John Wayne, the Hollywood legend who starred in dozens of films, is directly tied to Pine Bluff, Tennessee. The story is quite amazing, but first, we need a quick overview…
This map from the Kentucky Department of Highways shows land owners and businesses on the main road in Birmingham, Ky.
We’ve always enjoyed experiencing and seeing the oddities of the Four Rivers region. That’s why this site, Four Rivers Explorer, exists. But before we began this site, we had a section of our main tourism site, Explore Kentucky Lake, that was dedicated to the unusual and lesser-known aspects of our area. We called the section “Explorations”.
My husband and I had the opportunity to get away for the afternoon without our small children. We set out for an exciting exploration of an area we had not had many opportunities to investigate: Camden, Tenn. We had heard that there was a wonderful place to view Kentucky Lake at an overlook called Pilot Knob. Obviously, this was right up our alley. What we didn’t know was that the Tennessee River Folklife Center was located nearby.
