Park.
