Visiting London - Tuesday

Leaving Shelbyville we struck back towards our friends in Raccoon Valley, near Heiskell, near Powell, near Knoxville, TN.
En route we wanted to visit the Cumberland Falls, so planned to stop at Levi Jackson State Park, disappointingly, since it is such a good dance, Levi Jackson was only a State Governor, though there may be more to find out. The weather was cloudy and not very warm. The park is quite close to the Cumberland Falls and just outside the town of London! We found out that London was famous for its Chicken Festival and we had only missed it by a couple of days. Well we are learning that you can’t do everything.
We also found out that the reason it has the Chicken Festival is that London is right near Corbin, which is where Mr and Mrs Harland Sanders lived and worked. They owned the local gas station, which like a lot of gas stations, wanted to offer truck drivers more, so they would buy gas from them. He and his wife started to make snacks to sell, and then opened a café. Their most popular item was their southern fried chicken, for which people came from miles around to eat. His success was based on a hardworking business ethic which relied on the concept that if you were the best you would succeed. The success of the café enabled him to build a motel. He also developed the food side of the business and because he used advanced industrialised methods was able to transfer his quality items to other café’s. After returning from the second world war, where he was in charge of eight restaurants somewhere in Washington State, he sold his little empire and moved to Louisville and started his chain of restaurants which became Kentucky Fried Chicken.
We visited The Cumberland Falls, which are indeed a wonderful sight. They are called the Niagara falls Of The South. They drop 57 feet and are 125 feet across. We had a lovely time just looking at the falls in the lovely countryside.
We finished the day by stopping at The Sanders Café in Corbin to have a KFC meal in the place they were invented.