Sterns, KY

After my hike I decided I needed to see something a bit different, so I got in the car and took the back roads to Sterns, KY a former mining town.  The town has a cool old train that takes tourists into Big South Fork Park.  I missed the train by a couple of hours, bummer, but still had fun checking out some of the remnants of this former company town.

I loved the old General Store, which was HUGE and is now used as a sort of Auction House.  It was across the street from a place called Coal Miner's Jamboree with dances every Friday & Saturday and church services on Sunday.  I was there Sunday and they were broadcasting the music outside as well as in, old time Johnny Cash and Loretta Lynn.  What surprised me is that they had bouncers outside - I get bouncers for the evening events - but it made me curious about the type of service that needed bouncers, if I hadn't been alone I would have gone in to check it out.

There was one spot where you could literally stand underneath the train tracks - would have been a cool way to see a train.

But my favorite was this wall with its "graffiti" made with a pencil.  Tagging has reached Southeast KY.

I considered several great train songs for today's post - but in the end could pass up an opportunity to share a little Loretta Lynn.  I thought about going old school, because I do love old school Loretta, but instead decided her more recent duet with Jack Black was just the thing.  Could have to do with the fact that I'm feeling a little homesick for the Pacific Northwest after watching a certain movie last week.



I thought I was done with this post, but then I saw a link to Johnny Cash's "God's Gonna Cut You Down, the exact song the Coal Miner's Jamboree was broadcasting while I took my photos.

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