Jonesborough

Rebs rolled our flank.

I was captured at Jonesboro, Tennessee.

What brings you down here, Colonel?

It isn't uncommon for guards to plant spies among the prisoners.

There's a national storytelling network.

There's a national storytelling festival, Jonesboro, Tennessee.

These things have been going on for decades.

And you can study, you can join, even if you're not a professional storyteller.

There's a national storytelling network.

There's a national storytelling festival, Jonesborough, Tennessee.

These things have been going on for decades.

And you can study, you can join, even if you're not a professional storyteller.

So what can I do? I mean, I stumbled through it that night, thanks mostly to that guy who sat there in the front row and sang along uninvited like he was in church with big tears rolling down his cheeks.

I got to tell you, Jonesboro, it was just about the greatest day of my work life.

The fellow who came and stepped out of that limousine almost 50 years ago now and into that fellow's memory was Paul Robeson.

I was 14 years old.

And before that, we heard from John O'Connor, from his recording, We Ain't Gonna Give It Back, songs for the labor movement.

And we heard a great song called Saturday.

from John O'Connor, and we let off that set recorded live at the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesboro, Tennessee.

That's the big one.

It was somewhere in East Tennessee.

I think it was near Jonesboro.

There was an old house in the 1800s, and there was a Civil War veteran

that had lived there

It's only in one photo, and I've taken several frames of that.

Same camera.

I went into historic Jonesboro, Tennessee.

Now, that's a place you'll want to visit when you're in West Virginia.

Yeah.

Yeah, Jonesboro and all that up in the old part of East Tennessee there.

Yeah, and that was a nice thing about Mountain City.

You were close to Boone, North Carolina.

I'm, I'm gonna stop playing y'all.

Jonesborough, to be specific.

Tell us about Buc-ee's.

Yes.

Here's a question for you guys now.

Mm-hmm.

Have you guys ever been to Jonesborough?

Arkansas? No.

And we move around the Tri-Cities, so we're not, like, located just in one town.

Like, we'll travel up to, like, 45 minutes away to a brewery up in, like, Kingsport or Bristol, Tennessee or all the other Jonesboro.

These places mean nothing to you, but they're just areas around, like, northeast Tennessee, right? So, like, within a 45-minute drive radius.

Yeah.

So they leave.

I don't remember if they were still in Salisbury when they get the commission, but they leave from there, go to Morganton, North Carolina, and then from there to Jonesboro in East Tennessee and then on down whatever.

road had been carved from Jonesboro to Nashville.

Just a little aside.

So Nashville was founded as Fort Nashville.