# FranklinWhat

> A local's calendar for Franklin, NC and the Nantahala / Western North Carolina
> mountains.  Aggregates events from public sources (towns, chambers, venues)
> across ~30 sources, refreshed twice daily.  Built for working-age locals
> (ages 22-45) and family-oriented folks, not weekend tourists.

The canonical URL for the site is https://www.franklinwhat.com/

## Primary surfaces

- [Homepage / current calendar](https://www.franklinwhat.com/)
- [This Weekend](https://www.franklinwhat.com/this-weekend/)
- [Today](https://www.franklinwhat.com/today/)
- [This Week](https://www.franklinwhat.com/this-week/)

## Field guides (editorial)

- [Family events in Franklin, NC](https://www.franklinwhat.com/family-events/)
- [Gem mining (Cowee Valley)](https://www.franklinwhat.com/gem-mining/)
- [Waterfalls (Cullasaja Gorge)](https://www.franklinwhat.com/waterfalls/)
- [Live music + Pickin' on the Square](https://www.franklinwhat.com/live-music/)
- [Breweries (the Beer Mile)](https://www.franklinwhat.com/breweries/)

## How this site is built

- [Colophon — stack, sources, philosophy](https://www.franklinwhat.com/colophon/)

## Data

- [Sitemap](https://www.franklinwhat.com/sitemap.xml)
- Per-event pages live at /event/{slug}-{id}/ with Schema.org Event JSON-LD.

## Optional

- Per-event pages older than 30 days past the event date are dropped from
  regeneration and removed from the sitemap.  Past-event pages still
  accessible during their 30-day tail carry `noindex,follow`.
- All editorial copy is hand-written and fact-checked against public sources
  (US Census, USFS, AT Conservancy, town/chamber websites).
- No AI-generated event copy.  No private-group scraping.  No Facebook
  scraping.