Trip to Jonesboro

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So… we hopped in the car and decided to go for a drive at about noon today. We have been to Mountain City, Damascus, Bristol, and Shady Valley to the north… To the south, we’ve been to Asheville, Charlotte, Hickory, and Lenoir… So, we decided to head North-West towards Elizabethton, TN.

Well, we didn’t end up in Elizabethton. As we got to the fork in the road on 321, we decided we were going to head towards Johnson City, TN instead. So, we did that. We drove through Johnson City, and of course the downside of taking a Sunday trip is that nothing is open on Sunday. We drove through downtown Johnson City, and it was a ghost-town. We were going to swing around the block to park and walk around anyhow, but the turn we took to go back and park faced us to Jonesboro, TN “The Oldest City in TN”. So, of course we had to go there. The above 2 pictures are from Jonesboro the top is Virginia in the stocks…the lower is a shot of downtown Jonesboro.

Walking around Jonesboro was interesting… Lots of older buildings, as you’ll see below, but in the middle of this old town, was the “International Storytelling Center”. That seems pretty cool. To see what that’s all about, click here.

There is a lot of history in Jonesboro… Which means that there are little signs like this all around, and…

… some of the buildings aren’t in the best shape… But, they do have a lot of character. You can walk around and wonder what was happening in this area 50, 75, 100… even 1 thousand years ago… well maybe not 1000 years ago. There probably wasn’t too much going on back then…

We made this trip just as leaves were starting to come back out, so things were looking rather nice.

We’ll leave off this update with this picture. This is one of my favorites. The plaque is the Ten Commandments, and it’s located to the right side of the main entrance of the Jonesboro Court House. I didn’t think that kind of stuff was legal any more… but apparently, it is.