Bristol Tennessee/Virginia Chamber of Commerce

• Location: The Centre, One Centre Drive
  Bristol
• Date: 12-05-2010
  12-05-2010

Description

Among the topics that continue to increase in interest throughout the region would include the antiquarian study of the early settlers to the Holston Region that participated in one of the definitive battles of the Revolution, the battle of Kings Mountain.  It was for the preservation of their home and family that men of this region pursued a formidable army of British, which conflict has been credited as the turning point of the war.  Today there is an immense interest in the men, true American patriots, and the days leading up to the over-mountain trek to Kings Mountain.

In recognition of the true American spirit of the Holston region, the Bristol Historical Association is presenting writer and storyteller Randell Jones as guest speaker at their annual Christmas Luncheon on Sunday, December 5, at the Centre in Bristol Tennessee.  The buffet luncheon begins at 12:30pm.  Reservations are $25 per person and will be received through November 25.  The general public is cordially invited to attend.

Randell Jones is an award winning author and past president of the Overmountain Victory Trail Association and consultant to the Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail.  His new release, Before They Were Heroes at King’s Mountain, detail the events leading up to one of the Revolutions epic battles.  From the settler’s learning fighting skills from the Shawnees and the Cherokees, the events of Lord Dunmore’s War in 1774 and harassment levied again the Holston Settlements by the advancing British Legion, setting the stage for conflict in the Carolina piedmont.  Jones also authored In the Footsteps of Daniel Boone, which received the 2006 Willie Parker Peace History Book Award from the North Carolina Society of Historians.  Another recent release was In the Footsteps of Davy Crockett in 2006.  His Bristol presentation will detail events and the men and women that took center stage in the North Holston Settlement, including accounts of William Campbell, Isaac Shelby, John Sevier and other backwoods military leaders of the day.

The Christmas Luncheon is an annual observance of the holiday.  Reservations may be made by mailing a check for $25.00 per person to the Bristol Historical Association, attention Roxann Coulthard, 140 Peachtree Circle, Bristol Virginia 24201.  Reservations will be received through November 25.