The 41st annual Down Home Days Festival will be a subdued event this year.
There will be no pancake breakfast to fortify participants or spectators for a parade and street fair in downtown Chickamauga.
There will be neither contests to determine who has grown the best beard for the event nor beauty pageants for little girls.
No internationally famous county music rising star or established legend will perform to a crowd of thousands.
No, this year’s will be a quiet affair and the two-day celebration of past years that drew as many as 15,000 will be only a memory.