Rudy and the rest--especially the music lovers,
Ijams is celebrating with music this Saturday--sounds like Grand Funk's grandkids to me?:
http://www.ijams.org/events/show/546Ijams is great place to visit for kids and adults. Nature trails and educational exhibits. They have done everything very well so far and are planning to annex the Ross Marble Quarry soon in a big expansion.
Ijams Nature Center is celebrating 100-years of the Ijams nature park. My longest friend (1961), George, is the grandson of H.P. and Alice Ijams who bought the Ijams property as a home and practiced conservation of nature in Knoxville long before it was cool. George is also the grandson of Kern's Bread founder, Peter Kern. He has been a great friend although he is a little cheap as I so often remind him.
His great uncle, Edwin Ijams, I think he was a doctor, was UT's first quarterback back in 1892. I did not know it, but another great uncle of the Ijams family married the daughter of Colonel Townsend, who ran the Little River Land Company and for whom Townsend is named. He worked for his daddy-in-law. George's father, Albert, was as fine and funny a person as I have ever met. He used to tell me about attending UT football games when they played at Cumberland next to the Student Center. He remembered them kicking the ball out on Cumberland after scores.
I doubt I will jamb or fest or whatever you do, because I attended the symphony there last fall and that should meet my quota.
