We started our final 500 mile day of travel winding up in lots of traffic in the town that Dolly Parton built. She was also born and raised here in much different economic circumstances.
Larry and Gloria starting the day on the bus with a song.
Lunch stop in Corbin, KY, the home of Col. Harland Sanders and the start of the KFC empire. Hard to imagine now, but this was the route to Asheville, NC, where Hwy 25 still runs through.
A small museum dedicated to Col. Sanders.
He started out as the owner of a gas station and began to offer meals to travelers. This kitchen is where food was prepared in the early days.
Our home for the next three days. There are two halls where music is offered. This was across the street from the smaller hall with morning bible study and major quartets singing. Later regional acts will perform as the the program starts in the LeConte center.
Will the bus fit under the canopy?
It did.
Room keys for our group.
Next to our hotel is this cemetery that has been used from pioneer days until now. The stones in the foreground are illegible.
A veteran of the Revolutionary War. Perhaps the Virginia colony claimed this area or he lived in Virgina, Mitchell Porter is credited with being in Throuston's Virginia Company.
This more modern marker is for Peter Rambo who fought in the War of 1812 when the British burned the White House. Little did he know what "Rambo" would come to mean in our time.
Here lies Harley Parton, perhaps an ancestor of Dolly Parton.
A memorial to a loving wife with the caption,
"Eliza Kate Hammer
wife of
Wm J Kelly
Died
September 12, 1884,
27 Yrs, 7 Mos & 7 D's"
Our bus dropped us off at the LeConte center.
Popular groups had booths selling musical offerings.
From where we sat, it was like watching a basketball game from high up in the stands.
Offering a suggestion to lower the volume in the center.
"Eliza Kate Hammer
wife of
Wm J Kelly
Died
September 12, 1884,
27 Yrs, 7 Mos & 7 D's"
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