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Your weekly planner of Chattanooga-area events (including the 3 Sisters Festival and October’s first scares)

Staff File Photo / Tours of the Homesteads Tower Museum in Crossville, Tenn., are included in the $5 admission price for the Homesteads Apple Festival, concluding Sept. 26.
Staff File Photo / Tours of the Homesteads Tower Museum in Crossville, Tenn., are included in the $5 admission price for the Homesteads Apple Festival, concluding Sept. 26. Staff File Photo / Tours of the Homesteads Tower Museum in Crossville, Tenn., are included in the $5 admission price for the Homesteads Apple Festival, concluding Sept. 26.

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TO DO SUNDAY

> Go downtown: If you’re downtown to watch the Ironman athletes compete, you might consider other stops during their 116-mile bike ride (two loops) into Chickamauga, Georgia.

> On the Southside, Chattanooga Market has planned an Apple Festival, with cakes, pies and jellies, plus candles and other nonedible products that celebrate the favored fruit. The market is open 11 a.m.-4 p.m. at First Horizon Pavilion, 1826 Carter St. The Lodge Cast Iron Sizzle Stage will feature musical acts Redd & William at 12:30 p.m. and Lon Eldridge at 2 p.m. chattanoogamarket.com

> Midtown, art organization Mark Making will present the final performance of local playwright Peggy Douglas’ “Steel Toes and Hired Hands” at 3 p.m. at Miller Park, 928 Market St. The poetic monologue, bridged by R&B, country and rock music, tells the stories of mill workers, domestics and hired hands in 1950s Chattanooga. markmaking.org