Visit To Book Store

Crossville, Tennessee

Weather: low 59 degrees, high 76 degrees, partly cloudy

This is a picture of our site at the RV park where we're staying while in Crossville, Tennessee.

After a leisurely start to the morning (it feels good to be able to write that), we visited a used book store in Crossville. As I have mentioned before, we like to read. Whenever possible, we use public libraries to check out books and DVDs. Since we don't have that option here, we decided to see what we could find at the used book store. What a pleasant surprise we found when we walked inside. Thousands of books for sale, including the types we like most. With a quick walk through the store, we found several we haven't read before, which we bought. An interesting thing to us was that the hard cover books were not any more expensive than the paper backs. The most we paid per book was $1.00, which is a bargain. I can see us going back there.


The visit to the book store wore us out (joke), so we returned home to rest. In the afternoon, I checked out some of the other RV parks in the area. Only one of them holds any interest for me after looking at where they were and what they had to offer. We'll check out a couple more tomorrow, including Cumberland Mountain State Park.

I was talking to one of the camp hosts today about the weather, and he said that the weather is the coolest he has ever seen for July 4. We're just glad to see some weather that's not stifling, like it was in Tuscaloosa. We could stand this all year.

The Palace Theatre has been called The Jewel of Main Street in Crossville. It opened in November of 1938, and was closed in 1978 when a new twin theatre opened. After it closed, it slowly deteriorated until a group of people began pushing for the facility to be renovated in recognition of it's architecture and place in Crossville's history. At this time, the theatre is used for concerts and classic movies, as well as other events.

More later, be safe.

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