April 17, 2024
Today’s ventures will first take us to The Dulcimer Shoppe. This is another institution in Mountain View. Lyn McSpadden started making dulcimers in 1962. They still handcraft each dulcimer. In addition there are several types of dulcimers. Each will produce a different sound and is played differently. Was really neat to walk around and actually watch the crafting of the instrument. There were several dulcimers around so you could try them out. Some are more easily played than others. The hammer dulcimer is probably the most difficult and a strong piano background is helpful. We have a hammer dulcimer and a mountain dulcimer. These are McSpadden dulcimers that they put into our parlor as a marketing tool. We took them with us to have tuned and restrung. Very cool place. After The Dulcimer Shoppe we continued to our next stop, Mellon’s Country Store. It is an old general store. Reminded me of my childhood candy store in New Egypt, Rush Warwick’s. Had plenty of candy and other items for sale. The floors were wooden.
We continued our journey to Angler’s Restaurant. Stone County, our location, is a dry county. However just 15 minutes up the road is Angler’s and you can buy some alcohol there. That was our destination now. The weather was beautiful, so we dined out on the deck. Janey got a moonshine flight,. She was able to try 4 different moonshines. We had done something similar when we were in Nashville last year. We dropped Dennis off at their RV and Janey came back to our place to get some Iris blooms. Afterward, we said our “see ya laters” and Nancy took Janey home. I stayed home.
On her way back home as she was going through town, she saw smoke and lots of fire equipment. About a block from the Wildflower was a smoked BBQ restaurant, Kin Folks. We had not had a chance to eat there yet. And now we may never. It burned to the ground. The next edition of the local paper, Ledger had an article about it. That particular day, the owners allowed a potential buyer to run the operation for the day. As a former investigator, HHMMMM!??
