As We Move Northward into Tennessee to the Distillery Areas around Lynchburg, Tullahoma and Manchester, we settled in at Old Stone Fort State Archaeological Park in Manchester, home of Bonnaroo [Famous 4 Day Multi-Stage Camping Festival held on a 700 acre farm). Tennessee State Parks are on a First-Come-First-Serve-Basis. That is Why We Ended Up in Manchester]. Our first day was to Lynchburg to Tour the "JACK DANIEL Distillery". Quite a fabulous and historic place where Mr. Daniel discovered a natural spring back in 1866 and learned how to make whiskey from a his uncle, a preacher. Here Mr. Daniel’s believed that everything should be recycled – from the charcoal chips made from the burned oak pallets that was used to sift the whiskey and then afterwards made into charcoal chips for sale for your bbq; to the mash that was sent to the farmers to feed their cattle which is where McDonald’s gets their beef and that is where the Happy Meals came from. The Welcome Center was very inviting and informative as well as the smells of the tour itself and how he made his Whiskey and how the Oak Barrels are made and are used only once in the distillery process. Since I'm a “Tennessee Squire” I own a plot of land up on the hill behind the Visitor's Center. Or so they say!! Thanks to a Dear Friend of Mine, we were invited after the tour to a special room for only Squires to see and we sit and chatted awhile with our tour guide. I was presented with a little gift box for the Squires who stop in. Two blocks away is the Town of Lynchburg, where we had Lunch early that day. Quaint Little shops, restaurants, boutiques surround the town square with an Old Historic Courthouse that is still being used in the middle. Another Distillery we toured in the area of Tullahoma,TN. is " GEORGE DICKEL" Tennessee Whisky of Cascade Hollow. Mr.Dickel discovered this Cascade Spring in the winter of 1870 and found his Handcrafted Whisky to be smoother when the whisky is chilled before it goes into the charcoal mellowing vats. Mr. Dickel wanted to be different from the others and removed the "E" from the word Whisky. His operation is a lot smaller and unfortunately was not producing any Whisky at the time of our tour. To round off our Cascade of Hard Liquors we decide to mellow it out with some Fine Wines from BEAN CREEK WINERY in Manchester,TN. After tasting half a dozen or so we decided on 3 different ones including the "Bonnaroo" wine. About this Old Stone Fort Sate Park. It’s NOT one we would recommend to camp at, but it was probably a special and mystical place for the Indians some 2000 years ago. This ancient ceremonial site consists of 50 acres enclosed by mounds, bluffs, and cliffs in the fork of the Big Duck and Little Duck Rivers with some beautiful waterfalls. There’s a stone museum where we thought was the fort; only to find out after our tour hike with the park ranger and we found out the farmers up-steams dump their animal fecal in the rivers making them unsafe for swimming. That is as BAD as the LITTER in this State. NO RECYCLING, NO DEPOSITS ON BOTTLES OR CANS, IT SHOWS THEY DO NOT RESPECT THEIR BEAUTIFUL LAND THAT GOD GAVE THEM. “WE GOT TO GO!!! “
FOR MORE INFORMATION GO TO: www.jackdaniels.com
www.georgedickel.com
www.beanscreekwinery.com
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