![]() ![]() At Tennessee Alabama fireworks, Jasper, TN. The other items, especially the Uncle Tom and Mammie figurines, and the Mammie teapot, are hard to look at. The most entertaining, in a vile way, was the putatively Native American dreamcatcher with a Confederate flag in the middle. This last visit, I paid a bit more attention to what was actually in the store. In fact, I thought this shit was mostly in museums or dusty old documentaries. I’ve always bought fireworks at this shop, and noted that it’s one of a declining number of places that can get away with selling blatantly racist items. Coming from Chattanooga, the westbound lanes curve right, and the eastbound lanes left, to reveal in the middle a huge marquee: ![]() And, most of all, I know an amazing fireworks store where they sell racist tchotchkes and memorabilia.Īll the little racist caricatures, lined up in a row at Tennessee-Alabama fireworks, Jasper, TN.Īt Jasper, before I-24 dips briefly into Alabama, near lake, the eastbound and westbound travel lanes of the divided highway diverge by an unusually large distance. ![]() I know where I might get good food, coffee, or cheap gas. All of these things I have done for the sake of taking care of family. In the three years before that, I did a much longer drive from Normal, IL, that also put me on 24 from Nashville to Atlanta. I have driven between Nashville, TN and Atlanta, GA at least once a month, on average, since I moved to Nashville in 2009. From Chattanooga, I-75 stretches southward into the sprawl of the ten-county metropolitan Atlanta area, the residents of which are largely unable to list all ten counties. This road, I-24, continues then on over hills and plateaus and lakes to Chattanooga. The road climbs about thirty miles to Monteagle: from there, if the weather is good, you can look down in either direction upon Tennessee’s finest, who enforce a low 55 miles-per-hour speed limit both directions up the hill. Then there is a place in Manchester where they’ve widened the road to accommodate the yearly music festival there. Before the hills, there are suburbs all the way to Murfreesboro. There is a lovely road that leads out of Nashville and into the hills. ![]()
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