To remember the Grove Park Inn

  This is the last of our visit to the Omni Grove Park Inn. I will have the memories for many years to come.

This trio of friends has another day trip planned again soon!

Today's Quote:

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck. 

-Guy de Maupassant, short story writer and novelist (5 Aug 1850-1893)

Early Grove Park Inn Visitors

 Right inside the lobby (which is huge, including a nice big fire in one of the two fireplaces)...tucked in a corner is this antique car, with this sign below.

"Just after the Inn opened in 1913, a ragtag group of notable individuals, calling themselves the Vagabonds, began a summer tradition of stopping at the Grove Park Inn on their way to the Great Smoky Mountains. This group consisted of inventors Thomas A. Edison, Henry Ford, and Harvey Firestone, all of whom reveled in the beauty of this area and shared a genuine  love of camping and the great outdoors. The Vagabonds took to the mountains in a vehicle much like this one, a Tin Lizzy or  Ford Model "T" outfitted to carry the food and enough gear to set up the camp with all the comforts [of] their celebrity homes."

 

  

A photo from the Grove Park Inn site on internet...showing the big fireplace with a fire.

Today's quote:

The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself. 

-Robert Green Ingersoll, lawyer and orator (11 Aug 1833-1899)

Joyful Sharing

 

My friends are agreeable towards my taking their photos...

And I sometimes grab a selfie of myself. We were mostly outside for this visit, though the staff were wearing their masks. I had lost mine somehow before lunch...so just hoped everyone in the small shop were not carriers. Nor myself of course.

Today's quote:

 "Between two evils, I like to pick the one I haven't tried before,” and "I used to be Snow White, but I drifted."

- Mae West

Grove Park Inn

 See today's "When I Was 69" post about a birthday celebrated 2 years later...thanks to Covid! I'll add the link HERE.