5/5/2017 Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky

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Linda and Tim Bunyan

MAMMOTH CAVE NATIONAL PARK, KENTUCKY

The longest cave system (412 Miles) known in the world, the park was established as a national park in 1941.  

 The National Parks are stories about people: 
We notice and honor 

The plaque honoring
 Stephen Tync Mather 
as a leader of the founding of the National Park Service.

 There are ways to get around this National Park 'resort!!

Walkway to the ice cream parlor in the National Park!

The National Parks lend full meaning of democracy and wonders of nature which are reflections of our dreams.

 Making history and getting our National Park book stamped.

We scream for

 Ice Cream......in this National Park!!

Here is the Post Office at this National Park!!

World Heritage Site!

Here is our Site.  Comfy and American!!!

5/2/2017 Nashville

 

We come out of the Natchez Trace Parkway into:

Nashville is rich in history and remains potent and current.  


This is the AT&T headquarters building  (our daughter, Angela, had many successful, career years with this grand company) is located in the middle of downtown Nashville.

Actor!  Recall Two parties are the current of electricity for our nation, and keep it going properly.  The two parties safeguard our interests by watching one another.

Multi-use Nissan Stadium located on the east bank of the Cumberland River, directly across the river from downtown Nashville.  Mostly Tennessee Titans NFL football is played here; but also large concerts, such as the June COUNTRY MUSIC ASSOCIATION Music Festival.

Nine miles east of downtown on Rudy's Farm the new Opry venue continues to broadcast at the: Gaylord Opry Resort and Hotel Convention Center.  A wonderful way to spend a rainy day walking the resort's beautiful grounds. 

Tim found a way for us to experience the Ryman in downtown Nashville!  We were thrilled to attend a local charity event at the Ryman Auditorium on 5th Avenue North, in Nashville. 
 Reba and John Prine were featured guests.

Nashville Icon

5/1/2017 Outside the 800' width of the TRACE PARKWAY

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Linda and Tim Bunyan

Muscle Shoals, Alabama

We are heading north on the Natchez Trace yet Tim and I ventured outside the Parkway to visit the special music trail laid down at
 Muscle Shoals, Alabama.  

The small, nondescript recording studio was founded by the studio musicians: 
The Swampers. 
 The studio has a history and established a reputation for developing the:
"Muscle Shoals Sound" 

The location of the FAME Studios, a recording studio in Muscle Shoals, Alabama is along the Tennessee River, known as the Shoals area.   Muscle Shoals sound is known for originating at the recording studio using the same studio players and accomplishing hit songs from the 1950s to currently at the FAME Studios.   In 1950, Founder of Muscle Shoals Music Rick Hall started producing hit records. 
 It is added to the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage.

  The Tennessee River has played a key role in historic land disputes between Native Americans and Anglo-American settlers in the late 1700s.  Now FAME STUDIOS sits nearby and is surrounded by suburbia.  The studio is still actively operating. 








A place we choose as a National Register of Historic Places
 has receive community awards.

We visited BUNYAN'S BBQ.....IT ROCKS!
 This cozy, old-time, pit stop serves up BBQ sandwiches at their takeout counter inside this convenience-sized luncheonette.  
 These lovely ladies, here with the Owner, have been employed for over 30 years at Bunyan's BBQ!  

 It is famous to us for not only the name; but also, Mac Mcanally (a successful musician on his own and Jimmy Buffett's 'right-hand man' on stage) had just come in last week and ordered 50 BBQ, pulled port sandwiches with the mustard slaw: To Go.......taking them to the Fame Studio for those that make music!