Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Picnic East Tennessee
http://porchmaunderings.blogspot.com ^ | 3/3/09 | MHGinTN

Posted on 03/03/2009 2:46:28 PM PST by MHGinTN

Okay Freepers in the East Tennessee/Western North Carolina/ Southeastern VA Area, we’re gonna have a picnic! Time to gather, meet one another, and become a potential network in the coming months if needed. [ It’s also fun to have a picnic in the Spring before the insects get going too strongly. ]

My family has a nice picnic area with entertainment pavillion in Boones Creek (the Tri-Cities area) and I am inviting you freeper folks to gather there on April 18th for food and conversation. I’m not even asking y’all to bring anything to the picnic, unless you have something special you like to drink. I’m providing sandwich fixins, fried chicken, potato salad, slaw, chips, unsweetened tea (sweet and low and sugar will be available to add to taste), bottled water, and Coca Cola. There will be clean ice in a cooler, and plastic cups, paper plates and napkins and plastic utensils … all the stuff of picnicking.

Plan on eating around 2 PM, but arrive before noon and chat it up. The picnic area has room for primitive camping (no electric or water hook ups), a separate parking area, and a fire pit to enjoy for those who wish to stick around into the late evening. If you let me know in advance you’re coming, I can unlock the area for overnighters on Friday evening, and feel free to stay until Sunday if you clean up after yourselves. I have one gas lantern for evening in the pavilion at the picnic grounds, so if you’re arriving Friday and want to bring a lantern for use after dark, that’s about all you need bring to have a good time.

It is sometime chilly in the evenings in mid-April, so bring a sweater or coat to use if needed. There is a ‘johnny house’ and I will park my little moho at the grounds with a bathroom on board and a generator if evening need arises. Freeper bert (from Kingsport) will be posting pix of the grounds, showing the pavilion and the ‘mosh pit’. Please let us know (bert or me) if you intend to join in so I can plan food accordingly. If you intend to camp Friday or Saturday (or both), please let me know a week ahead.

If you do a google map search on 290 Crouch Road, Gray TN 37659, you will get a view of where the picnic grounds are located. Generally, highway 36 runs from Johnson City to Kingsport. If coming from the Johnson City direction (toward Kingsport), turn right at the light at Zaks Furniture (Boones Creek Road crossing HY 36) onto Pickens Bridge Road (Boones Creek Road turns into Pickens Bridge Road at the light going northeast). Pickens bridge Road goes down a long hill then makes an abrupt left up a steep hill, past a Baptist church on a hairpin right curve and straightens out. In the straightaway Crouch Road turns off to the left and is named Flowerville Road going right … take the left on Crouch Road. About a mile from Pickens Bridge Road you will pass a restored historic log house on the right (the Jesse Crouch historic home site), the picnic grounds are just down the road on the right, across from a large log house and log cottage, on the right up the hill. The picnic grounds are in ‘Mary’s Bottom’, with a spring branch running through it.

If coming along highway 36 from the Kingsport direction (toward Johnson City), turn left at Zaks and follow the above directions. Interstate 81 has a highway 36 exit near Kingsport that is approximately ten miles from Zaks furniture, going toward Johnson city. If you follow Interstate 81 and take Interstate 26 toward Asheville, there is a Boones Creek Road exit. This is the Boones Creek Road which ends at the light at Zaks Furniture if you go right off of the Boones Creek Road exit from interstate 26.

If anyone needs more involved directions or more detailed info, freepmail me and I’ll give you my phone number to call. Bert says freepers are always lookin’ for a reason to take a trip. Well, here it is! We’re havin’ a picnic for freepers.


TOPICS: Cheese, Moose, Sister; Freeoples; Outdoors
KEYWORDS: freeperconvention; picnic; toga
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-50 last
To: MHGinTN
Wish I could be there........

My pop was from TN.....Paris to be specific.

Someday I will visit.....

Best FRegards,

41 posted on 03/25/2009 11:40:24 AM PDT by Osage Orange (Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators. -Will Rogers)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 40 | View Replies]

To: Osage Orange

Round up the family and a tent or two and come on!


42 posted on 03/25/2009 11:42:21 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 41 | View Replies]

To: jaycee

I’ll put up a sign or two at strategic turn points off the old JC/Kingsport road.


43 posted on 03/25/2009 3:27:44 PM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . John Galt hell !...... where is Francisco dÂ’Anconia)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 35 | View Replies]

To: bert

Sounds good to me. Must be two threads running. I looked back over the posts for the directions that were written down for me, maybe I overlooked them on this thread. I will go back and check again.

Thanks much!


44 posted on 03/25/2009 7:44:11 PM PDT by jaycee ("His eye is on the sparrow, and I know he watches me. ")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 43 | View Replies]

To: bert

Thats okay, its (directions)in Freepmail....forgot! LOL!


45 posted on 03/25/2009 7:46:44 PM PDT by jaycee ("His eye is on the sparrow, and I know he watches me. ")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 43 | View Replies]

To: jaycee

do you know steveo?


46 posted on 04/16/2009 5:37:00 PM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . John Galt hell !...... where is Francisco dÂ’Anconia)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 38 | View Replies]

To: bert

No, I don’t believe I know steveo. Does he live in Bristol?
I just wrote Nellie Mae to ask if she was going and I could perhaps meet her on 394 at the shopping center. That is, if she hasn’t made other plans. I am waiting to hear from her now.


47 posted on 04/16/2009 6:09:56 PM PDT by jaycee
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 46 | View Replies]

To: MHGinTN
Look for the signs,,,,,


48 posted on 04/17/2009 4:23:28 PM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . John Galt hell !...... where is Francisco dÂ’Anconia)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: All; bert; ArizonaJacks; cva66snipe; NellieMae; tennmountainman; Rocky Top Girl; H8klintoon; ...
Just had time to sit down at the computer! Phew, picnics is work don’tchaknow! But it’s fun work. If you are driving in on I-81 from the Knoxville direction or Bristol direction, take the I-26 exit toward Asheville;
about eight or ten miles along I-26, take the Boones Creek /Jonesborough exit and at the bottom of the off ramp take a left and go back under the interstate with a ‘Bob Evans’ restaurant on your left;
after passing the Bob Evans, the second traffic light is HWY 36/North Roan Street, straight through the light is Pickens Bridge Road, go straight through the light passing Zak's Furniture;
follow Pickens Bridge Road down a hill and curving back up-hill to the left, around a hairpin curve to the right at the Baptist Church, then stay on Pickens Bridge Road for approximately two miles and turn left on Crouch Road (to the right will be Flowerville Road ... yes, East Tennesseeans have a weird habit of renaming roads at crossroads!).

The picnic is on the left (in 'Mary's Bottom') just past the restored Jesse Crouch log home which sits on the right one mile from Pickens Bridge Road, along Crouch Road).

Come hungry, I don’t have room at home for leftovers. Food served at 2PM, but snacks and drinks will be at the pavillion from around eleven when Ben comes to hang the freeper flags. If you have a sign fromt he Tea Parties, bring it!

49 posted on 04/18/2009 5:56:31 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 48 | View Replies]

To: MHGinTN

Have fun. It looks like it will be a beautiful day for a picnic. Wish I could be there. While you’re eating, I will be taking my first section of the CPA exam. The picnic sounds more enjoyable.


50 posted on 04/18/2009 6:38:27 AM PDT by tnlibertarian (Wealth is earned, not distributed.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 49 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-50 last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson