Boonville, North Carolina
I've been here two days. Not easy finding Internet service and it's even harder to find a place to stay. Boonville, NC, population 1128, has no lodging. I spent the night at the Yadkin Inn (about 10 miles out of town) with a number of shady characters outside my door. Sleeping with one eye open is not as cool as it sounds.
P.S. Boonville, North Carolina is a dry (NO BEER!) town. What?!
P.S. Boonville, North Carolina is a dry (NO BEER!) town. What?!
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posted by Timothy Briner at
1:55 PM
8 Comments:
Dry town? Uh, dude, I might not come down to visit...
hahahahha.....it's looks like an evironmental rehab for you! Sucky
Boonville, MO misses you dude, and WJ's is in need of good company.
BLW
We do have wine in town and you only have to drive a couple of miles to find beer, just over the river but we are truly a small town. It is a very nice place to live!
It is a very nice place! I do agree. I am very fond of Trish's Restaurant. Please come by and say hi. I'm there almost every morning...after I wake up in your beautiful park.
p.s. I did find beer! Thank you.
Tim, Welcome to Boonville...Southern-Style. My family and I have lived here for almost 4 years and we love Boonville. Our Boonville is linked to one Daniel Boone. Ask someone at Trishs' to tell you about the tree under which Boone was known to camp. You should camp there to maximize your experience here. It is on private property but if you were to "know" the Mayor or somthing.....
So what's to do on Smithtown Road after 10 at night????
Yep good ole B-ville, NC is dry. In fact until very recently the whole county was dry. That's because we're all a bunch of closeted alcoholics. "Any Baptists in the crowd? Well drink up! Don't matter what they dunk ya in long as ya go under. Unlike the Catholics don't matter what ya do long as ya tell somebody!" -- Tim Wilson I don't know if any one appreciates the weird little hole that is Boonville as much as I do. The worst traffic you will ever encounter is either a cow in the road or a tractor going through town at half the speed of smell.
My favourite story to tell people about my home town goes a little something like this:
My grandparents once had a neighbour who kept a few chickens as pets. Well when the neighbour moved away they failed to take the chickens with them. So the chickens took to roosting in another neighbour's yard and she fed them. Problem was the chickens often wandered into my grandparent's yard. And if you know any thing about birds they mostly do two things: eat and poop. And that's just what they did. All over my grandparent's lawn, driveway, sidewalk and flowerbeds. They pecked the tomato garden to death and scattered the pine needles my grandparents used for landscaping every where. So my grandfather took to shooting at them to scare them off. I came home from college one weekend and was standing in the kitchen with my grandma when I see grandaddy go out the back door in a trot with the 22 in his hands. "He must be after those blame chickens again" grandma and I figured. So we continued our conversation and I happened to look out the kitchen window into the driveway and there stands grandaddy with the 22 over his arm talking to one of the town police. I said "Well they're gonna write him a citation for breaking the town ordinance against discharging a fire arm inside city limits." Well about that time grandaddy comes in puts the gun up and sits down in the recliner and starts flippin channels. Grandma and I look at each other and then look back at him. "Grandaddy what did the police man want?" "Oh he just wanted to talk to me." "About what?" My grandfather then proceded to tell me that the police man had come to warn him about the aforementioned town ordinace. My grandfather replied that he was aware of it and explained is plight to the police officer. The police man then steps across the street to his squad car and upon his return produces a bullet and says "Here, this kind makes less noise."
Now if that isn't aiding and abetting I don't know what is!
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