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Penn’s Pens Receives Fiddlers Jamboree “Best of Show” Craft Award (View Video Here)
July 6, 2019
By: Dwayne Page
Fiddler’s Jamboree Director of Crafts Dana Scott today (Saturday) presented the “Best of Show” Award to Dale and Claire Penn of Penn’s Pens in Hendersonville.
Dale, a custom woodcrafter, has been making pens and pencils out of exotic and domestic hardwoods since 1996. Since then, he has started making pens out of different materials, including rifle shells, corn cobs, rattlesnake skin, antler, computer circuit boards and coconut shells. Each pen is handcrafted individually with great care. All pens use standard Parker style or Cross style refills for the ballpoints. Roller ball pens use Zebra, Hauser or Schmidt refills.
Dale makes pencils as well, mostly to go with a pen as a pen and pencil set.
All of the woods that are used are typically exotic woods however some wood that is used is historic in nature. Dale makes pens and pencils out of wood from Jack Daniels aging barrels, Olive wood from the Holy Land as well as wood from the trees lost in the 1998 tornado that hit Nashville and the Hermitage, the home of President Andrew Jackson. These pens from the trees from the Hermitage include Walnut, Cherry, Honey and Tulip Poplar, which is the state tree of TN. All of these historic wood pens come with certificates of authenticity.
For more information visit www.pennspens.com
Jason Long Wins 21st Annual Fiddler 5K (View Videos Here)
July 6, 2019
By: Dwayne Page
A 40 year old man won the 21st annual Fiddler 5K and One Mile Fun Run (this morning) Saturday.
Jason Long ran the course in 18:03 seconds
He was among 414 participants in the race, the second largest number of runners in the history of the Fiddler 5K.
Meanwhile 41 year old Kristen Van Vranken won the race among females. She ran the course in 19:46 seconds and finished 9th overall.
Winners in other categories were:
TOP MALE MASTERS (Age 40 and older): 46 year Fidel Balderas at 18:49 seconds
(Video of Jason Long below crossing finish line)
TOP FEMALE MASTERS (Age 40 and older): 45 year old Tracy Watson at 23:50 seconds
One-Mile Fun Run (age 12 and younger) winners:
(Video of Kristen Van Vranken below crossing finish line)
TOP MALE: 12 year old Brady Adcock at 7:32 seconds
TOP FEMALE: 10 year old Claire Evans at 7:50 seconds
Funds raised will support Habitat for Humanity of DeKalb County.
For complete race results go to https://www.itsyourrace.com/results.aspx?id=7476
“A Step Up “ from Waverly Wins Youth Square Dancing Title at Fiddlers Jamboree (View Videos Here)
July 6, 2019
By: Dwayne Page
“A Step Up “ from Waverly beat out two other teams to win the Youth Square Dancing competition at the Fiddler Jamboree Friday night.
Second Place went to Jackson Hollow of Franklin while Little Texas of Franklin took third place.
A total of eight youth square dance teams competed in the preliminaries.
(Video below is of the Youth Square Dance Winner “A Step Up” from Waverly)
M2U03026 from dwayne page on Vimeo.
Meanwhile the Slim Chance Band of Smyrna won the Old Time Fiddle Band competition to bring the first day of the 48th annual Smithville Fiddlers Jamboree and Crafts Festival to a close Friday night
(View Video Below)
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