Monday, July 20, 2009
Congress / Woods Please Boycott Pigeon Forge
Posted by Jeff Woods on Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 9:09 AM
"I understand their feelings. But I have feelings, too. And my feelings are that millions of people come to Tennessee to see the beauty of the mountaintops and not to see mountains whose tops have been blown off with the waste dumped in our streams -- which is all I am trying to stop."
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Pigeon Forge is ugly and tacky and I avoid it like the plague, but it is the only employment possibility for much of the rural East TN population. Would you prefer stinky factories instead?
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Yeah, let's put the folks in Sevier County back in the woods where they belong. Kill their main industry and employment source. They can go back to shooting their dinner and trapping their winter coats.
Maybe you should ask them how they feel about the tourist industry in THEIR town.
Why are the only two choices Tacky Tourist Hell or Defaced, Decapitated Natural Beauty? Isn't there a way to improve and restore Pigeon Forge to some of its original appeal and quaintness without completely killing the tourist industry there or blowing the tops off mountains?
Yes, come to the much flatter and easier to walk mountains of Kentucky and West Virginia. If wildlife scares you near Pigeon Forge, you'll love the newly graveled vistas God left full of coal for a reason in Kentucky and West Virginia. 'Narry a bear to be seen' is what Grandma will say ... with a smile.
George says:
Why are the only two choices Tacky Tourist Hell or Defaced, Decapitated Natural Beauty? Isn't there a way to improve and restore Pigeon Forge to some of its original appeal and quaintness without completely killing the tourist industry there or blowing the tops off mountains?
Short of bulldozing about a zillion motels, buffet restaurants and outlet malls, no.
Pigeon Forge is EXACTLY what generations of tourist have made it. Businesses in Pigeon Forge don't force anything on anyone, they give people what they ask for. You are the ones who ask for fudge, funnel cakes, fried oreos, fried anything. your the ones who come and keep these tacky tourist traps running. if you all came and wanted classical music, plays, and culture, that's what we'd give you.
just remember to condemn yourselves while your condemning my home, and what YOU'VE made of it.
And just to put the coal miner thing into perspective, the paper the other day said theres around 80,000 miner in the country.
8,000,000 people a year come through gatlinburg and pigeon forge.
if ALL the miners stay away, that would be a less than 1% drop in our business, because not all 80K are going to come here anyway.
So go ahead and boycott us, make a smaller statistical difference they allow for in surveys anyway
Get ready, Pigeon Forge. The Smoky Mountain Jam is headed your way. The Jam, who spent last season as the Knoxville Thunderbolts, are close to finalizing a deal to play the 2009-10 American Basketball Association season in Pigeon Forge, probably at Pigeon Forge High School.
August 2009
1-8 Smoky Mountain Tunes and Tales. Call 1-800-568-4748 for more info.
1 George Jones in Concert. Country Tonite Theater; For More Information call 1-800-792-4308 or visit www.firstclassconcerts.com
1-31 Celebrate Freedom! - Discounts for military - more info
6-9 Kustoms of America car show at Smokies Stadium. Call 865.286.2300 for more info.
7-9 Fourth Annual Sales Tax Holiday - more info
14-15 5th Annual StringTime in the Smokies, a celebration of bluegrass and traditional music. Patriot Park; For more information call (865)429-7350 -Pigeon Forge, TN.
21 Ray Price in Concert. Country Tonite Theater; For More Information call 1-800-792-4308 or visit www.firstclassconcerts.com
