Day 2 (Sunday, June 5, 2005), Western North Carolina to Southern Illinois
    
 
 
Breaking camp, near Asheville...
 
 
Asheville, North Carolina...
       
 
 
 
 
Westward across the Great Smoky Mountains of North Carolina...
 
     
 
 
Entering Tennessee...
 
 
Proceeding across Tennessee, through Knoxville...
 
 
Roane County...
     
 
 
Proceeding across the Tennessee Valley, toward Nashville...
 
 
Nashville...
       
 
       
 
       
 
       
 
 
 
 
 
Kentucky... handsome countryside, fine old barns...
 
       
 
   
 
 
 
The Jefferson Davis Monument, at Fairview, Kentucky...
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Davis_State_Historic_Site
 
       
 
www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/KYFAIdavismonument.html
"At 351 feet tall, the Jefferson Davis Monument is the largest [unreinforced] concrete obelisk in the world and the fifth tallest monument in the United States. The top four are St. Louis's Gateway Arch, 630 feet tall; San Jacinto (Texas) Monument, 570 feet (built to the peoples who created an independent country -- just like the Confederates); the Washington Monument, 555 feet; and the Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial at Put in Bay, Ohio, which, at 352 feet, nudges its way past the Davis obelisk by a mere extra 12 inches."
 
         
 
 
 
How many graduates of U.S. public schools even know that this great monument exists?
 
   
On through southern Kentucky and across the Ohio River, into Illinois...