Today the only public schools for Clay County students are 10 miles (16 km) east in Hayesville.

Due to frequent gatherings at the folk school, Brasstown clocks were set half-way in-between to avoid confusion.

[13] It features a commercial kitchen, a gym that can seat 850 people, a fenced playground, and a quarter-mile walking track.

[11] Clay County's two-day Punkin Chunkin Festival, where pumpkins are launched through the air via catapult, has been held on Settawig Road in Brasstown since 2009.

[15] Brasstown also hosts the Folk School's annual Fall Festival, which began in 1974 and draws thousands of people to the community.

[17] At midnight on New Year's Eve, instead of dropping an object, a plexiglass box containing a living opossum was lowered from the roof of the store.

The drop was featured on CBS Sunday Morning and PETA threatened to sue again, calling on the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission to step in.

[24] In 2013, the North Carolina General Assembly passed the “Possum Drop Bill,” allowing the WRC to issue live captivity licenses for events.

[24] PETA sued the WRC in response and in September 2013, filed a petition to stop the event from taking place, calling it "cruel.

After lawsuits by PETA and appeals to state officials by concerned citizens,[26] the town opted not to continue the Possum Drop and it has not been held since.

[28] Today many locals celebrate New Year's Eve with dance, music, and food at the nearby John C. Campbell Folk School instead.

[29] The event inspired the “Possum Drop Song,” which is performed every December in the Brasstown Follies at the Folk School during Winter Dance Week.

Today it is the largest and oldest folk school in the United States with more than 6,000 adult students and 100,000 visitors per year.

[32][33][34] Brasstown is served by Erlanger Western Carolina Hospital, a 191-bed facility 2.5 miles (4.0 km) west in nearby Peachtree.