Bell Buckle News

The Fourth of July brings certain things every year, such as fireworks, picnics, ants, games, fun -- and increased law enforcement.

Picasso at the Lapin Agile Presented by Boiler Room Theatre Through July 25 at The Factory at Franklin It's been more than a decade since Actors Bridge Ensemble first brought Steve Martin 's Picasso at the Lapin Agile to Nashville theater audiences.

If there was ever an author to breathe life into theatre, it was William Shakespeare-so popular in literary history, it seems iniquitous to not pay homage to his famous works.

Volunteers help kick off the 'Stuff the School Bus' campaign for 2009. From left, front row, are Cub Scouts from Pack 390 Hayden Gunter, Lee Stallings and Bryan Loyd; and Kylee and Ethan Calvert.

Mark Adkison sat cozily on the couch, his arm wrapped lovingly around his wife, Diane.

If you're looking for a nearby spot to get away for the day, the staff of Murfreesboro Magazine heartily recommends Bell Buckle, Tenn., just down the road.

It's not a conversation a mother expects to have with her 17-year-old son. "Have you got your Gatorade?" "Yep." "Did you remember to pack your good shoes to go with your Confederate uniform?" "Yes, Mom." "Don't forget to take the bra." Yes.

Bell Buckle Cafe 15 Railroad Square Bell Buckle 931-389-9693 www.bellbucklecafe.com A guitar hangs on the wall with the words, 'Good Eats!' These simple words - signed by Vince Gill - perfectly describes Bell Buckle Cafe.

In the theater world, it's called "hell week" -- those last few days before opening night, when you wonder if the set is ever going to come together, if that one actor will ever get his lines straight, and when Murphy, and his innumerable laws of what can go wrong, will show up, because you know he's going to.

In groups of a dozen, people of all ages lined a concrete slab with open RC cans on their heads.

They are having a ball in Bell Buckle -- and on Saturday, everyone is welcome to join in the fun at ht RC-Moon Pie Festival.

All events are taken from the Murfreesboro Post Community Calendar, which can be found at www.murfreesboropost.com/mod/comcal . Folkfest The International Street Festival is Friday, June 19, 2009 starting at 5 p.m. on the Square in Downtown Murfreesboro.

Bell Buckle will host the 15th annual RC and Moon Pie Festival Saturday. The event includes a 10-mile run, contests, cloggers, country and bluegrass music and craft booths, not to mention all the Southern fare, with barbecue, lemonade and Moon Pies.

If you're looking for Father's Day fun on the cheap, I have a couple of options for you.

Summer festivals don't come any sweeter than Saturday's annual RC & Moon Pie Festival in little Bell Buckle, Tenn.

The Shelbyville Woman's Club had a humorous and historically-minded speaker at its June meeting Wednesday.

The Bell Buckle Board of Mayor and Aldermen passed the second readings of the amended 2008-09 budget, the 2009-10 anticipated budget, and a property tax hike at the monthly meeting Tuesday night, with only alderwoman, Annie Rooney, voting against the rate increase.

Hunter Roberts, age 3, of Bell Buckle, passed away on June 6, 2009 at Hertiage Medical Center.

The Bard will hold forth for 13 summer nights in the bucolic serenity of charming Bell Buckle later this month.

Starting Wednesday, Murfreesboro will be overrun by HOGs. Not the snorting farm animal, but Harley Davidson HOGs, otherwise known as the Harley Owners Group.