Linda Randle (headliner artist) and the Chitans (five brothers and sisters) along with pastor and comedian Dr. Dennis Swamnerg. Great night. Truest enjoyed the event even with the rain
If you like bourbon ball candy, this is where it originated. Ruth’s Candy factory. There are other stores, but this is the only place it is made. The company was started by two women before the Great Depression. It lasted through that, WWII rationing and two fires. Ruth Booe invented the bourbon ball and the Kentucky Cornel Mint. The factory is really quite small and yet they make and package over 3 million bourbon balls a year and over 5 million other candies. Ruth worked there well into her 80s and today it is run by her grandson. We were not allowed to photograph inside the factory but I was able to in their little museum. The local bourbon distilleries send over their bourbon and the factory makes special request candy to sell at the distillery. Yes Dennis got some with Makers Mark and Buffalo Trace bourbon and the original. We decided to eat lunch in Frankfort and after sending post cards in the mail Dona found a small business downtown to go to: Kentucky Coffeetr...
Couldn’t be more happy to have my Yankee RV winter jacket! Visitors center displays Union, Confederate and women equally in accounts of the first major battle of the Civil War. Well done. Dennis kept trying to compare his silhouette to Grant as he is a distant relative on his grandmother’s side. Maybe the nose. Our auto tour of the battlefield was like a scavenger hunt through history. 160 years ago a war took place. This battlefield covers three days of the worse and bloodiest battle of the Civil War that lasted 4 years. Interesting fact, General Albert Sidney Johnston, Confederate commander, led 4,400 men against U.S. Grant. He was the highest ranking officer killed in combat during the Civil War and remains the highest American officer ever killed in action. The terrain and amount of equipment they had to move through woods and swamps really seems an impossible task. Touring the sights, hearing the cannon go off and seeing the plaques of times and dates ...
All settled in Tiffin territory. A little chilly here today. Staying at 1st Class Glass waiting till Monday to have Tiffin people come and evaluate our to-do list. Went to lunch at Cole’s BBQ across the border in Mississippi. Small hole in the wall place on a tight corner. Great pulled por, fried green tomatoes and pickles. Picked up some supplies from the Ace hardware store inside a Piggily Wiggly. We are in northern Alabama for sure Visited the Allegro Club back in Red Bay and learned about some interesting spots to visit this weekend.
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