Not everyone is on Facebook. So I built a free events calendar for five towns that anyone can
open and read, with no account and no login, and I run it myself, as a neighbor.
Out here, a lot of community news lives on one place: Facebook. If a festival, a fundraiser,
or a county event is happening, that is usually where it gets posted. The trouble is simple.
Not everyone has a Facebook account, and not everyone wants one. Those folks were quietly
getting left out of what was going on around them.
A calendar anyone can open.
A public events calendar for five towns, Clarksville, Avery, Annona, Bogata, and Detroit, that anyone can open and read, with no
account or login and no Facebook required. Residents see what is coming up at a glance, and
organizers submit their own events to get the word out. Anyone who would rather not check a
website gets one short email each Monday with what is happening that week, and the whole
calendar is published as a feed you can subscribe to once in Google or Apple Calendar, so
every new event shows up next to your own. It works on whatever people already have, whether
that is an old phone or a desktop at the library.
Plain on purpose.
I kept it fast, plain-spoken, and easy to use, because the whole point was to lower the
barrier, not add another one. Clear listings, mobile-friendly from the start, and simple
enough that someone who is not “a computer person” can still find the Friday night event
they were looking for.
In use, September 2026.
The calendar is finished and in use. As I write this, in September 2026, it lists events out
to December, and people in five towns have a Facebook-free way to know what is going on.
Nobody commissioned it. The site says so itself: run by a neighbor, not a company. It does
exactly what it set out to do: make sure nobody gets left out just because they are not on
social media.
Five towns, all within 25 road miles of my house.
The calendar covers the towns around me. The distances are by road, from Annona, and were measured in September 2026.
Driving distances from Annona to the five towns on the calendar, measured on the road network.
