2012 Saturday, December 8, Franklin, TN
It was A Dickens of a Christmas in Franklin Tennessee?
My husband and I ate breakfast of eggs, sausage, and toast.
We arrive in Franklin Tennessee about 10:00 a.m.
My husband and I walked around taking pictures of costumed characters from Dickens story “A Christmas Carol.
I rode the horse drawn carriage around the Public Square cost $2.00.
The carriage had four patted bench seats that would seat up to twelve people of normal size.
It was pulled by a couple of horses, one was brown and white and the other pitch black.
We saw holiday bazaar arts and crafts throughout the public square.
There were musicians along the streets; we saw violinists, hand bell choirs, harpists, and carolers.
I grabbed a picture of Scrooge, the Old “Humbug” himself.
My husband took a picture of me next to the Grim Reaper.
I took several pictures of the Cratchit family along with Tiny Tim, The Ghost of Christmas Past, Future, and Bobbies (who are actually Franklin police officers on duty) Father and Mother Christmas.
We sampled peppermint pretzels, and we watched the Morris Dancers perform a Cornish dance with swords and sticks from the mining communities of Cornwall.
It rained the first part of the morning, we saw many people carrying umbrellas, the rain did not detain the festival.
We ate lunch at Papa Boudreaux Cajun Café & Catering Co., we spent $33.15.
The building was painted purple and trimmed in a bright yellow with iron-metal Iron tables and chairs sitting outside.
Inside there were long wooden bench tables that could set up to eight people, and total occupancy max is 49.
On the outside of the restaurant on the purple door was a sign that read,” Restrooms are for paying customers ONLY! Sorry, we are a small establishment…….Signed Pap’s Management.
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| Scrooge walking the streets of Franklin |
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| Wet Streets of Franklin |
I took pictures of many historic markers: Courthouse, behind the marker was a sign that read “Franklin on foot” .
What once was the local courthouse is now the Visitors Center in Franklin.
Another sign Union Headquarters Planning for battle, John H. Eaton was located near a manger scene.
St Philip Chaotic Church Marker in was in front of the Church.
The Old Factory Store is now a bookstore where, there was several authors were singing book.
We also saw the Masonic Temple, Hiram Lodge No 7 & building and marker which was in the Civil War tour number 17.
We saw the Ewen Cameron marker, The Presbyterian church marker.
We stopped inside the Starbucks Coffee store to use the restroom before we left Franklin.
We passed many war markers as we walked back to the van. We saw the Chickasaw Treaty Council, Field Hospital caring for the wounded, Franklin Special School District, Franklin Cumberland Presbyterian Church and Hincheyville Markers.
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| Christmas Tree in Center of Town |
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| Lady in Pink |
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| Carriage Rides |
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| Cratchit Family |
We rode to Leipers Fork about 1:30 P.m. to watch the Christmas parade, but the parade was canceled because of the weather. The town was hit by lighting earlier that day.
The participants of the Christmas Parade had gathered and dis-pursed after the storm.
So many of them had to travel down main street and we saw many.
We saw a sign that read “Possum Holler Garage Like US on Facebook.”
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| Radio Flayer Wagon |
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| Possum Holler Garage |
We saw Radio Flayer Wagon atop a Jeep full of riders full of Christmas Cheer.
We saw Possum Holler Garage Sawdust tow-truck pulling and old Plymouth car behind it.
We saw F 150 Truck pulling boat on-top of wagon with riders wearing Santa hats.
We saw Old Chevrolet Truck with the inscription Posser Holler Garage pulling an outhouse inscribed on the side was “Old NO. 7.”
There was a round hole cut in the outhouse and it had a reindeer hanging out of the hole with 4-closed underneath. On the backside of the outhouse was a satellite dish, sign that read, “Merry Christmas.
A sign that read “Possum Holler est. 2006, “The other White Meat”, “24 Wreck Her Service”, “You Bend We Mend ’em”.
Beneith the signs was Frosty the Snowman, with a couple of reindeer and a sign that read,”STAY BACK 100 FEET EXPLOSIVE GAS.”
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| Riding in the 1921 Clampetts truck |
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| STAY BACK 100 FEET EXPLOSIVE GAS.” |
We walked through the Winters Arts located at Locke Building.
We went inside the Serenity Madison antiques, & mercantile store.
We stopped inside the Laurel Leaf Fashion Store.
We saw the Puckett’s grocery restaurant with men sitting outside.
My husband made my picture sitting in the Clampet’s Old Ford Truck. It had a homemade wooden bench to set upon.
Inside and hanging along the old truck I saw, a jug of moonshine, a washtub, a trunk, a five gallon bucket, a frying pan and a dead opossum lying in a wash pan, hanging under the backside of the truck, just waiting for Granny Clampet to fry.
We saw an outdoor theater that was located inside was a live Christmas tree that had hundreds of colorful bulbs strung around it. On either side standing straight and tall were nutcrackers.
As we were leaving we saw the Church of Christ at Leiper’s Fork Meets Here EST 1831.
We walked around the many stores and did not buy anything.
We left around 2:30 p.m. traveling down the Natchez Trace to Lawrenceburg, Tn
We stopped at Kroger’s in Lawrenceburg at Kroger’s where we bought a baked chicken, two slices of red velvet cake, chocolate covered almonds and rolls.
We took all that food home to have a feast.
