SquirrelQueen's Acorn Stash Traditional Cache
SquirrelQueen's Acorn Stash
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The cache is located at Grinders Switch. There is no need to cross the fence or enter the property. As this cache was placed by a squirrel it contains what else--ACORNS! If you take one remember squirrels like shiny things!
The picture was taken at N 35' 47.547, W 87' 29.092, due to its proximity to the train tracks, the cache has been located down the road at the back gated entrance to the fair grounds. The area is very busy the last week of August due to the County Fair. Also busy the first weekend in October due to the National Banana Pudding Festival. Please go by and see the train depot and barn while you are in the vicinity.
Minnie Pearl is Centerville's most famous citizen. This cache is located at the site of her childhood home in Grinders Switch. The area is now owned by the county, and is used as a fair grounds, and agricultural center. It is not open to the public unless an event is scheduled. All that remains of the original buildings is a barn. A train depot was moved there in the late 1980's.
Here is an excerpted bio of Minnie Pearl:
Sarah Ophelia Colley Cannon (October 25, 1912 - March 4, 1996), known professionally as Minnie Pearl, was a country comedienne who appeared at the Grand Ole Opry for more than 50 years (from 1940 to 1991) and on the television show Hee Haw from 1969 to 1991.
Sarah Colley was born in Centerville, in Hickman County, Tennessee, about 50 miles southwest of Nashville. She was the youngest of the five daughters of a prosperous lumberman in Centerville. Her first stage performance as Minnie Pearl was in 1939 in Aiken, South Carolina. The following year, executives from Nashville radio station WSM-AM saw her perform at a bankers' convention in Centerville and gave her an opportunity to appear on the Grand Ole Opry on November 30, 1940. The success of her debut on the show began an association with the Grand Ole Opry that continued for more than 50 years.
Pearl's comedy was gentle satire of rural Southern culture, often called "hillbilly" culture. Pearl always dressed in styleless "down home" dresses and wore a hat with a price tag hanging from it, displaying the price of $1.98. Pearl's comic material derived heavily from her hometown of Centerville, which in her act she called Grinder's Switch. Grinder's Switch is a community just outside of Centerville that consisted of little more than a railroad switch. Those who knew her recognized that the characters were largely based on real residents of Centerville. So much traffic resulted from fans and tourists looking for Grinder's Switch that the Hickman County Highway Department eventually changed the designation on the "Grinder's Switch" road sign to "Hickman Springs Road."
Cannon portrayed Minnie Pearl for many years on television, first on ABC-TV's Ozark Jubilee in the late 1950s; then on the long-running television series Hee Haw, both on CBS-TV and the subsequent syndicated version. Her last regular performances on national television were on Ralph Emery's Nashville Now country-music talk show on the former Nashville Network cable channel. Cannon made a cameo appearance in the film Coal Miner's Daughter, in which she appears at the Opry as her Minnie Pearl character.
Cannon suffered a serious stroke in June 1991, bringing her performing career to an end. After the stroke she resided in a Nashville nursing home. Her death on March 4, 1996, at the age of 83, was attributed to complications from another stroke. She is buried at Mt. Hope Cemetery in Franklin, Tennessee.
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