"The Ol' Pea-Picker" Multi-Cache
uetvol: We checked this one today and decided it needed to be archived. With a recent hip replacement and due to other things, we decided it was not worth the potential injury to look for this one. We have people tell us in the past it was missing but when we checked it, there is was. I want to thank a good friend of mine who, many years ago, helped us on this one, but it is time to go. So long old Ernie "The Ol' Pea-Picker" Ford.
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This multi-cache is hidden off Tennessee Erie Ford Parkway (394). There will be ample parking so pull off the road (off hard surface) well out of danger.
This cache is named after a nickname coined by Bristol’s own Ernie Ford, better known as “Tennessee Ernie Ford” for whom this parkway is named. Born in Bristol, Tennessee, Ford began his radio career as an announcer at local radio station WOPI in Bristol. Ford left the station to pursue classical music and voice at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music in Ohio. First Lieutenant Ford served in World War II as the bombardier on a B-29 Superfortress flying missions over Japan. After the war, Ford worked at radio stations in California often serving as host to early morning country music disc jockey programs. He differentiated himself, by creating the personality of “Tennessee Ernie” a wild, madcap exaggerated hillbilly.
In 1956, Ford had his own prime-time variety program, “The Ford Show” which ran on NBC television till 1961. Ernie earned the nickname “The Ol” Pea-Picker” due to his catch-phrase, “Bless your pea-pickin’ heart!” He began using the term during his disc jockey days on KXLA radio station in Pasadena California.
It was in 1955 that Ford recorded a song “Sixteen Ton” written by Merle Travis. The song spent ten weeks at number one on the country charts and eight weeks at number one on the pop charts, and made Ford a crossover star. This song became Ford’s ‘signature song.’ In 1956 he released “Hymns”, his first gospelmusic album, which remained on Billboard’s Top Album charts for 277 consecutive weeks; his album “Great Gospel Songs” won a Grammy Award in 1964.
The cords will take you to the first stage of this two stage cache. You will need to BYOP to sign this cache.
In this part of the south you should be on the lookout at all times for: poison plants, green briers, snakes, black bears, bees, and other critters.
Please re-hide this cache just as it was found so others can enjoy. Thanks!
FTF Honors go to : edepew
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