James56 Loc: Nashville, Tennessee

While on our RV trip to Hell a couple weeks ago, we at least stopped off for some good old homemade cider. It was mustache lick'n good !!!

Just a half a mile from the railroad tracks...you can get anything you want at, sing it with me.... at Alice's restaruant and the Louisburg Cider Mill

Bluegrassfan Loc: Kentucky

A pretty as a post card. Great shot.

jeanbug35 Loc: Jonesboro AR

Great shot.

Rabbott Loc: Grass Valley , California

exceptin alice !! lovely photo.

James56 Loc: Nashville, Tennessee

Yea, Alice was no where to be found ???

Thank you Kindly Folks...

Rabbott Loc: Grass Valley , California

Alice was down at the jail, bailing out Arlo.

Nashville is one of the top spots on my bucket list,, really want to see Lynchburg, where they make Jack Daniels, and the underground lake i hear so much about.

Farmers Wife Loc: Louisburg, KS

Excellenr pic. You r about 3 miles from our place.

James56 Loc: Nashville, Tennessee

Thanks Farmers Wife...I knew there was someone from Louisburg on here. I used to live in Ottawa and worked at Ottawa Truck for 25 years. We were on our way to Ottawa when we stopped to take this shot.

James56 Loc: Nashville, Tennessee

I've been through Lynchburg...never toured the Distillery yet, so it's still on my bucket list. Come on down to Nashville...they just wrapped up CMA Fanfest. An estimated 80,000 folks came to visit during the 3 day event. Next big event is the 4th of July fireworks show...one of the largest in the Nation. Probably will have 100,000 folks for that one.

jimmya Loc: Phoenix

I did a career in broadcast television, some of it in news doing feature stories in Wichita, Kansas. I did a story on this place back in the 80's and you're absolutely right about the cider. I bought two gallons that day and enjoyed every drop.

Nice shot

h2 Loc: Glasgow, Scotland.

Very interesting shot James - well spotted / captured
Looks a good subject to go to town on in the HDR cooker.

Was Louisburgh the site of major civil war activity ?

George Kravis

Well done, composition, exposure and focus, a generic classic.

James56 Loc: Nashville, Tennessee

Well h2, no major Civil War battle here, but everything boiled up in this area just prior to the outbreak of the War. The period is referred to as "Bleeding Kansas". You see, Kansas wanted to join the United States from a territory to a member State. They wanted to join as a "free" state where slavery was not allowed. The folks in the state of Missouri which borders Kansas was a slave state and therefore tensions between the two regions erupted along the border. Just south of Louisburg was a small Trading Post for folks to resupply on their journeys out West. I believe 7 settlers from the Trading Post area were rounded up and taken to a ravine and shot to death. That site is now a National Historic Site and can be visited by tourist. Furthermore, the town of Lawrence Kansas (about 15 miles northwest of Louisburg) was raided one night by pro-slavery outlaws...called "Quantrill's Raid". One of them being Jesse James. They killed several towns folk then set the town on fire. John Brown...an anti-slavery protester had a cabin near Louisburg, he used it to monitor the border for pro-slavery raiders. John Brown later during the Civil War, went to the armory at Harper's Ferry West Virginia, where he attempted to destroy the south's store of weapons there. He was caught, tried and was executed by hanging. Folks in Kansas still regard him as a hero. There were a few other squirmishes in this area and thus came the name of "Bleeding Kansas".

James56 Loc: Nashville, Tennessee

Thanks for looking George and Jimmy. Your right Jim...best Cider in the area.

h2 Loc: Glasgow, Scotland.

Thanks for history lesson, James.
Been a while since I studied the Civil War at school, so appreciate your taking time out to put me in the picture ( excuse pun).