![]() Quietly, over the years, Mohawk has also equipped us with the kind of things we need to get work done: a new pop-up tent for festivals, another box of water-monitoring supplies, t-shirts for our youth summit, fruit trees, composters – and just this fall, a whole passel of shovels and related gear for our tree planting initiatives. As a result, an additional 663 native trees are now tucked in for years of beauty, being, and service. This past month Boxerwood helped facilitate two big tree-planting projects. At Boxerwood we are always striving to be good stewards of these gifts. Yes, we’re crowing about it! We’d be hard pressed to find better gifts, or gifts more generously given, than those that come from the Earth. It was our honor and delight to bring joy to so many people attending the Lexington Christmas parade with our entry, “Winter Windsong.” What’s the secret for building such an enchanting parade floats? A dash of creativity, a sprinkle of ingenuity, and a whole HEAP of help from our community. On the first day of our club, after we planted the winter peas, we stood in a circle around our freshly planted patch and gave the peas kind words of encouragement to start them on their growing journey. Their commitment to renewable energy, which includes use of a wind turbine, will result in a projected 943,526 pounds LESS CO being dispersed into the environment in 2020.Īs Boxerwood moves toward having our own solar array installation and always keeping our watershed conservation practices and education front and center, it is heartening to work with partners like DBB.Įvery meeting has been a joy. DBB has also added a rooftop solar array which produces 16% of the production brewery’s electricity. The company’s commitment to reducing their environmental footprint by reducing consumption of water in production is one of their 3 year goal initiatives. Altogether, the events and menu item proceeds raised over $4000 for Boxerwood.ĭevils Backbone Brewing Company is an honored partner not only through financial support, but also in practice. Danelle “Dizzle” Clark, also initiated hosting Boxerwood Bingo one cold February evening, where much fun and merriment was had by all. continue reading on Outpost Team, headed up by the Corporate Social Responsibility Manager, Elizabeth Tual and Tap Room General Manager, E. All the good land had already been purchased in the East.” “People wanted the opportunity to own their own land. “The Natchez Trace became the ‘Cradle of Southern Culture,’ where people from the Northeast and East Coast started out heading further southwest to find homes,” Turnbow said. (pronounced “Easy”) and his younger brother, David, find as the “men of the family” they have to quickly learn survival skills to provide for their mother and the community of people with whom they travel the dangerous route. ![]() Many influential people came through the Williamson County area on their way to New Orleans and other Southern towns, Turnbow said. In 1809, the southwest frontier offered land and possibilities. This is an early period of our history - a missing part the early history of Franklin.” “At that time, it started at Granny White, and the Indian Trail ran through Franklin to Leiper’s Fork at Garrison Creek and continued southwest from there. “The Natchez Trace had several different trails and roads,” Turnbow said. Meanwhile, the boys had a number of encounters, adventures and learned more about the wilderness they were about to enter. ![]() Top Reviews of Devils Backbone Brewing Company. See restaurant menus, reviews, ratings, phone number, address, hours, photos and maps. Perkins and her boys traveled down the Cumberland River to Nashville, where they disembarked and the boys experienced the first of many new adventures.Īfter meeting other families heading for the Natchez Trace and a new life, they joined their wagons and continued on to Franklin, staying at Whites Tavern on Margin Street - where the Old, Old Jail, aka the McConnell House, is now located - and waited for a few more families to join them. View the menu for Devils Backbone Brewing Company and restaurants in Roseland, VA. In his first children’s book, “Fighting the Devil’s Backbone The Shadow of E.Z.’s Fear,” Turnbow brings that piece of history to life with tales of “cutthroat” bandits, Indian raids and spies who terrorized those traveling along the Natchez Trace, better known as the “Devil’s Backbone.” It was one of the first highways built by the federal government. Just eight years earlier, in 1801, President Thomas Jefferson sent soldiers to convert the Natchez Trace, an old Indian trail running from Nashville to the busy seaport of Natchez, Mississippi, into a wagon highway. “Imagine the courage that took,” said Tony Turnbow, a Williamson County attorney turned historian and author. ![]() Read the full article on .Ī widow with two sons and no family to help her, Sarah Perkins faced a bleak future remaining in Pennsylvania with her boys in 1809, so she got them passage on a keelboat to Nashville.įrom there, they would take the Natchez Trace, which ran from Nashville to Natchez, Mississippi and the southwest Mississippi frontier. ![]()
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