The 2011 East TN Germanna Reunion was held 9, 10, and 11 September, at the Philadelphia Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Washington Co., TN. Including family members and speakers, there were 32 attendees from CA, GA, MD, MO, NC, OK, SC, TM. VA. The Germanna, and related families, represented at the Reunion were: BAILEY, BITNER, BRIGHT (BRECHT), BROYLES, BURGNER, FELLERS/FILLERS/G'FELLERS, HAMMER, GANN, GUIN/GUINN, LAYMAN, MARTIN (MERTEN), PAINTER (BENDER), PATTON, PRATHER, SEATON, SNAPP, WALTER/WALTERS, WEAVER (WEBER), WILHOIT/WILLHOIT/WILHITE, & YAGER/YEAGER. (And I've probably left out a bunch. We just didn't have time to get into a detailed, extended genealogy of those present.) Of course, other Germanna families were represented through their marriages to BROYLES and WILHITE/WILHOIT: CARPENTER (ZIMMERMAN), CRISLER, FLESHMAN (FLEISCHMANN), KLUG, & SCHÖNE, to name some. We had presentations by: Virginia Nuta, "Why the Germanna Colonists Left Germany, and Why They Left Virginia"; by Betty Jane Hylton, "Broylesville"; and by Jim Albin, "Photos from the Germanna Foundation Tours of Germany". Of course I also talked a lot about everything. (Gotta learn to shut up once in a while!) We toured the old Broylesville community and were allowed to tour the home of Adam Alexander BROYLES, Jr., built c.1840. Adam, Jr., was the son of the founder of Broylesville, who built the Broylesville Mercantile and Broylesville Inn where 3 Presidents stayed. There was a fascinating story told at the home by Jerry Honeycutt a local artist and historian. He has detailed knowledge of the Adam Alexander BROYLES home, and about the general history of Broylesville, for anyone descended from this line which started out in NC as BRILES. It is getting difficult anymore to hold the Reunion to just Germanna descendants. I think in the future we may follow the Germanna Research Group's lead and have the Reunion for descendants of ALL Germans, those from Madison and Culpeper, Counties, VA, and those latecomers who came from PA down through the Shenandoah Valley on the "Great Wagon Road". I know we honor mostly our Germanna ancestors, but those "other" Germans are ancestors too. (And let us not forget those British settlers who married into all those German families in Tennessee.) What does anyone think about making the East TN Reunion for ALL early Germans? Please let me know. Regards, Sarge (P.S. I'm going to update the Reunion page and the Broylesville page on my website, later.) My Germanna Database at Rootsweb: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=germanna My Germanna Website at Rootsweb: http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~george/index.html