Monday, June 6, 2011

These Kids are Tough

It's almost 5:00 in the afternoon and has cooled down to 92 degrees - I am being serenaded by a high school marching band out practicing on the school soccer field that abuts our back yard. The drum corps has been out almost every day for the last week, and the last 3 days the brass has joined them. Football games will start the first week of August when the temperatures soar into the 100s. Call me an overprotective mom, but I think it's insane. Absolutely nutz.

Friday night, Downtown Franklin. I had to pinch myself because it was almost surreal.  There were 3 jumbo-trons (30ft x 20 ft.); one set up at the west end of Main Street, on 3rd St.N and 4th St. S, screening King Kong, Wizard of Oz, and Swing Time. On the East end of Main Street by the Confederate Memorial there was a stage with a 3-piece jazz ensemble providing the music for a swing dance (the guy sounded like Harry Connick Jr.) and there were thousands of people celebrating...the grand re-opening of the Franklin Theatre (circa 1938). After being mothballed for 4 years and then undergoing an $8.7 million dollar renovation, it is up and open for business again. The tickets for the first movie, Gone with the Wind, sold out within an hour. Bruce and I have tickets for a movie on Wednesday night. Can't wait to see the inside. Mike Wolfe (of American Pickers fame, originally from LeClaire IA, now a resident of Leipers Fork just up the road) found the display board for the lobby. This truly is an amazing place!

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