Day 2 – Sunday, March 12

Departure from Winchester, Virginia, bright and early at 9:00 am. Spring officially started at 11:00 with the first Forsythia bush in bloom - followed shortly by Bradford Pears - beautiful white blossoms. In amongst the rolling hills of Virginia and Tennessee, we came across the first clue that we were in “Nashville country” as we stopped for a photo op near a super-sized version of a guitar.

Arrived at LaFolette at 5:00 pm and met our host, Keith, who took along a winding road to Indian River Marina.

After a quick settling in, we all donned our black T-shirts (KUC and WUC - Building Community) and proceeded to the LaFollette United Methodist Church, where pizza and sweets were served.

We all had a chance to meet Melinda and Kelly Lambert, the owners of the new house. The youth group from the Church led a short service of singing and conversation.

A short meeting followed to assign jobs for tomorrow, starting with siding and painting at the Habitat for Humanity site (15 folks), painting at REACH, a local Rural Public Health facility, teaching about Canada at a local school, and odd jobs at the Historical Society. Everyone will be gainfully employed for the day.

Tomorrow night we will be invited to take a quick tour of part of Norris Lake, one of the first water reservoirs formed in this area being 75 miles long and 6 miles wide, so we will only be seeing a small part of it.
-Peggy

Blog - Day 3