"Let us go on and take the adventures that shall fall to us." ~C.S. Lewis
For our weekend away, we stayed in The Sessions Hotel and I would absolutely recommend it. This once factory turned hotel is themed in the late 1920s/early 1930s music scene. This hotel is a tribute to the The Bristol Sessions where artists came to record their music for the first time onto records and played [...]
We found ourselves in the small town of Abingdon, Virginia and took a small windy road up to see Whites Mill. This beautiful old grain mill in listed on the Historic Sites register. Take a look into the past at the massive undertaking it was to create flour, cornmeal, etc by grinding grains with giant [...]
On our second day in Southern Virginia, we went to the small town of Abingdon to see the beautiful statue of Midsummer Night's Dream. This fanciful statue plays tribute to the magic and mysticism of Shakespeare's play by the same name. Created by the talented artist Charles Vess, this statue brings you right into the [...]
You absolutely cannot go to Bristol without checking out the Birthplace of Country Music Museum. This museum is a gem and well worth the time to explore. This museum is dedicated to the 10 day recording sessions where music artists from across the country and across all the genres of the time came together to [...]
Bristol is a city that sits right on the border between Tennessee and Virginia. As you walk down main street, depending which side of the street you are on determines which states you are currently in. But the thing that really put this town on the map was an event called The Bristol Sessions. In [...]