LISA DENTON: Barry, we’ve got a long holiday weekend coming up. Do you think we should pace ourselves this week? I’d hate to be tuckered out when I get an extra day to galavant. And there are options aplenty.
We could start with Founders Day at Rock City. To celebrate its 80th anniversary, the attraction is offering 25-cent admission to the first 80 people in line today and sugar cookies and lemonade at a party at 1 p.m. That’s the admission price and the menu they had on opening day.
BARRY COURTER: Party like it’s 1932.
That does sound like fun, and after spending a day of good clean fun with the gnomes, sugar cookies and lemonade, how about spending time with some Bad Company. The boys will be joined by Jimmie Van Zant Band and Confederate Railroad at Thunder on the Rock on Friday and Saturday. Bad Company will be fronted by Brian Howe, who is a great singer in his own right, but Paul Rodgers, in my opinion, has one of the great voices in rock ‘n’ roll.
And, if leather chaps, Harleys and rock and country aren’t your bag, Perpetual Groove is hosting its annual Amberland festival at Cherokee Farms in LaFayette Friday through Sunday. It’s funny, but it occurred to me that there will be a lot of guys with ponytails at both, but that’s about where the comparisons end.