Rally round the park in Bell Buckle, Tn
The Rally round the park started in 2003 by Charles
Cooke and Bill Bingham to raise money for a city park in downtown bell
buckle. Bell Buckle celebrated it 150th birthday this recently
and form the pictures we saw, very little has changed I this town
since 1910.
With the city area populated with antique
shops, visiting here is truly a step back in time.
The people of Bell Buckle are as friendly and courteous
as you would expect form a small southern town.
The Rally was a short tour of the farm country that surrounds
bell buckle. We saw covered bridges, live stock farms, stables
and inspirational messages carved in stone on the buildings of the
city of Bell Buckle.
The rally consisted of following a route presented I
the form of photographs of intersections. An additional challenge
was added to the event by Charlie haven taken the photos last fall
when the leaves were off the trees making some of the intersections
look quite a bit different.
He also threw in a a few very simple course
following twists that caught us of guard. More information on how to
navigate a road rally is on my blog at http://tsdrally.blogspot.com
He added some questions for us to find along the route
to be used in the event of a tie in mileage. I think most of the
contestants enjoyed looking for the answers to the questions as much
as anything about the rally.
One back at the park in Bell Buckle, we were treated
to grilled burgers and other old fashioned dinner on the grounds type
food from the resident s of Bell Buckle.
There was a cake decorating contest, some blue live
blue grass music, poetry reading and lots of other entertainment to
keep us occupied while the score were tabulated.
When we met back at the rally pavilion, we ended up
in second place due to our minor off course excursion and Tom and
Angie Parrish were the winners being only 0.3 miles off the correct
mileage.
Everyone of the over 40 people involved appeared to have
a great time raising money for a good cause. Looking out at the
grassy park complete with playground equipment is a huge improvement
from the rocky field we saw back in 2003.
See more pictures at Bell
Buckle Cafe
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