----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2002 10:46 AM Subject: [TNMACON] Red Boiling Springs > I recently became aware of a book titled, "History of Red Boiling Springs, > Tennessee." Can anyone tell me how I might obtain a copy of it? My > grandmother was a school teacher and I can remember as a small boy riding > with her on weekends from Tompkinsville, Kentucky to Red Boiling Springs, > Tenn. to obtain jars of water from the springs there. My grandmother would > drink one glass of this water everyday. I can also remember as a young boy, > my mother and aunt taking my siblings, cousins and me to a swimming pool > there. I had not been back to Red Boiling Springs for probably 25 years until > last year when visiting my parents in Kentucky, we decided to drive there. > The swimming pool was gone but some of the grand old hotels were still there. > I pumped one of the old wells and forced myself to drink some of the water to > remember how much I had disliked it. The smell of the sulphur reminded me of > the inside of my grandmother's refrigerator in the 1960s. I have nothing but > good memories of Red Boiling Springs and would like to find the book. I'll > pass though on any samples of the water. > Gary > > > ==== TNMACON Mailing List ==== > Shelta Shrum and Barbara Hutchinson want you to > <a href="http://www.tngennet.org/macon"> VISIT THE MACON COUNTY, TENNESSEE WEBPAGE!</A> > >