Birds & Blooms festival at the Old Russell County Courthouse
Kayla knows more than
anyone I've ever met about having fun close to home and on a budget.
She and baby D (face hidden for legal reasons) spirited me away to the
Copper Creek Birds and Blooms Festival on Saturday. We dipped candles,
won free rain barrels, and generally had a ball.
The event is located at the
Old Russell County Courthouse, which I'd driven past approximately a
million times without stopping. Although small, the historic area is
well worth a visit if you're already in the area.
Our tour guide explained
that the courthouse (active in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth
centuries) was important for land disputes, with criminal cases being
tried down the road in Abingdon. Still, criminals were often brought to
this courthouse, where they were held for the day in the basement cell
then housed by the judge's family at night. Gives a whole new meaning
to taking your work home with you....
(The second picture in
this post, I know, isn't particularly historic even though it graces
one of the upstairs walls in the courthouse. But I'm including the
print for my mother since the shepherdess reminds me of the paintings
hanging in her mother's upstairs hallway when I was a child.)
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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