Comment: Loudon, TN (1998)

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Here are some comments which people sent in about Loudon, TN (1998)

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Wsherriw28 2003 Aug 27 Loudon, TN

I just found your website. I have lived in Loudon all of my life. I do agree that the scenery ( on the outskirts of town ) is very pretty. I grew up on a farm w/ beautiful rolling fields and old oak trees that seemed to almost touch the sky. While there are things to do in other areas of East TN, there is nothing to do in Loudon. It's one of those small towns that if you blinked while driving through, you would miss the whole thing. There's just not much to mention about Loudon besides the scenery. If you never came back no one could blame you.

Nothing to do in Loudon? Maybe it got tame after XvindictivechicX moved away?
A few days later, Wsherriw28 wrote a clarification:

It's me again. Ijust wanted to clarify some things about my previous statements about Loudon. XvindictivechicX (who I think I know, by the way) was right about one thing. Drinking And screwing around are very popular past-times in Loudon,especially for the teenage crowd. That's because there's NOTHING else to do. You went to visit family, aside from that, was there anything else in Loudon that you would travel across the country for? In your reply you mentioned you talked to the cows and looked at some construction(sounds like you're a wild and crazy guy from way back). Is that something you'd like to do more than once in your life? Or was that all you found to do in Loudon? Most people would choose the second reason, but after reading some of your other comments, it may be the first for you. But hey, if you enjoyed it, who am I to judge? Aside from the power lines and the dead tree, it doesn't sound like you saw much in Loudon anyway.(not there's much to see anyway) You talked more about Oak Ridge and the lack of bookstores in Knoxville.(by the way if you do come back you really should go to a UT football game. I'm not a big football fan,but you can always sit back and make fun of the die-hard fans who make complete asses out of themselves.) I guess that's all I've got to say for now, if anything else comes to mind I'll let you know.(I'm sure you'll be looking forward to it)

I would be glad to look at cows and construction again, but would not fly across the country just to do so.

 
XvindictivechicX 2003 Jul 13 Loudon Tn

I use to live in Loudon, and you may think its a small town where nothing is happening and the outskirts are plain and boring but you're wrong. We partied and drank. We had sex and got ripped on them "outskirts" I had my best time and my worst times there. so think what you want but you lay there on your portch one time and watch the sun go down over the hill and you'll love it too.

Usually I'm kind of annoyed at people who think that my travelog disrespects their hometown, but I liked this mail.

 
Leigh Ann Bright 2001 Aug 08 Loudon TN

Hello, my name is Leigh Ann Bright, I read your version of Loudon. I disagree, Loudon is a wonderful place to live. People are friendly, respectful. The town is a beautiful place. I have traveled, I have seen other cities, and outskirts of cities. I would not live any where else in the world.

I wonder what we disagree about.

 
Dan Hosken 2001 Feb 22 Departures: Loudon, TN (1998)

Did a search on Betsy Houghton and came up with your post of her picture of TN. Skipped to Departures and vaguely recalled having read it. Corrections/comments follow.

The pictured lightning struck tree didn't die.

The page used to say the tree was dead, before uncle Dan corrected me.
It flourishes. Don't know why. We guess that our yard/house has been hit by lightning 3 times in the 4 years we've lived here. Our guess is based on the premature demise of various electrical devices, later commented upon by repairmen as "lightning got it". Is this frequency due to the tall trees or the tall metal structures?

More importantly, your bookstore comments seem far off the mark. Knoxville has at least one Borders and one Barnes & Noble, 2 B Daltons, 2 Waldenbooks plus another 20 + independents. Failure to see a bookstore while visiting might be attributed to failure to look in the Yellow Pages or otherwise ask.

Knoxville is home to University of Tennessee. Where do you suppose all those football players and their fans get their reading material? :)

Dan Hosken, near Knoxville, Tennessee, USA

 
Betsy Houghton 1999 Mar 13 Loudon, TN

This picture was carefully framed at the cul de sac on Dan and Jean's road to show the rural TN landscape and not reveal those wires overhead.

I am another Hosken cousin who has enjoyed your postings.

Cousin Betsy's obviously a better photographer than I am.

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