Honest John's gift shop, restaurant and gas station was on Bristol Highway. It was built by cabinetmaker John Barker who built the Indian himself. He later moved to Stone Drive when the state widened the road and widened him out of business. The Big Indian now stands outside Pratt's Barbecue.
A search engine company has analyzed its database of 300 million items and concluded that fewer significant events occurred on April 11, 1954 than any other day in modern history (since 1900).
Was it just as boring in Kingsport? Here's the next day's paper, which was pretty boring....
Vince Staten is the author of fifteen books, including "Did Monkeys Invent the Monkey Wrench," "Can You Trust a Tomato in January," "Ol' Diz: A Biography of Dizzy Dean," and the barbecue travel guide, "Real Barbecue." He has been a columnist for the New York Daily News, the Louisville Courier-Journal, the Dayton Daily News and the Kingsport Times News.