It’s our last day here at Natchez
Trace, we’re moving on tomorrow to Nashville.
Dang it, Kenny Rogers is playing
the CMA Festival there tonight, Garth Brooks too. Would have been a great festival to see,
especially as we are right in the area but unfortunately I didn’t do the
research and only found out about it today.
So we chat over coffee and plan
the afternoon’s activities. We go for a
drive further along the Natchez Trace and then walk along the Old Trace checking
out the monuments etc., ending up in Hohenwald, a little town, pretty much
closed up today being Sunday. Did stop
at the $ General though, that was open.
There is quite a bit of history
in this state. Tennessee is bordered by eight states. In the civil war TN provided more soldiers to the
Confederacy than any other state. The land was originally worked by farmers and
foresters and then thanks to the Tennessee River the state became the nation’s
largest electricity supplier. The State
Motto is “Agriculture and Commerce” but the greatest export is music. Jasper Newton Daniel bought a moonshine
business when he was 13 years old and peddled his sour mash whiskey to both
sides during the Civil War. When liquor laws changed post war Jack Daniel
Distillery No 1 became the first registered distillery in the country, in the
county of Lynchburg. However you have to
cross the county line before partaking, Lynchburg is a dry county. Go figure!
Cooked out on the grill again
tonight, our flat iron beef steak was excellent, will get some more at our next
shop, very yummy!
Also did some research on what
makes fire flies glow - they produce a chemical reaction inside their bodies
that allows them to light up – it’s called bioluminescence. Several studies have shown that female
fireflies choose mates depending upon specific male flash pattern characteristics. But not all the flashing of fireflies is
motivated by romance. While each firefly species has its own pattern of
flashing, some females imitate the patterns of other species. Males land next
to them – only to be eaten alive. Some experts think the firefly’s flashy style
may warn predators of the insect’s bitter taste. On the other hand, some frogs
don’t seem to mind. They eat so many fireflies that they themselves begin to
glow. There you go!
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